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left the University without taking his degree and became a soldier, while Joseph stayed
many years and became a man of learning
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The
politicians of the day were always on the lookout for clever men, who, by their writings,
would help to sway the people to their way of thinking
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Addison accepted the pension and set out on his travels
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But long before he returned home his friends
had fallen from power and his pension was stopped
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These were the days of the War of the Spanish Succession and of the brilliant victories of
Marlborough of which you have read in the history of the time of Anne
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All England was ringing with the praises of the great General in prose and
verse
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The right person, however, seemed hard
to find, and the laureate of the day, an honest gentleman named Nahum Tate, who could
hardly be called a poet, was quite unable for the task
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And so one morning Addison was surprised in his little garret by a visit
from no less a person than the Chancellor of the Exchequer
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The Chancellor, however,
soon put him at his ease, told him what he had come about, and begged him to undertake
the work
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Addison the utmost spirit and encouragement to begin that poem,
which he afterwards published and entitled The Campaign
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He had now both money and
leisure
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Shy, humorous, courteous, Addison steadily grew popular
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“If he had a mind to be chosen king he would hardly be refused,” said Swift
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But he was too shy ever to make a
speech, and presently he went to Ireland as Secretary of State
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” Now in
Ireland they saw much of [468] each other, and although they were, as Swift himself
says, as different as black and white, they became fast friends
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Swift’s bitter pen was never turned against
his old friend
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In the Journal to Stella we find many entries about this difficulty between the friends,
“Mr

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