LIVES

OF THE

ENGLISH POETS.

L I VES

OF THE

MOST EMINENT

ENGLISH POETS,

WITH

CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORKS.

BY SAMUEL JOHNSON.

WITH NOTES CORRECTIVE AND EXPLANATORY,

BY PETER CUNNINGHAM, F.S.A.

IN THREE VOLUMES.– Vol. II.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1854.

The Proprietor of the Copyright of this work reserves to himself the right

of Translation in Foreign Countries.

231667-B.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

.

JOHN POMFRET.-1667-1703.

Born at Luton in Bedfordshire - Educated at Cambridge — Rector of Malden

- Publishes The Choice'- Marries — Death and Character.

Page 3

EARL OF DORSET.-1637-8–1705-6.

Birth and Parentage - Educated under a Private Tutor - Represents East

Grinstead in the Restoration Parliament - His Early Dissipation - His

Valour and Gaiety — Writes a famous Ballad at Sea, ‘To all you ladies now

at land' - Created Earl of Middlesex Succeeds his Father as Earl of

Dorset - Sides with the Prince of Orange against James II. — Twice Mar-

ried — His Patronage of Poets — Death at Bath, and Burial at Wythiam 7

GEORGE STEPNEY.-1663–1707.

Born at Westminster – Educated at Cambridge — His Political Employments

-Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey – Works and Character 15

JOHN PHILIPS.–1676-1708.

Born at Bampton in Oxfordshire – Educated at Winchester and Oxford — Pub-

lishes “The Splendid Shilling,' • Blenheim,' and 'Cider'– Burial in Hereford

Cathedral - Monument in Westminster Abbey- Works and Character. 21

WILLIAM WALSH.–1663–1707-8.

Born at Abberley in Worcestershire - Educated at Oxford — Dryden's high

Character of him -- His early Encouragement Buried at Abberley -

Works and Character

35

EDMUND SMITH.-1668–1710.

Born at Handley in Worcestershire - Educated at Westminster and Oxford

His Character by Oldisworth — Excels in Latin Verse — His loose life and

slovenly habits — His Tragedy of Phædra and Hippolitus'— Buried at Hart.

ham in Wiltshire – Works and Character — Gilbert Walmsley

41

RICHARD DUKE.-1668 ?-1710-11.

Born at Westminster -- Educated at Cambridge - Friendship with Otway

Contributes to Dryden's Ovid' and 'Juvenal' – Vicar of Witney

Death

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