Show gave lesser man his brief how hour of triumph great writers have had bad artistic conscience to a degree that sometimes caused them painful labors in 1708 1706 when joseph addison Add lson the english poet and essayist was waa undersecretary ot of state he was given as a matter of official business the task ot of writing to hanover that queen anne was dead lie ile found it so difficult to express himself satisfactorily that the lords of the regency w were ere obliged to employ southwell at that time one of the th Jel jelderks clerks erks for hours addison had struggled in attempts to draft a sult suit lable message but the lost last one seemed as inadequate as the first and la in despair he cast it after its predecessors into the waste basket southwell stated the simple fact as aa he w was as ordered in the ordinary language of business and it Is said he then boasted of his superiority to ad illson in having readily doner done that which addison attempting to do had bad failed kalls kansas city times |