Authority Cited: Wesley
Author name and dates: Samuel Wesley (1662-1735)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; poet; controversial writer; father of John & Charles, founders of Methodism; “trump” epitaph also in Grammar
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one S. Wesley cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two S. Wesley cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Author name and dates: Samuel Wesley (1662-1735)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; poet; controversial writer; father of John & Charles, founders of Methodism; “trump” epitaph also in Grammar
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one S. Wesley cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two S. Wesley cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
- Poems on Several Occasions. By Samuel Wesley, A.M. Master of Blundell's School at Tiverton, Devon. Sometime Student of Christ-Church, Oxford; and near Twenty Years Usher in Westminster-School. 1736, London, printed for the author by E. Say in Warwick Lane, and sold by S. Birt at the Bible in Ave-Mary Lane.
- [Epitaph on an Infant]; trump ( inexact quote, "a sleeping" in text, "this tomb an" in Dict.; "ashes" in text "body" in Dict.; "sound" in text, "blow" in Dict.; "bodies" in text "to bodies" in Dict.; "will wish" in text, "shall wish" in Dict. [BKG Note: the trump quote appears on p.12 of the 1736 edition and on p.42 of the 1743 2nd ed.; there is no evidence which edition SJ used and quoted inaccurately in the Dictionary "Grammar of the English Tongue" and in the word list, likely from memory.]
- [An Epitaph]; curious (inexact quote, "luckless name" in text, "hated name" in Dict., likely from memory, p. 226 in 1736 edition)
- [The Parish Priest]; patron (inexact quote, "elate with pride" in text, "or swoln with pride" in Dict., likely from memory, p. 71 in 1736 edition) [BKG Note: the poem is a tribute by Wesley to his father.]