Word: addison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cornish c Addison...
Second Basses: Dwinell, Ross, Addison, Worden, Edwards, Palfrey, and Sanford...
...public. The first number appeared in April 1709, in it being shown the scope and purpose of the paper. It was to be issued Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week, being started and run entirely by Steele who in connection with it, assumed the name of Isaac Bickerstaff. Addison detected the hand of Steele in one of the first issues and offered his services, contributing first in the eighteenth number. His appearance made a change in the character of the paper. Politics disappeared and the essay took its place. It must be remembered, however, that the success...
Soon there were political troubles; Steele lost the position of Gazetteer and Addison his favor at court. They then started the Spectator, which was to be issued daily. It was very different from the Tatler, as it excluded politics and was in no way a newspaper. The first number appeared in 1711 and continued for somewhat over a year with great success. Steele created the Spectator Club, and among other characters that of Sir Roger de Coverley. Steele had much the greater facility at the invention of incident and character, while Addison could tone these down and get them...
Soon there came more political troubles, and Addison in the height of his fame in 1716, married a rich countess, probably unhappily. Later he lost the friendship of Steele, and before his death in 1719 was entirely estranged from him. Mr. Black closed his lecture by a short and interesting sketch of the characters...