Authority Cited: Glover
Author name and dates: Richard Glover (1712-1785)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; M.P.; "Admiral Hosier's Ghost" targeted Walpole, quoted in Grammar; founding Governor of the Foundling's Hospital
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Glover cite in the Grammar of the English Tongue in the 1755 Dict. Three Glover cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. word list, indicated in bold italic below. The Preface of the Leonidas title below is signed R. Glover.]
Author name and dates: Richard Glover (1712-1785)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; M.P.; "Admiral Hosier's Ghost" targeted Walpole, quoted in Grammar; founding Governor of the Foundling's Hospital
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Glover cite in the Grammar of the English Tongue in the 1755 Dict. Three Glover cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. word list, indicated in bold italic below. The Preface of the Leonidas title below is signed R. Glover.]
- Admiral Hosier's ghost. To the tune of, Come and listen to my ditty, [1740], London: printed for Mr. Webb, near St. Paul's. The stanza quoted in the Dict. Grammar of the English Tongue is on p. 359 of Yale Vol. 18, Samuel Johnson on the English Language and appears on p.6 of this title.
- Leonidas, A poem. 1737, London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pallmall; eminent (p. 161, added in 1773 Dict.); extent (p. 156, added in 1773 Dict.); stipendiary (p. 167-168, added in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: the edition SJ used appears to be 1763 or earlier, as the 1772 edition moves the stipendiary passage from Book V to Book VIII with revised wording]
- Glover (no work cited)