Addison

by William John Courthope

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Edited by John Morley.

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Milton		Mark Pattison.
Hawthorne		Henry James, Jr.
Southey		E. Dowden.
Chaucer		A. W. Ward.
Bunyan		J. A. Froude.
Cowper		Goldwin Smith.
Pope		Leslie Stephen.
Byron		John Nichol.
Locke		Thomas Fowler.
Wordsworth		F. Myers.
Dryden		G. Saintsbury.
Landor		Sidney Colvin.
De Quincey		David Masson.
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Sterne		H. D. Traill.
Macaulay		J. Cotter Morison.
Fielding		Austin Dobson.
Sheridan		Mrs. Oliphant.
Addison		W. J. Courthope.
Bacon		R. W. Church.
Coleridge		H. D. Traill.
Sir Philip Sidney		J. A. Symonds.
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CONTENTS.

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[CHAPTER I.]
The State of English Society and Letters after the Restoration	[1]
[CHAPTER II.]
Addison’s Family and Education	[21]
[CHAPTER III.]
Addison on His Travels	[38]
[CHAPTER IV.]
His Employment in Affairs of State	[53]
[CHAPTER V.]
The “Tatler” and “Spectator”	[78]
[CHAPTER VI.]
“Cato”	[110]
[CHAPTER VII.]
Addison’s Quarrel with Pope	[125]
[CHAPTER VIII.]
The Last Years of His Life	[139]
[CHAPTER IX.]
The Genius of Addison	[153]