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an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator. Steele's first published work, The Christian Hero (1701), attempted to point out the differences between perceived and actual masculinity. Written while Steele served in the army, it expressed his idea of a pamphlet of moral instruction. The Christian Hero was ultimately ridiculed for what some thought was hypocrisy because Steele did not necessarily follow his own preaching. He was criticized for publishing a booklet about morals when he himself enjoyed drinking, occasional dueling, and debauchery around town.
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04/23/1705-Richard Steele's Tender Husband premieres in London
01/19/1714-Richard Steele publishes The Crisis, defending Hanoverian success
11/07/1722-Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers premieres in London
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Commode: As an adjective: convenient, suitable. Used in the 17th century. Via French from Latin com, together + modu...
Quidnunc: (1) An inquisitive person; one that is constantly inquiring Quid nunc? (Latin: What now?) (2) A curiosity, ...
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Joseph Addison
...remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine....
Thomas Cooke
...Thomas Tickell, Ambrose Philips, Leonard Welsted, Richard Steele, and John Defnnis, and Cooke is the source of one...
Richard Savage
...printed 1719), which gained him the friendship of Sir Richard Steele, who became his first patron.
Thomas Tickell
...an under-secretaryship of state, to the chagrin of Richard Steele, who from then on bore a grudge against Tickell....
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A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
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