MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

SIR RICHARD STEELE.

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"He (Coleridge) valued Steele much above Addison and the other Essayists of that day. Steele's papers are easily distinguished to this day by their pure humanity, springing from the gentleness, the kindness of his heart."-Recollections, Conversations, and Letters of S. T. Coleridge.

"I am far from wishing to depreciate Addison's talents; but I am anxious to do justice to Steele, who was, I think, upon the whole, a less artificial and more original writer."—Hazlitt's Lectures on the Comic Writers, p. 194.

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

SIR RICHARD STEELE,

SOLDIER, DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST, AND PATRIOT,

WITH

HIS CORRESPONDENCE, AND NOTICES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES,

THE WITS AND STATESMEN OF QUEEN ANNE'S TIME.

BY

HENRY R. MONTGOMERY,

AUTHOR OF "THOMAS MOORE: HIS LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CONTEMPORARIES,"
"ISAAC BICKERSTAFF," ETC.

TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

KONINKLI
BIBLIOTHEEK

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM P. NIMMO.

1865.

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