1777
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Rev. William Dodd
Clericus, "To Mr. Winterbottom, on the Death of Doctor Dodd" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (7 August 1777).
Commentary for
Rev. William Dodd:
1750: Anonymous
1760: Horace Walpole
1761: William Woty
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1764: A. Weekes
1766: Anonymous
1769: Joseph Cockfield
1769: Alexander Carlyle
1769: Antigallican
1772: Anonymous
1773: G. B. H.
1774: Horace Walpole
1774: A. B.
1774: Anonymous
1777: Elizabeth Montagu
1777: Samuel Johnson
1777: J. T.
1777: Thomas Hastings
1777: Anonymous
1777: Anonymous
1777: Belinda
1777: Humanicus
1777: W. W.
1777: D. J.
1777: M. S.
1777: Mira
1777: John Huddlestone Wynne
1777: Clio
1777: Clericus
1778: M. Macgreggor, Esq.
1778: Charles Graham
1785: William Cowper
1791: James Boswell
1794: Anonymous
1795: Anonymous
1804: Rev. William Tooke
1806: Robert Southey
1807: Robert Southey
1809: Dr. Nathan Drake
1810: Alexander Chalmers
1813: George Colman the Younger
1815: Charles Lamb
1824: Anonymous
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1842: C. H. Timperley
Commentary by
Clericus:
1777: Rev. William Dodd
When sharp affliction wounds the heart,
Which pants for quick relief;
Say, what can ease the raging smart
And agony of grief?
What! but religion, sweetest maid,
That e'er to earth was giv'n;
She, mild physician, brings her aid,
Immediately from Heav'n.
In that sad hour, when o'er the bier,
Compassion, mourning hung,
And sympathy distill'd the tear
Of Nature, for her Son;
Then she, benevolently kind,
Apply'd her sov'reign rod;
Check'd grief's excess, and taught the mind,
Submission unto God.
Yet tears may fall, thou gen'rous man!
Well temper'd they are wise—
For what is life? 'tis but a span,
And Dodd's above the skies.
Then, 'on the wings of Hope ascend,
To that immortal seat;
Where charity shall never end,
And amity's compleat.
Aug. 3, 1777.