When rising from the bed of death
When rising from the bed of death. Joseph Addison* (1672-1719).
From The Spectator, 513 (18 October 1712). It was signed ‘O’. Other hymns in The Spectator are signed with initials, such as ‘The spacious firmament on high’*, which is signed ‘C’, and ‘How are Thy servants blest, O Lord’, signed ‘O’. These were what JJ called Addison‘s ‘recognised signatures’ (p. 18). The poem in No 513 is described as ‘a Thought in Sickness, and of a very serious Nature’ (‘serious’ at that time meant ‘serious in matters of religion’) from ‘that Excellent Man in Holy Orders, whom I have mentioned more than once as one of that Society who assist me in my Speculations.’ The reflective essay notes the tendency of...
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