Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has 1769 edition of “Miscellaneous works in verse and prose, of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, esq” by Joseph Addison

Added at 05:49 on 17 June 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1769 edition of “Miscellaneous works in verse and prose, of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, esq” by English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician Joseph Addison, who died #OnThisDay 17 June 1719. He was a contributor to the Tatler magazine, co-founded The Spectator magazine, and assisted with The Guardian. He was the originator of the quote, "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body" (in Issue 147 of the Tatler). His breezy, conversational style of his essays later prompted Bishop Richard Hurd to reprove Addison for what he called an "Addisonian Termination", or preposition stranding, a grammatical construction that ends a sentence with a preposition.

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