1779
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
David Hume
Edward Jerningham
, "Written in Mr. Hume's History" Jerningham, Poems (1779) 117.
Commentary for
David Hume:
1759: William Warburton
1761: Bp. Richard Hurd
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1766: John Cunningham
1767: Anonymous
1770: Elizabeth Montagu
1772: Anonymous
1773: Samuel Johnson
1773: Rev. William Mason
1776: William Russell
1776: William Julius Mickle
1777: W. S.
1778: Antisceptic
1778: Anonymous
1778: Anonymous
1778: Anti-Sceptick
1779: Edward Jerningham
1780 ca.: Adam Smith
1786 ca.: Edmond Malone
1791: Francis Garden
1791: James Boswell
1795 ca.: Bp. Richard Hurd
1800 ca.: George Hardinge
1802: George Dyer
1803 ca.: Alexander Carlyle
1804: Rev. William Tooke
1807: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1808: Rev. George Gregory
1810: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1810: Alexander Chalmers
1811: Sir James Mackintosh
1818: William Godwin
1819: Leigh Hunt
1819: John Gibson Lockhart
1822: John Wilson
1822: Anonymous
1824: Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin
1828: Thomas Babington Macaulay
1888: Edmund Gosse
Commentary by
Edward Jerningham:
1772: Rev. William Mason
1779: David Hume
1779: Elizabeth Montagu
1785: Elizabeth Montagu
1807: John Taylor Esq.
1808: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Big with the tales of other years,
Here lays th' historic tome;
Which to the pensive mind appears
A deep capacious tomb:
Where long embalm'd by CLIO'S hand,
The patriot and the slave,
Who sav'd, and who betray'd the land,
Press one extensive grave:
With those that grasp'd th' imperial helm,
And trod the path of Pow'r:
With those who grac'd fair Learning's realm,
And Beauty's fairer bow'r.
If thus th' illustrious close their scene,
Oblivion then may laugh:
What flows from HUME'S recording pen
Is but an Epitaph!