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S T E E L E (Sir Richard), 1672—1729.

" He ran/{s first among English humourists for geniality without boisterous—
ness, and sentiment withoutl gush.”——George Saintsbury. He excelled as a satirist,
and a storyteller. He had a wide knowledge of the world, and considerable dramatic
shill. Though overshadowed in some measure by his illustrious friend, Addison;
many of his papers equal anything Addison ever wrote.

Sir Richard Steele was born in Dublin in March, 1672, the son of an attorney.
He was educated at the Charter/louse (1684), where Addison was his schoolfellow.
and whence in 1690 he went up to Oxford. At college he dabbled in verse, and in
1695 published ” The Procession,” an elegy on Queen Mary. In 1700 he severely
wounded an Irishman in a duel; and a strange outcome of this was his devotional
manual, ” The Christian Hero ” (1701). In 1707 he was appointed by Harley to
the post of Gazetteer with £300 a year. On 12th April, 1709, appeared the first
number of the tri-wee/(ly “ Tatler,” which was continued until Ianuary, 1711. It
was succeeded by the more famous “ Spectator,” which ceased 6th December, 1712,
and was in its turn followed by the ” Guardian.” In all these enterprises Steele
enjoyed the aid of his old friend Addison. For some time he was engaged in
controversy with Swift. He entered Parliament for Stoc/(bridge, dropping the
” Guardian ” for the professedly political ”Englishman." In 1714 he was im—
peached for seditious utterances in the ” Crisis," and expelled from the House.
Again a member of Parliament and knighted, he continued to produce periodicals
and pamphlets, one of which, “ The Plebeian,” involved him in a painful controversy
with Addison. He was made a patentee of Drury Lane Theatre, where in 1722

he produced ” The Conscious Lovers,” his best comedy. He died 1st September,
1729, at Carmarthen.

 

 

  

STEELE (SIR RICI-IARD)—continved.

2277 THE CRISIS: or, a Discourse representing, from the most
Authentic Records, the just causes of the late Happy Revolution,
etc.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Half morocco.

London, 1714. £2 105

2278 THE ENGLISHMAN: Being the Sequel of the Guardian.
8V0. Fine copy in full contemporary crimson morocco, gold

panel on sides, gilt back, g. e.
London, Printed by Sclfll Buckley, 1714.

2279 THE GUARDIAN.
Engraved title and frontispiece t0 enc/z volume.

2 vols., small 8V0. Original calf.
London, Printed for Incob and Ric/lard Tonson (c. I760).
108 6d

2280 THE LADIES LIBRARY.
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 Mr Good

Mr Knight says he could have con-
vinced you that you are mistaken had you stay'd to hear him, but
desires me to say that he rests upon his integrity and appearance
that no allegations you have made can be proved, or any way affect

him.
Richard Steele

Dec 22d
1720.

 

 

. I believe that this note refers to some dispute arising out
of the South Sea Bubble affair. There was a Robert Knight who
was cashier of the South Sea Co. His son married Henrietta St
John (later Lady Luxborough, friend of Shenstone and Somerville.
In July, 1720, the shares of the company had reached the 1000
mark. In August they began to fall, and by November they were
135. Thousands were ruined.

Steele-warmly combatted the South Sea mania in two pamphlets,

one of which had appeared on February 1, 1720, and the other
on February 27.

(Collection of Uantain F. L. Pleadwell)