Authority Cited: Richards; N. Richards
Author name and dates: Nathanael Richards (fl. 1630-1660)
BKG Bio-tweet: Dramatist: tragedy of Messalina; sacred poem: Celestial Publican; SJ cites (unstaid, worldly) in 1st but not 4th ed.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Richards cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. These do not appear in the 1773 Dict. One Richards cite was identified as added to vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.
Poems Sacred and Satyricall by Nathanael Richards, 1641, Printed at London by T. Paine, for H. Blunden at the Castle in Cornehill.
Author name and dates: Nathanael Richards (fl. 1630-1660)
BKG Bio-tweet: Dramatist: tragedy of Messalina; sacred poem: Celestial Publican; SJ cites (unstaid, worldly) in 1st but not 4th ed.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Richards cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. These do not appear in the 1773 Dict. One Richards cite was identified as added to vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.
Poems Sacred and Satyricall by Nathanael Richards, 1641, Printed at London by T. Paine, for H. Blunden at the Castle in Cornehill.
- Mans Miserie; unstaid [BKG Note: inexact quote.]
- Sinnes Impudence; (worldly) [BKG Note: inexact quote, apparently from memory. The text reads "temporal joyes" rather than "worldly pleasures."]
- Richards, N. (no work cited); offence [BKG Note: the 1773 Dict. quote for offence was not found in any Nathanael Richards title. The 1773 Dict. quote is: I have equal skills in all the weapons of offence." This appears to be a typesetter's error. SJ appears to have referred to Samuel Richardson, by the abbreviation "Richards." There is a similar passage at the end of Clarissa Harlowe, in a letter written by Lovelace before his death in a duel. The Richardson text reads: ". . . one weapon was as good as another, throughout all the instruments of offence." An inexact quote from Richardson, likely from memory.]