Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3
LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS, VOL. 3 ***
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SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
With an Introductory Essay,
By
THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
IN THREE VOLS.
VOL. III.
CONTENTS.
THIRD PERIOD--FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY To a very young Lady Song
JOHN POMFRET The Choice
THE EARL OF DORSET Song
JOHN PHILIPS The Splendid Shilling
WALSH, GOULD, &c.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH The Dispensary
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE Creation
ELIJAH FENTON An Ode to the Right Hon. John Lord Gower
ROBERT CRAWFORD The Bush aboon Traquair
THOMAS TICKELL To the Earl of Warwick, on the death of Mr Addison
JAMES HAMMOND Elegy XIII
SEWELL, VANBRUGH, &c.
RICHARD SAVAGE The Bastard
THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER An American Love Ode
JONATHAN SWIFT Baucis and Philemon On Poetry On the Death of Dr Swift A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion-Club,1736
ISAAC WATTS Few Happy Matches The Sluggard The Rose A Cradle Hymn Breathing toward the Heavenly Country To the Rev. Mr John Howe
AMBROSE PHILIPS A Fragment of Sappho
WILLIAM HAMILTON The Braes of Yarrow
ALLAN RAMSAY Lochaber no more Tho Last Time I came o'er the Moor From 'The Gentle Shepherd'--Act I., Scene II.
DODSLEY, BROWN, &c
ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Imitation of Thomson Imitation of Pope Imitation of Swift
WILLIAM OLDYS Song, occasioned by a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale
ROBERT LLOYD The Miseries of a Poet's Life
HENRY CAREY Sally in our Alley
DAVID MALLETT William and Margaret The Birks of Invermay
JAMES MERRICK The Chameleon
DR JAMES GRAINGER Ode to Solitude
MICHAEL BRUCE To the Cuckoo Elegy, written in Spring
CHRISTOPHER SMART Song to David
THOMAS CHATTERTON Bristowe Tragedy Minstrel's Song The Story of William Canynge Kenrick February, an Elegy
LORD LYTTELTON From the 'Monody'
JOHN CUNNINGHAM May-eve; or, Kate of Aberdeen
ROBERT FERGUSSON The Farmer's Ingle
DR WALTER HARTE
EDWARD LOVIBOND The Tears of Old May-Day
FRANCIS FAWKES The Brown Jug
JOHN LANGHORNE From 'The Country Justice' Gipsies A Case where Mercy should have mitigated Justice
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse
JOHN SCOTT Ode on hearing the Drum The Tempestuous Evening
ALEXANDER ROSS Woo'd, and Married, and a' The Rock an' the wee pickle Tow
RICHARD GLOVER From 'Leonidas,' Book XII Admiral Hosier's Ghost
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Variety
WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Cumnor Hall The Mariner's Wife
LORD NUGENT Ode to Mankind
JOHN LOGAN The Lovers Written in a Visit to the Country in Autumn Complaint of Nature
THOMAS BLACKLOCK The Author's Picture Ode to Aurora, on Melissa's Birthday
MISS ELLIOT AND MRS COCKBURN The Flowers of the Forest The Same
SIR WILLIAM JONES A Persian Song of Hafiz
SAMUEL BISHOP To Mrs Bishop To the Same
SUSANNA BLAMIRE The Nabob What Ails this Heart o' mine?
JAMES MACPHERSON Ossian's Address to the Sun Desolation of Balclutha Fingal and the Spirit of Loda Address to the Moon Fingal's Spirit-home The Cave
WILLIAM MASON Epitaph on Mrs Mason An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers
JOHN LOWE Mary's Dream
JOSEPH WARTON Ode to Fancy
MISCELLANEOUS Song Verses, copied from the Window of an obscure Lodging-house, in the neighbourhood of London The Old Bachelor Careless Content A Pastoral Ode to a Tobacco-pipe Away! let nought to Love displeasing Richard Bentley's sole Poetical Composition Lines addressed to Pope
INDEX
SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
* * * * *
THIRD PERIOD.
FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.
* * * * *
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY.
Sedley was one of those characters who exert a personal fascination over their own age without leaving any works behind them to perpetuate the charm to posterity. He was the son of Sir John Sedley of Aylesford, in Kent, and was born in 1639. When the Restoration took place he repaired to London, and plunged into all the licence of the time, shedding, however, over the putrid pool the sheen of his wit, manners, and genius. Charles was so delighted with him, that he is said to have asked him whether he had not obtained a patent from Nature to be Apollo's viceroy. He cracked jests, issued lampoons, wrote poems and plays, and, despite some great blunders, was universally admired and loved. When his comedy of 'Bellamira' was acted, the roof fell in, and a few, including the author, were slightly injured. When a parasite told him that the fire of the play had blown up the poet, house and all, Sedley replied, 'No; the play was so heavy that it broke down the house, and buried the poet in his own rubbish.' Latterly he sobered down, entered parliament, attended closely to public business, and became a determined opponent of the arbitrary measures of James II. To this he was stimulated by a personal reason. James had seduced Sedley's daughter, and made her Countess of Dorchester. 'For making my daughter a countess,' the father said, 'I have helped to make his daughter' (Mary, Princess of Orange,) 'a queen.' Sedley, thus talking, acting, and writing, lived on till he was sixty- two years of age. He died in 1701.
