Authority Cited: Welsted
Author name and dates: Leonard Welsted (1688-1747)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; married daughter of Henry Purcell; literary warfare with Scriblerus Club members; in Dunciad; Govt. clerk employment
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Welsted cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. Not in 1773 Dict. No additional Welsted cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Welsted is named five times in Pope cites (beer, gripe, heady, mawkish, unfeeling).]
"Heroes, kings
Joy thy wish'd approach to see. Welsted."
Text:
"Poets, prophets, hero's, kings,
Pleas'd, thy ripe approach forsee . . ."
Author name and dates: Leonard Welsted (1688-1747)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; married daughter of Henry Purcell; literary warfare with Scriblerus Club members; in Dunciad; Govt. clerk employment
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Welsted cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. Not in 1773 Dict. No additional Welsted cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Welsted is named five times in Pope cites (beer, gripe, heady, mawkish, unfeeling).]
- The genius, an ode, written on occasion of the Duke of Marlborough's first apoplexy, and reserv'd not to be publish'd till after his death. With a prefatory epistle to Dr. Chamberlen. By Mr. Welsted, 1722, London: printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-keys between the Temple-Gates, and sold by J. Roberts at the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane; hero ( inexact quote, likely from memory). [BKG Note: SJ's source may have been Epistles, odes, &c. written on several subjects: with a dissertation concerning the perfection of the English language, the state of poetry, &c. By Mr. Welsted, the second edition, 1725, London: printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill; and J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Pater-Noster Row.]
"Heroes, kings
Joy thy wish'd approach to see. Welsted."
Text:
"Poets, prophets, hero's, kings,
Pleas'd, thy ripe approach forsee . . ."