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Authority Cited: Giffard [Gifford]
Author name and dates: Richard Gifford (1725-1807)

BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; theological works; SJ quotes poem: Contemplation; among youngest cited in Dict. 1st ed

Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: Two Gifford cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Gifford cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict.  No author or publication date is given on the title page of the work below, which may explain the Giffard spelling of the citation. The title page has a line from Horace, and a depiction of Cicero. The publication date was April 12, 1753 per Straus's bibliography in Robert Dodsley, 1910.]
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• Contemplation. [Richard Gifford,1753], London: printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row; vicissitude (p.6); wheel (p.6) [BKG Note: the same quote is used for both cites.  The first line in the Dict. reads sweetens vs softens, and for wheel toil becomes care and vicissitude becomes vicissitudes; the second line of the Dict. quotation is different than the Contemplation text, perhaps the quotes were reconstructed from memory. No changes were made to these quotes in the 1773 Dict.]

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Dict. (for vicissitude):                                                                                                     Contemplation text:
   Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound.                                       Verse softens toil, however rude the sound ;
All at her work the village maiden sings ;                                                 She feels no biting pang the while she sings ;
   Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,                                               Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.                   Giffard                          Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.