Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the Spectator (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHRONOLOGY OF ADDISON'S LIFE. 1672. May 1. Birth of Joseph Addison, eldest son of Lancelot Addison and Jane Gulston, at Milston parsonage, Wilts. 1683. Addison removed to Lichfield, on his father becoming dean of the cathedral; placed at Lichfield Grammar School. 1684 or 1685. Entered at the Charter-house. i687. Entered at Queen's College, Oxford; his Latin verses soon after gained for him admission into Magdalen College as a demy. 1693. Took his M.A. degree. Wrote ' Verses to Mr. Dryden': Dryden introduced him to Congreve, through whom he became acquainted with Lord Somers and Charles Montague, then Whig leader in the House of Commons. 1698. Elected full Fellow of Magdalen. 1699. He leaves England with a travelling pension of 300?. a year, obtained through Somers and Montague. Resides at Blois; then at Paris; travels in Italy; makes a long stay at Geneva. 1703. Returns to England-; elected member of the Kit-cat club. 1704. He writes ' The Campaign'; is appointed by Lord Godolphin a commissioner of appeals. Publishes his ' Remarks on several parts of Italy.' 1706. Appointed under-secretary of State under Sir Charles Hedges. 1707. Publishes his opera of' Rosamond.' Accompanies Lord Halifax to Hanover, on the mission of presenting the Act for the naturalization of the Princess Sophia, and investing the Electoral Prince with the order of the Garter. 1709. Appointed in February or March chief secretary for Ireland, under the Marquis of Wharton. Crossed to Ireland in April. Returned in October. Commenced to write for the Taller in May. 1710. Again in Ireland between May and August. On the final fall of the Whig ministry, after the elections in October, Addison loses all his employments. Writes the Whig Examiner in September ...