George A. Aitken

Capitolo 7

from them the smallest sum to their innocent diversions;  I am able
you don't think my pains, or indeed my life, to have been spent in vain."[2]
To the closing, speaking to his/her his/her own name, Steele wrote:  "The general
purpose of the whole one has been to recommend the truth, the innocence, honour and
virtue as the principal ornaments of the life;  but I considered, that gravity
of manners was absolutely necessary to him who would blame others, and
for that reason, and that only it chose to speak to a mask. I am not able
hands my humility till now as a vicious man to call, but to the
the same time has to confess my life it is better to but pardonable."[3]

With generosity usual his, Steele more than once he/she spoke to the more heat
terms of the assistance made to him from Addison. In the preface to
the picked edition that he has said:  "I only have a gentleman that will be
anonymous, to thank for some frequent assistance to me, what indeed it
you/he/she would have been Barbaric him to have denied to one with whom he had
lived in an intimacy by the infancy, in consideration of the great ease with
what he is able to send the most amusing pieces of this
nature. This good office that he has completed with such strength of genius humour,,
intelligence, and learning that I went as a suffering prince in that he/she calls a
powerful neighbour to his/her help;  I was suppressed the effect of a change by my assistant;  when I had
calls him/it in me you/he/she could not take nourishment without dependence on him." And in
1722, after the death of Addison, in a preface to the play of his/her friend "The
Drummer", Steele wrote of the _Tatler_ "That paper has been advanced indeed!
for him was elevated to a greater thing that me the understood ones! For the
elegance, purity and correctness that appeared in its writings were
not so a lot my purpose, as (in some intelligible way, as I was able) to
reunion all those singleness of the human life, through the different one
professions and characters in him, what they obstruct anything that really it was