Excerpt from The Vision of Mirzah Joseph Addison was born May 1st, 1672, at Milston, near Ambresbury, Wiltshire, England. His father, the Reverend Launcelot Addison, was Dean of Litchfield. He received his early education at schools in the vicinity of his home and afterward was sent to Charterhouse, where the memorable intimacy between him and Steele first began. At the early age of fifteen he entered Queen's College, Oxford, and when he had been there about two years, his remarkable skill in Latin verse procured him a demyship at Magdalen. He obtained his degree of Master of Arts in 1693 and a fellowship five years later. During his university career Addison devoted himself to the study of the Latin poets and at that time he had some idea of making poetry his life work. It was through his verse that he attracted the attention of Lord Somers and Charles Montagu, whose influence secured for him a pension of 300 pounds a year from the Crown to enable him to travel abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.