Category: Biographies
The following Tract is an enlargement of the principal portion of an account which I propose to give of POPE, in _Poets and Verse Writers, from Chaucer to Pope: new Facts in their History_--should the public curiosity respecting them call for the publication of what I have col...
The following Tract is an enlargement of the principal portion of an account which I propose to give of POPE, in _Poets and Verse Writers, from Chaucer to Pope: new Facts in the...
2. Part 2This, however, is of value. It shows us that he held not his living long, about fourteen years; that he probably died in middle life; and that his son Alexander, the merchant, c...
3. Part 3William Turner, son of Philip, and nephew and principal heir of Lancelot, is styled by his grandson the Poet, "Esquire." I cannot find that he was ever styled more than "gentlem...
4. Part 4A LETTER TO PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, ESQ., on the Evidence lately given by him before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on a Plan of Publication applicable to the Nati...
5. Part 5William Gylminge died in the year 1591. In his will, dated Jan. 28, 1590-1, he mentions his son James, and his daughters Joan and Christian. The name of his daughter Edith does...
6. Part 6[1] Johnson is probably in the wrong. They are printed as Lady Mary's in the collection entitled _The Poetical Works of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e_. Dublin: 12mo,...
7. Part 7Richard was the testator's son by his first wife, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Collins. Christopher and Henry were the sons of his second wife, Jane Beckwith. According to the pe...