“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”
About Joseph Addison
1 May 1672–17 June 1719
Joseph Addison, born on 1 May 1672 at Milston in Wiltshire and dead on 17 June 1719 at Holland House in Kensington, was one of the central makers of modern English prose. Poet, critic, dramatist, journalist, civil servant, parliamentarian, and Whig public intellectual, he achieved an influence out of proportion to the…