[Footnote 2: Thomas Clayton (see note on p. 72) had set Dryden's Alexanders Feast to music at the request of Steele and John Hughes; but its performance at his house in York Buildings was a failure.

Steele and Addison were taken by his desire to nationalize the opera, and put native music to words that were English and had literature in them.

The coming of Handel and his opera of Rinaldo set Mr. Clayton aside, but the friendship of Steele and Addison abided with him, and Steele seems to have had a share in his enterprises at York Buildings.

The coming of Handel and his opera of Rinaldo set Mr. Clayton aside, but the friendship of Steele and Addison abided with him, and Steele seems to have had a share in his enterprises at York Buildings.

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This is the venture which Steele here backs for his friend with the influence of the Spectator.] * * * *

In Tatlers and Spectators Steele and Addison had been equal contributors to the diffusion of a sense of Milton's genius.

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Steele held under him the office of Gazetteer, to which he was appointed in the following May.

The paper is without signature in first issue or reprint, but the few introductory lines, doubtless, are by Steele.

" THE MARRIAGE IN KAIRWAN By WILBUR DANIEL STEELE From Harper's Kairwan the Holy lay asleep, pent in its thick walls.

When Sir Richard Steele was made a Member of the Commons it was expected from his ingenious writings that he would have been an admirable orator, but it not proving so, De Foe said "He had better have continued the Spectator than the Tatler.

When Sir Richard Steele reminded him of his appointments, Garth immediately pulled out his list, which amounted to fifteenand said, "It's no great matter whether I see them to-night or not, for nine of them have such bad constitutions, that all the physicians in the world can't save them, and the other six have so good constitutions that all the physicians in the world can't kill them.

"Steele, Spect., No. 534.

R115951, 7Aug53, Wilbur Daniel Steele (A) Urkey Island.

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