...\vh» it is to be given to, pray let me know; for I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...it; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, tho' at last he turned out a drunken parson; Dryden was as disgraceful to the office, from his character,...

...improve it ; how it stood when this criticism upon it was written, I cannot now recollect. — Mason. 304 wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve the...be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Rowe was, I tbjnk, the last man of character that had it ; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though...

...trumpeter or pinmaker to the palace. Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Howe was, I think, the last man of character that had it. As to Settle, whom you mention, he belonged...

...trumpeter or pinmaker to the palace. Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Howe was, I think, the last man of character that had it. As to Settle, whom you mention, he belonged...

...Lincolnshire, where he took to drinking and translating Tasso. Gray, in a letter to Mason, writes : " Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken parson." However much " bemused with beer," his inebriety did not altogether obstruct his literary labours,...

...benefice, and took to drinking, and translating Tasso. He is mentioned in a letter of Gray's — " Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken parson." The line of archipoetical succession brings us to one who has a double claim to immortality. The laurel...

...everybody I saw smelt a rat about me. Nevertheless,! interest my sel fa little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Rowe was, I thinli, the last man of character that had it. Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though...

...everybody I saw smelt a rat about me. Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Eowe was, I think, the last man of character that had it. Eusden was a person of great hopes in his...

...sergeant-trumpeter or pin-maker to the palace. Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it ; and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit.' — Mitford, p. 112. ' I received my answer very soon, which was what you may ' easily imagine, but...

...succeeded by one who wrote worse and drank more — Eusden, of whom Gray writes to Mason that he " was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last ho turned out a drunken parson." Gibber loved the bottle quite as intensely as Eusden did, and he was...