Authority Cited: Steele
Author name and dates: Richard Steele (1672-1729)
BKG Bio-tweet: Army officer; playwright; loose morals; Tatler: thrice weekly essays on manners 1709-10; sometime friend to Addison
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary);
Author name and dates: Richard Steele (1672-1729)
BKG Bio-tweet: Army officer; playwright; loose morals; Tatler: thrice weekly essays on manners 1709-10; sometime friend to Addison
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary);
- The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. VI. Containing the second part of his letters, London : printed for T. Cooper, in Pater-Noster-Row,. 1739 [BKG Note: the first "official" edition of the letters was 1737, but does not have Trumbull Ltr. VIII (caveat quote). SJ may have quoted from the 1739 or a later edition.]
- Steele to Pope; 1755 Dict.: ruminate (Ltr. I, June 1, 1712)
- The Guardian; 1773 Dict.: box (Number 98) [BKG Note: inexact quote]
- The Spectator; [BKG Note: Steele contributed or edited about half of Addison's Spectator issues. These were generally attributed as "Addison's Spectator" when cited in the 1755 Dict.]
- Steele (no work cited); 1773 Dict.: gazetteer (def.); leave