It was after the Spectator ceased that Addison published his tragedy called Cato.
With Cato Addison reached the highest point of his fame as an author in his own day, but now we remember him much more as a writer of delightful essays, and as the creator or at least the perfecter of Sir Roger, for to Steele is due the first invention of the worthy knight.
Fortune still smiled on Addison. When George I came to the throne, the Whigs once more returned to power, and Addison again became Secretary for Ireland.
And now, in 1716, when he was already a man of forty-four, Addison married.
But whether Addison was happy in his married life or not, one sorrow he did have.