Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… rather a mute. When he began to be in company, he was all so himself, or he went on in a noble stream of thoughts and language, and all the company were fixed in hearing him’. 6 6 . Joseph Spence, Observations, Anecdotes and Characters of … that heterosociability was a hallmark of polite culture. 7 7 . Brian Cowan, ‘Reasonable Ecstasies: Shaftesbury and the Languages of Libertinism’, Journal of British Studies (37:2, April 1998), p. 111-138. Addison’s ideal of polite …
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