Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… that others strived to emulate in the eighteenth century. He served as a role model. By the early 1760s, the young James Boswell could jest with his friends about their mutual desire to resemble Addison and Boswell confided to his journal that he ‘felt strong dispositions to be a Mr. Addison.’ 5 Addison extolled the virtues … friendship and conversation of a few select companions’, he declared ( The Spectator , n° 15, 17 March 1711). 5 . James Boswell, London Journal 1762-1763, ed. Gordon Turnbull (London: Penguin, 2010), p. 22, 23; Lawrence Klein, ‘Addisonian …
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