The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III.Cibber, Theophilus
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III.
Cibber, Theophilus
Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Poets, Irish -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
A Poem on the last Promotion of several eminent Persons in Church and
State; written in the year 1694, fol. dedicated in Verse to the Right
Hon. Charles Earl of Middlesex, &c. These are all printed under the
title of Funeral Poems on her late Majesty of blessed memory, &c. 8vo,
1700.
Miscellanea Sacra; or Poems on Divine and Moral Subjects, collected by
Mr. Tate. He also gave the public a great many translations from Ovid,
Horace, Juvenal, Virgil.
His song on his Majesty's birth-day has the following stanza,
When Kings that make the public good their care
Advance in dignity and state,
Their rise no envy can create;
Their subjects in the princely grandeur share:
For, like the sun, the higher they ascend,
The farther their indulgent beams extend.
Yet long before our royal sun
His destin'd course has run,
We're bless'd to see a glorious heir,
That shall the mighty loss repair;
When he that blazes now shall this low sphere resign
In a sublimer orb eternally to shine.
A Cynthia too, adorn'd with every grace
Of person and of mind;
And happy in a starry race,
Of that auspicious kind,
As joyfully presage,
No want of royal heirs in any future age.
CHORUS.
Honour'd with the best of Kings,
And a set of lovely springs,
From the royal fountain flowing,
Lovely streams, and ever growing,
Happy Britain past expressing,
Only learn to prize thy blessing.
We shall give some further account of the translation of the Psalms in
the life of Dr. Brady. This author died in the Mint 1716, was interred
in St. George's church, Southwark, and was succeeded in the laurel by
Mr. Eusden.
* * * * *
Sir SAMUEL GARTH.
This gentleman was descended from a good family in Yorkshire; after he
had passed through his school education, he was removed to Peter-house
in Cambridge, where he is said to have continued till he was created Dr.
of Physic July 7, 1691[1].
In 1696 Dr. Garth zealously promoted the erecting the Dispensary, being
an apartment, in the college for the relief of the sick poor, by giving
them advice gratis, and dispensing medicines to them at low rates. This
work of charity having exposed him, and many other of the most eminent
Physicians to the envy and resentment of several persons of the same
faculty, as well as Apothecaries, he ridiculed them with peculiar
spirit, and vivacity, in his poem called the Dispensary in 6 Cantos;
which, though it first stole into the world a little hastily, and
incorrect, in the year 1669, yet bore in a few months three impressions,
and was afterwards printed several times, with a dedication to Anthony
Henley, esquire. This poem, gained our author great reputation; it is
of the burlesque species, and executed with a degree of humour, hardly
equal'd, unless in the Rape of the Lock.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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