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Marc D'Hooghe and the PG Online Distributed Proofreaders
SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
With an Introductory Essay,
By
THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
IN THREE VOLS.
VOL. III.
CONTENTS.
THIRD PERIOD--FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY To a very young Lady Song
JOHN POMFRET The Choice
THE EARL OF DORSET Song
JOHN PHILIPS The Splendid Shilling
WALSH, GOULD, &c.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH The Dispensary
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE Creation
ELIJAH FENTON An Ode to the Right Hon. John Lord Gower
ROBERT CRAWFORD The Bush aboon Traquair
THOMAS TICKELL To the Earl of Warwick, on the death of Mr Addison
JAMES HAMMOND Elegy XIII
SEWELL, VANBRUGH, &c.
RICHARD SAVAGE The Bastard
THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER An American Love Ode
JONATHAN SWIFT Baucis and Philemon On Poetry On the Death of Dr Swift A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion-Club,1736
ISAAC WATTS Few Happy Matches The Sluggard The Rose A Cradle Hymn Breathing toward the Heavenly Country To the Rev. Mr John Howe
AMBROSE PHILIPS A Fragment of Sappho
WILLIAM HAMILTON The Braes of Yarrow
ALLAN RAMSAY Lochaber no more Tho Last Time I came o'er the Moor From 'The Gentle Shepherd'--Act I., Scene II.
DODSLEY, BROWN, &c
ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Imitation of Thomson Imitation of Pope Imitation of Swift
WILLIAM OLDYS Song, occasioned by a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale
ROBERT LLOYD The Miseries of a Poet's Life
HENRY CAREY Sally in our Alley
DAVID MALLETT William and Margaret The Birks of Invermay
JAMES MERRICK The Chameleon
DR JAMES GRAINGER Ode to Solitude
MICHAEL BRUCE To the Cuckoo Elegy, written in Spring
CHRISTOPHER SMART Song to David
THOMAS CHATTERTON Bristowe Tragedy Minstrel's Song The Story of William Canynge Kenrick February, an Elegy
LORD LYTTELTON From the 'Monody'
JOHN CUNNINGHAM May-eve; or, Kate of Aberdeen
ROBERT FERGUSSON The Farmer's Ingle
DR WALTER HARTE
EDWARD LOVIBOND The Tears of Old May-Day
FRANCIS FAWKES The Brown Jug
JOHN LANGHORNE From 'The Country Justice' Gipsies A Case where Mercy should have mitigated Justice
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse
JOHN SCOTT Ode on hearing the Drum The Tempestuous Evening
ALEXANDER ROSS Woo'd, and Married, and a' The Rock an' the wee pickle Tow
RICHARD GLOVER From 'Leonidas,' Book XII Admiral Hosier's Ghost
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Variety
WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Cumnor Hall The Mariner's Wife
LORD NUGENT Ode to Mankind
JOHN LOGAN The Lovers Written in a Visit to the Country in Autumn Complaint of Nature
THOMAS BLACKLOCK The Author's Picture Ode to Aurora, on Melissa's Birthday
MISS ELLIOT AND MRS COCKBURN The Flowers of the Forest The Same
SIR WILLIAM JONES A Persian Song of Hafiz
SAMUEL BISHOP To Mrs Bishop To the Same
SUSANNA BLAMIRE The Nabob What Ails this Heart o' mine?
JAMES MACPHERSON Ossian's Address to the Sun Desolation of Balclutha Fingal and the Spirit of Loda Address to the Moon Fingal's Spirit-home The Cave
WILLIAM MASON Epitaph on Mrs Mason An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers
JOHN LOWE Mary's Dream
JOSEPH WARTON Ode to Fancy
MISCELLANEOUS Song Verses, copied from the Window of an obscure Lodging-house, in the neighbourhood of London The Old Bachelor Careless Content A Pastoral Ode to a Tobacco-pipe Away! let nought to Love displeasing Richard Bentley's sole Poetical Composition Lines addressed to Pope
INDEX
SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
* * * * *
THIRD PERIOD.
FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.
* * * * *
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY.
Sedley was one of those characters who exert a personal fascination over their own age without leaving any works behind them to perpetuate the charm to posterity. He was the son of Sir John Sedley of Aylesford, in Kent, and was born in 1639. When the Restoration took place he repaired to London, and plunged into all the licence of the time, shedding, however, over the putrid pool the sheen of his wit, manners, and genius. Charles was so delighted with him, that he is said to have asked him whether he had not obtained a patent from Nature to be Apollo's viceroy. He cracked jests, issued lampoons, wrote poems and plays, and, despite some great blunders, was universally admired and loved. When his comedy of 'Bellamira' was acted, the roof fell in, and a few, including the author, were slightly injured. When a parasite told him that the fire of the play had blown up the poet, house and all, Sedley replied, 'No; the play was so heavy that it broke down the house, and buried the poet in his own rubbish.' Latterly he sobered down, entered parliament, attended closely to public business, and became a determined opponent of the arbitrary measures of James II. To this he was stimulated by a personal reason. James had seduced Sedley's daughter, and made her Countess of Dorchester. 'For making my daughter a countess,' the father said, 'I have helped to make his daughter' (Mary, Princess of Orange,) 'a queen.' Sedley, thus talking, acting, and writing, lived on till he was sixty- two years of age. He died in 1701.
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