age ~68
from Fyffe, AL
Sir Roger de Coverly is a Tory of the old, old school. A country gentleman, seeming wise and seeming fool, he steps out of the text of The Spectator as one of Addison and Steele’s most memorable recurring characters. The early 18th-century prose here is wonderful, of course. The tale of Sir Roger’s ...
Author
Joseph Addison
Binding
Paperback
Pages
52
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1540652947
EAN Code
9781540652942
ISBN #
8
The Spectator as instrumental in the formation of the public sphere in 18th century England. Although The Spectator declares itself to be politically neutral, it was widely recognized as promoting Whig values and interests. The Spectator continued to be popular and widely read in the late 18th and 1...
Author
Joseph Addison
Binding
Paperback
Pages
472
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1540653110
EAN Code
9781540653116
ISBN #
7
"A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage." -Joseph Addison, Cato 1713 Joseph Addison was born in 1672 in Milston, Wiltshire, England. He was educated in the classics at Oxford and became widely known as an essayist, playwright, poet, and statesman. First produced in ...
Author
Joseph Addison, Christine Dunn Henderson, Mark E. Yellin, Forrest McDonald
Binding
Paperback
Pages
308
Publisher
Liberty Fund
ISBN #
0865974438
EAN Code
9780865974432
ISBN #
6
Mr. Spectator doesn’t speak much. He prefers to communicate by contorting his face and extensively recording his thoughts in his newsletter. Through the first three volumes of this eight volume set, which consists of over five hundred separate issues, introduce the taciturn narrator and the “Spectat...
Author
Joseph Addison, RIchard Steele
Binding
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Some Good Press
ISBN #
5
JOSEPH ADDISON 1672-1719 divided his energies between literature and politics. He was educated at the Charterhouse and at Oxford with a view to holy orders, but the Earl of Halifax saw in him valuable political material, obtained for him a pension, and sent him abroad to prepare for a diplomatic car...
Author
Joseph Addison
Binding
Paperback
Pages
84
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1477527931
EAN Code
9781477527931
ISBN #
3
When Richard Steele, in number 555 of his ‘Spectator’, signed its last paper and named those who had most helped him ‘to keep up the spirit of so long and approved a performance,’ he gave chief honour to one who had on his page, as in his heart, no name but Friend. This was ‘the gentleman of whose a...
Author
Joseph Addison
Binding
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Library of Alexandria
ISBN #
10
The tragedy Cato was written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and recounts the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, a Stoic who was always resistant to Julius Caesar’s tyranny and an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty. The main themes of the play are individual liberty versus government tyra...
Author
Joseph Addison
Binding
Paperback
Pages
68
Publisher
Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN #
3849693090
EAN Code
9783849693091
ISBN #
9
Designed to be light in tone but heavy in influence, essays published in two 18th-century publications THE TATLER and THE SPECTATOR examined everything from conduct and morals to phiolosophy, politics, science, and literature. These selections from the two papers illuminate the lives and thoughts of...
Author
Joseph Addison, Richard Steele
Binding
Paperback
Pages
592
Publisher
Penguin Classics
ISBN #
0140432981
EAN Code
9780140432985
ISBN #
2
…lf-love, love of our neighbour, and love of virtue; writing it in good and bad Latin, and good and bad French. He has also left many translations of classic works, among them, Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man", Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas", Joseph Addison's "Cato", Edward Young's "Night Thought...
…During Pope's friendship with Joseph Addison, he contributed to Addison's play Cato, as well as writing for The Guardian and The Spectator. Around this time he began the work of translating the Iliad, which was a painstaking process publication began in 1715 and did not end until 1720.[4]&h...
…ions, with Miscellaneous Poems (1810), and her only work of fiction, Lorimer, a Tale (1814). She also was well-remembered for her biographical works: Memoir of John Aikin, MD (1823), The Works of Anna Laetita Barbauld (1825), The Life of Anne Boleyn (1827), and The Life of Joseph Addison (18...
Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison ...
Jan 2, 2011 ... Joseph Addison (1672-05-01 1719-06-17) was an English politician and writer. His name is often remembered in tandem with that of his ...