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The Spectator

IN MINIATURE:

Being a collection of the principal

Religious, Moral, Humorous, Satyrical & Critical Efsays,

contained in that celebrated ed publication Compressed into Two Volumes

STEELE.

LONDON.

Published by W. Suttaby

Crosby & Co and Scatcherd & Letterman.

1808.

Whittingham Printer.

MI

LENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

THE

LIFE

OF

SIR RICHARD STEELE.

Caput domina venalo sub hasta.

JUVENAL.
His fortunes ruin'd, and himself a slave.

RICHARD STEELE, whose father was a counsellor at law, and private secretary to JAMES first Duke of ORMOND, was at an early age carried over from Dublin *, to England; and placed, by the influence of his father's patron, at the Charter House school in London, where he gave proofs of great quickness of apprehension, and made very considerable progress in classical learning. There he become intimate with ADDISON.

STEELE was afterwards removed to Merton College, in Oxford, where he applied himself chiefly to polite literature, discovered an inclination to become a dramatic author, and actually wrote a comedy, which has never been published †.

Steele was born in Dublin about the year 1675; his parents were English, of a good family.

+ Steele showed it to one of his friends, who ad vised him to suppress it, as not worthy of his genius.

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