LITERARY MERIT
As recently as last century, men of letters who had gained distinction were rewarded by the Government of their day with the conferment upon them of minor but well-paid offices of State. William Wordsworth, for example was made stamp distributor for Westmoreland. More fortunate still was Joseph Addison, who held nearly a dozen State appointments between 1699 and his death on June 17, 1719. Addison was a man of diverse gifts. He was a poet, an essayist, journalist, and composer of opera. His greatest monument is the “Spectator,” which he founded in 1711. In this paper, the foundations of all that is sound and healthy "in modern English thought, may readily be traced. As an abstract and brief chronicle of the times it is incomparable, and the name of Sir Roger de Coverley alone, is associated with one of those creations which are instinctively selected as charasteristic of the English genius and language.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 6
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155LITERARY MERIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 6
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