Authority Cited: Waller’s Life (Life of Waller)
Author name and dates: Whether SJ used Biographia Britannica or Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions for the Dict. the most likely author of the quote is Francis Atterbury (1662-1732)
BKG Bio-tweet: See Atterbury entry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Waller's Life cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Waller's Life cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Whether SJ used Biographia Britannica or Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions for the Dict. the most likely author of the quote is Francis Atterbury (1662-1732)
BKG Bio-tweet: See Atterbury entry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Waller's Life cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Waller's Life cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
- Waller’s Life; Biographia Britannica: or, the lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down . . . , 1747, London, Volume 6 of 7; pp, 4099-4115. [Ed. William Oldys?]; repeat (quote under repeat is on p. 4112: ". . . repeated some verses out of Virgil, suitable to the occasion..."); or Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons. By Edmond Waller, Esq, 1722, London: printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Katharine Street in the Strand; repeat (quote under repeat is on p. LVI: "... repeated some admirable verses out of Virgil, suitable to the occasion... "; Dict. quote: "lines," rather than "verses" in both sources). [BKG Note: I found nothing similar in Cibber's Lives of the Poets, 1753. Biographia Britannica gives the 1711 Life as a source] Both Biographia Britannica and the 1711 Poems Life are cited as sources for the SJ 1779 "Life of Waller" in Lives, Yale Vol. 21, p. 261. SJ paraphrases this quotation on p. 295 of Yale Vol. 21.