Authority Cited: Henley
Author name and dates: John Henley (1692-1756)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge education; prolific grubstreet writer; dissenting minister; eccentric; "Orator Henley"
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: No Henley quotes were identified in the 1755 Dict. One Henley quote was identified as added in the 1773 Dict. One mention of Henley in a Pope citation under bronze: "...tuning his voice and balancing his hands." SJ uses the same Henley couplet cited under clean in his Life of Broome. No published text with the Dict. quote was identified.
Author name and dates: John Henley (1692-1756)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge education; prolific grubstreet writer; dissenting minister; eccentric; "Orator Henley"
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: No Henley quotes were identified in the 1755 Dict. One Henley quote was identified as added in the 1773 Dict. One mention of Henley in a Pope citation under bronze: "...tuning his voice and balancing his hands." SJ uses the same Henley couplet cited under clean in his Life of Broome. No published text with the Dict. quote was identified.
- Henley (no work cited); clean "Pope came off clean with Homer, but they say/Broome went before, and kindly swept the way."