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What constrast does richard steele make between sir roger de coverley and sir andrew freeport?

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character, devised by Joseph Addison, who portrayed him as the ostensible author of papers and letters that were published in Addison and Richard Steele’s influential periodical The Spectator. As imagined by Addison, Sir Roger was a baronet of Worcestershire and was meant to represent a typical landed country gentleman. He was also a member of the fictitious Spectator Club, and the de Coverley writings included entertaining vignettes of early 18th-century English life that were often considered The Spectator’s best featureThe Spectator (British periodical [1711–1712])

... in London by the essayists Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison from March

1, 1711, to Dec. ... the town (respectively, Sir Andrew Freeport, Captain Sentry,

and Will Honeycomb), and of the country gentry (Sir Roger de Coverley). ... the

periodical throughout the rest of the century and helped to create a receptive

public ...

Sir Roger de Coverley (fictional character)

Sir Roger de Coverley, fictional character, devised by Joseph Addison, who ...

that were published in Addison and Richard Steele's influential periodicalThe Spectator, a periodical published in London by the essayists Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison from March 1, 1711, to Dec. 6, 1712 (appearing daily), and subsequently revived by Addison in 1714 (for 80 numbers). It succeeded The Tatler, which Steele had launched in 1709. In its aim to...