Q: I shall endeavour to enlighten morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality". Who made this endeavour?
a) Richard Steele
b) Joseph Addison
c) Edward Gibbon
d) Daniel Defoe
Correct answer: b) Joseph Addison
English Literature MCQs with Explanation
The Spectator by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison was born in 1672, in Milston, Wiltshire UK. His father was a clergyman and he grow up in a scholarly family, clergyman. He was one of the most charming English Essayists. He is considered to be the founder of modern English Essayists. Joseph Addison is a great writer in the eighteenth century. He wrote the most famous essay "Uses of the Spectator" was published on 12 March 1711. In this essay, The Spectator, Joseph Addison, intended to moralise in a witty manner and amuse or divert in a moral tone. He had cleared moral intentions behind the writing of the essay for the Spectator. It aimed at social reformation and an important in the manners and morals of the people of that age.
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