The Life of Richard Steele, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life of Richard Steele, Vol. 2 of 2

To make a pair of jolly fellows, The son and father, join to tell us How sons may safely disobey, 'and fathers never Should say nay By which wise conduct they grow friends 'at last - and so the story ends.' But now the senate must feel his eloquence and fire, though this might be disturbed by a petition.

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Excerpt from The Life of Richard Steele, Vol. 2 of 2

With the opening of the new year we are at once into political strife. Steele's forthcoming pamphlet, the Crisis, had been advertised frequently in the Englishman; on the 22nd October subscriptions were invited, and after announcements from time to time of the book being in the press, it was stated on the 26th December that, at the desire of several ladies of quality, the publication was put off till the female world had expressed their zeal for the public by a subscription as large as that made by the other sex. A few days afterwards Swift printed as a quarto pamphlet The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased; and Addressed to Richard St - le, Esq., 1 in which he ridiculed the forthcoming Crisis and Steele's share in the politics of the day in his favourite octosyllabics.

"Thou pompously wilt let us know
What all the world knew long ago,"

that the Queen must be succeeded by a German prince, and that leagues were being formed portending ruin to the State.

"Believe me, what thou'st undertaken
May bring in jeopardy thy bacon;
For madmen, children, wits, and fools
Should never meddle with edged tools."

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.