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De Coverley Papers, by Joseph Addison and Others
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Title: The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator'
Author: Joseph Addison and Others
Editor: Joseph H. Meek
Release Date: February 22, 2007 [EBook #20648]
Language: English
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The KINGS TREASURIES OF LITERATURE
GENERAL EDITOR
SIR A. T. QUILLER COUCH
LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD
[Illustration: J. Addison.]
THE DE COVERLEY PAPERS FROM 'THE SPECTATOR'
EDITED BY JOSEPH MEEK M.A.
All rights reserved by J. M. DENT & SONS LTD Aldine House · Bedford Street · London Made in Great Britain at The Aldine Press · Letchworth · Herts First published in this edition 1920 Last reprinted 1955
INTRODUCTION
No character in our literature, not even Mr. Pickwick, has more endeared himself to successive generations of readers than Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley: there are many figures in drama and fiction of whom we feel that they are in a way personal friends of our own, that once introduced to us they r