Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… to temper wit with morality’ ( The Spectator, n° 10, 12 March 1711). Tempering savage wit was key to Addison’s polite reformation of manners. He sought to restrain the impulse towards vicious satire that had been characteristic of …
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