Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… to Parliament in 1715 and began The Englishman , another periodical with a sharp political edge attacking Tory leaders Robert Harley (now earl of Oxford) and the duke of Ormond. In 1719 Steele even fell out with his former close associate, …
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