This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...with, is Rhenish wine. This they have in such prodigious quantities that there is no sensible diminution of it, tho' Mr. Perrot and myself have been among 'em above a week." In May he was still at Hamburg, and refusing an offer of 100 a year from the Duke of Somerset as salary for travelling with his son Algernon, Earl of Hertford, aged nineteen. In September, 1703, Addison, then thirty-one years old, was at the Hague, whence he wrote to a friend, "At my first arrival I received the melancholy news of my father's death, and ever since have been engaged in so much noise and company that it was impossible for me to think of rhyming in it." Then it was that he came to London. The little money that his father left him enabled him to pay, at last, his college debts, and he took poor lodgings in the Haymarket, not doubtfully expecting fortune. He had ripened ability and a just claim on the political party that had tempted him out of the family profession for which he was born and bred. Joseph Addison once back in London, Steele was again with living enthusiasm by his side. He found that his friend had become Captain Steele, had uttered his religious mind in print, was in high credit as the author of a witty comedy, and was then writing another. How had Richard Steele begun life 1 His interest in men and women had caused him to write comedy when at college. A college friend, Richard See in this Library " Shorter English Poems," pages 349, SM. Parker, thought ill of it, and Steele destroyed it. With his interest in life, there was in Steele a sense of the immense gain to the country by the settlement of the Revolution, that idealised for him William III. as a king faithful in its maintenance, and gave him a...