1754 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. Thomas Birch

William Warburton to Thomas Birch, 3 January 1754; Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 2:132.

Commentary for
Rev. Thomas Birch:

1739: Rev. Moses Browne
1749: Thomas Gray
1751: Thomas Edwards
1754: Elizabeth Montagu
1754: William Warburton
1772: Anonymous
1780: Horace Walpole
1787: Sir John Hawkins
1791: James Boswell
1794: William Seward
1832: John Taylor Esq.

Commentary by
William Warburton:

1738: Rev. Henry Felton
1738: Elijah Fenton
1738: Rev. John Whalley
1747: Lewis Theobald
1749: Rev. Richard Bentley
1749: Thomas Edwards
1749: William Lauder
1749: Rev. John Upton
1750 ca.: William Lauder
1750: Rev. John Upton
1751: John Gay
1754: Rev. Thomas Birch
1755: Rev. John Jortin
1757: Matthew Concanen
1757: Lewis Theobald
1759: Samuel Butler
1759: David Hume
1760: Rev. Robert Richardson of Cambridge
1761: Rev. Joseph Warton
1762: Rev. Thomas Warton
1765: Rev. Glocester Ridley
1766: Rev. Richard Graves
1772 ca.: James Beattie
1775: Bp. Richard Hurd

I have received your very valuable present of the Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, and return you my best thanks for the pleasure and instruction you afford me. They are full of curious anecdotes; and I set more value on one material historical anecdote, than on twenty new hypotheses in Philosophy, or a hundred good criticisms.

Rev. Thomas Birch

William Warburton to Thomas Birch, 3 January 1754; Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 2:132.

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Rev. Thomas Birch:

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