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. The Ode below is in Letter XXV in the 1748 edition. A vol. 2 was issued in 1749.]
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. The Ode below is in Letter XXV in the 1748 edition. A vol. 2 was issued in 1749.]
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 Melmouth 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?