The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. Author: Theophilus Cibber Release date: August 7, 2005 [eBook #16469] Most recently updated: December 12, 2020 Language: English Credits: Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Fred Robinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIVES OF THE POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (1753) VOLUME II. *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Fred Robinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Preparer's Note: This e-text is taken from a facsimile of the original 18th-century volume. The spelling, punctuation, and other quirks have largely been retained. Only the most obvious printer's errors have been corrected, and are marked [like this]. Anglistica & Americana A Series of Reprints Selected by Bernhard Fabian, Edgar Mertner, Karl Schneider and Marvin Spevack 17 GEORG OLMS VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG HILDESHEIM THEOPHILUS CIBBER The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Vol. II 1968 GEORG OLMS VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG HILDESHEIM Note The present facsimile is reproduced from a copy in the possession of the Library of the University of Göttingen. Shelfmark: H. lit. biogr. I 8464. Although the title-page of Volume I announces four volumes, the work is continued in a fifth volume of the same date. Like Volumes II, III, and IV, it is by "Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands" and is "Printed for R. GRIFFITHS". M.S. Reprografischer Nachdruck der Ausgabe London 1753 Printed in Germany Herstellung: fotokap wilhelm weihert, Darmstadt Best.-Nr. 5102040 THE LIVES OF THE POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND. Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Variety of Books, and especially from the MS. Notes of the late ingenious Mr. COXETER and others, collected for this Design, By Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church-Yard. MDCCLIII VOLUME II. Contains the LIVES OF Brewer Newcastle, Duchess May Newcastle, Duke Taylour Birkenhead Habington Boyle, E. Orrery Goldsmith Head Cleveland Hobbs Holiday [sic] Cokaine Nabbes Wharton Shirley Killegrew, Anne Howel Lee Fanshaw Butler Cowley Waller Davenant Ogilby King Rochester [Massinger] Buckingham Stapleton Smith Main Otway Milton [Oldham] Philips [Roscommon] * * * * * _Just Published,_ In one small Octavo Volume, Price bound in Calf 3s. A TRANSLATION of the Ingenious Abbé DE MABLY'S _Observations on the_ ROMANS. A learned and curious Performance; wherein the Policy of that People is set in so clear a Light, and the Characters of their great Men drawn with such a masterly Pen, as cannot but recommend it to all Lovers of Classical Learning. In this Work many new Lights are cast upon the Characters and Conduct of the following celebrated Personages: Romulus, | Pompey, | Otho, Tarquin the Elder, | Cato, | Vitellius, Servius Tullus, | Cæsar, | Vespasian, Brutus, | Cicero, | Titus, The Gracchi, | Antony, | Domitian, Marius, | Augustus, | Nerva, Sylla, | Tiberius, | Trajan, Crassus, | Caligula, | Antoninus, Scipio, | Claudius, | Marcus Aurelius, Hannibal, | Nero, | Diocletian,...