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Excerpt from Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer,& Idler, Vol. 2 of 2
Qwilk, and of his poems in this work the following catalogue has betn given by Mr. Duncombe. Fan 1746, the Devil Painter, atale; the Chaise Per cee; Epistle to the King of Prussia; Lines to the! Rev. Mr. Layng: and to Dr. Warburton, ggi'i' a series of theological inquiries; a Thought from Marcus Antoniu'us, and. The Smart. F or. The Accident;. Ants' Philosophy; Death 1 of Arachne; Chamont and Honorius; Origin of Doubt; Life, an Ode; Lines to Hope; Winter, an Ode; and the Experiment, 'a_ Tale. Fod 1748, the Midsummer Wish; Solitude; the Two; Doves, 8. Fable, and Autumn, Fol: 1749, povcr ty Insulted; Region allotted to oldmaids; the. Nymph at her Toilet God is.l0ve, and Chloe's, Soliloquy. I 1 Several of these little productions, the ocean sioual amusement of his leisure, are elegant and. Pleasing; but, like Johnson, the. Powers of his, imagination are in a much higher degree displayed inhisprosethaninhisverse. The domestic circumstances of our author, a.f this period, are little known; and it is remarkable, . That not oneof his relatigns, or literary friends, has thought it necessary, topreserve or mcord the. Events of his lites, His pecuniary ing his early corrugation with the Gentleman's Ma gesine, are supposed to have been very confineds.5 l'rrrira'r'y life or 1m. Hawkesworth.
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