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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...pencil writ. This elegant compliment has been generally ascribed to Pope: it is here given to Young on the authority of Speucc, who, being the intimate friend of the former poet, would gladly have allowed him tinmerit of it, had there been even a doubt of the authorship at the tiinr he collected his anecdotes. The account which Spence gives (apparently communicated by Young) of the occasion of the distich is very circumstantial: "There was a club held at the King's Head in Pall Mall, that arrogantly callul itself 'The World.' Lord Stanhope, then (now Lord Chesterfield) Ixird Herbert, i-c, &e., were members. Epigrams were proposed to be written on the glasses by each member, after dinner: once, when Dr. Young was invited thither, the Doctor would have declined writing, bemuse he had no diamond: Lord Stunhope lent him his, and he wrote immediately " the distich given Above (Spenoe'a " Anecdotes," IS-'O, 377). AARON HILL, A poet and dramatic writer of some celebrity in his day, was born in London, in 1685. He was of good family, but small fortune. At one time he was manager of the King's Theatre, in the Haymarket, and endeavoured to make money by various speculative schemes, in which he generally failed. He was, however, more successful in matrimony, us he obtained a wife with a considerable fortune. He died in the very minute of the shock of an earthquake, February 8th, 1750. His poetry was much esteemed by Richardson, who wrote the following complimentary epigram ( Select Epigrams," 1797, I. 59): When noble thoughts with language pure unite, To give to kindred excellence its right, Though uneneumber'd with the clogs of rhyme, Where tinkling sounds for want nf meauing chime, Which, like the rocks in Shannon's midway course. Divide...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236212955
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236212959
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 449 gr


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