Authority Cited: Halifax
Author name and dates: Charles Montague (1651-1715) earl of Halifax
BKG Bio-tweet: Author; poet; patron; collaborated with Prior; high political offices; friend of Newton; SJ in Lives not impressed by poetry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary):
The works of the most celebrated minor poets. Namely, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon; Charles, Earl of Dorset; Charles, Earl of Halifax; Sir Samuel Garth; George Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq. Never before collected and publish'd together. In two volumes. 1749, London : Printed for F. Cogan at the Middle Temple Gate; [BKG Note: per Reddick, in The making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), the copy marked by SJ was in the Hyde Collection, presumably now at Harvard. J.D. Fleeman, in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, 1975, U. of Victoria, indicates that this copy may be only V.1, and only annotated by SJ for Garth, and not the other poets. The 1959 Pierpont Morgan Library Samuel Johnson exhibition, item 113, also says this is only Vol. 1, but says Dorset and Halifax were also annotated in this volume. (Halifax is in V.1.) The page citations below are to this title.] OR The Works and Life of the Right Honourable Charles, Late Earl of Halifax. Including the History of his Lordship’s Times. 1715, London: Printed for E. Curll, J. Pemberton and J. Hooke [BKG Note: the Ode on the marriage of the princess Anne and prince George of Denmark was not located in this title.]
Author name and dates: Charles Montague (1651-1715) earl of Halifax
BKG Bio-tweet: Author; poet; patron; collaborated with Prior; high political offices; friend of Newton; SJ in Lives not impressed by poetry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary):
The works of the most celebrated minor poets. Namely, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon; Charles, Earl of Dorset; Charles, Earl of Halifax; Sir Samuel Garth; George Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq. Never before collected and publish'd together. In two volumes. 1749, London : Printed for F. Cogan at the Middle Temple Gate; [BKG Note: per Reddick, in The making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), the copy marked by SJ was in the Hyde Collection, presumably now at Harvard. J.D. Fleeman, in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, 1975, U. of Victoria, indicates that this copy may be only V.1, and only annotated by SJ for Garth, and not the other poets. The 1959 Pierpont Morgan Library Samuel Johnson exhibition, item 113, also says this is only Vol. 1, but says Dorset and Halifax were also annotated in this volume. (Halifax is in V.1.) The page citations below are to this title.] OR The Works and Life of the Right Honourable Charles, Late Earl of Halifax. Including the History of his Lordship’s Times. 1715, London: Printed for E. Curll, J. Pemberton and J. Hooke [BKG Note: the Ode on the marriage of the princess Anne and prince George of Denmark was not located in this title.]
- ON THE DEATH of His Most Sacred Majesty King CHARLES II; darling (p.146); ebb (p.147); flux (p.145); less (p.146);
- ODE On the marriage of the princess ANNE and prince GEORGE of Denmark; daringly (p.150); submission (p.149);
- THE MAN of HONOUR; Occasioned by a Postscript to PENN'S Letter; nice (p.152);
- An Epistle to CHARLES earl of Dorset, occasioned by His Majesty's victory in Ireland; deliverer (p.156); furnish (p.160); put (p.161); see (p.157)
- Halifax (no work cited);