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Addison

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Ad·di·son  (d-sn)
A village of northeast Illinois, a residential and industrial suburb of Chicago. Population: 37,000.
Addison, Joseph 1672-1719.
English essayist whose witty and elegant works appeared in The Tatler, founded by Richard Steele in 1709, and The Spectator, founded by Addison and Steele in 1711.
Addi·soni·an (-sn-n) adj.


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Difficulties, improbabilities, nay, impossibilities, are quite overlooked by it; so that to any man extremely in love, may be applied what Addison says of Caesar,
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Spectator' then, and was constantly in the company of Addison, and Steele, and Swift, and Pope, and all the wits at Will's, who are presented evanescently in the romance.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
Addison Porter, the secretary to the President, and explained to him my mission.
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