. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . n! >i Y, Q S O |1 5 -J *J D i2 >. 5 K -°c2 c- .ti ,- w ra rt (/J r; — o ^-. &. C5 r.^. w 5 J >? _c o e o o Si ii w u u e3 i^ O e; _U I I JOSEPH ADDISON (16721719) was the son of Lancelot Addison, Dean of Lichfield, a man of someliterary eminence. He was educated at Charterhouse, where thefoundation of his almost life-long friendship with Steele was laid, andat Queens College, Oxford, whence he passed to Magdalen as ademy in 1689. He gained a Fellowship in 1697, and at about thesame time won the favour of Charles Montagu, aft
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . n! >i Y, Q S O |1 5 -J *J D i2 >. 5 K -°c2 c- .ti ,- w ra rt (/J r; — o ^-. &. C5 r.^. w 5 J >? _c o e o o Si ii w u u e3 i^ O e; _U I I JOSEPH ADDISON (16721719) was the son of Lancelot Addison, Dean of Lichfield, a man of someliterary eminence. He was educated at Charterhouse, where thefoundation of his almost life-long friendship with Steele was laid, andat Queens College, Oxford, whence he passed to Magdalen as ademy in 1689. He gained a Fellowship in 1697, and at about thesame time won the favour of Charles Montagu, afterwards Earlof Halifax, who procured for him a pension of -^300 a year fromthe Crown. As a scholar, Addison won a considerable knowledge of Latin literature was extensive, and he wrote Latinverses with an ease and skill which earned him the praise of sosevere a critic as Boileau. From 1699-1703 he travelled on theContinent, his Italian tour rousing his classical enthusiasm to thehighest pitch. On his return he obtained through Halifax acommission from Godolphin to celebrate the victory of Blenheim,which he did in a poem entitled T
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