![]() ![]() He started in 1699, spent a year and a half in France, a year in Italy, and another in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany and after a stay of some months in Holland, he returned to England toward the end of 1703. While he was still at Oxford, where he remained on a fellowship after his graduation, he was on the point of taking orders, but a royal pension was obtained for him, and he set forth on his travels on the Continent. Through Dryden, to whom he addressed some complimentary verses, he was introduced to Tonson, who set him to work translating Juvenal, Persius, Virgil, and Heredotus. In the year of his graduation he published his Account of the Greatest English Poets. He distinguished himself while at college for his shyness and his scholarship. After two years he was transferred to Magdalen, where he was graduated in 1693. He was a student at the Charter House, which he left in 1687, to enter Queen's College, Oxford. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.JOSEPH ADDISON was born at Milston, Wiltshire, in 1672. ![]() Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. ![]()
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