Authority Cited: Melmouth [Melmoth]
Author name and dates: William Melmoth (the younger, 1710-1799)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer’s son; Latin trans.; Fitzosborne Letters; contrib. poetry to Dodsley’s Collection; dislike of SJ in Boswell’s Life
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Melmoth cite in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below. The edition of the title below used by SJ is unknown. There was a 2nd edition in 1748 and a 3rd edition in 1750. The 3rd edition adds additional Letters and the Ode below is in Letter XXXV in this and subsequent editions.]
Letters on several subjects. By the late Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, Bart. : Published from the copies found among his papers, [William Melmoth], 1748, London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mal
1773 Dict.: Rich, though deprived of all her little store,/For who can seize fair virtue's better dow'r?
1748 text: Rich tho' despoiled of all her little store:/For who shall seize fair virtue's better dow'r?
Author name and dates: William Melmoth (the younger, 1710-1799)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer’s son; Latin trans.; Fitzosborne Letters; contrib. poetry to Dodsley’s Collection; dislike of SJ in Boswell’s Life
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Melmoth cite in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below. The edition of the title below used by SJ is unknown. There was a 2nd edition in 1748 and a 3rd edition in 1750. The 3rd edition adds additional Letters and the Ode below is in Letter XXXV in this and subsequent editions.]
Letters on several subjects. By the late Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, Bart. : Published from the copies found among his papers, [William Melmoth], 1748, London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mal
- Letter XXV; Ode for Music, Recitative; dower (cited as Melmoth in Dict.; inexact quote, perhaps from memory. See image of the 1748 Ode below.)
1773 Dict.: Rich, though deprived of all her little store,/For who can seize fair virtue's better dow'r?
1748 text: Rich tho' despoiled of all her little store:/For who shall seize fair virtue's better dow'r?
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