1793 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Bp. Richard Hurd

Horace Walpole, 1797, in Journal of the Reign of King George III; Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05) 4:517.

Commentary for
Bp. Richard Hurd:

1757: Thomas Gray
1759: Rev. William Mason
1762: Rev. Thomas Warton
1762: Edward Gibbon
1762: A. B.
1763: Mellifont
1773: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1774: Rev. Robert Potter
1775: William Warburton
1776: Rev. William Mason
1776: Ductor Dubitantium
1776: Chiaro Oscuro
1783: Samuel Johnson
1784: Anonymous
1786: James Beattie
1787: Frances Burney
1789: Cacafago
1789: Anonymous
1793: Horace Walpole
1796: Thomas Green
1804: Rev. William Tooke
1808: Edmond Malone
1809: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1814: George Dyer
1814: Isaac D'Israeli
1825 ca.: Joseph Cradock
1834: John Wilson
1836: Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin
1853: Rev. John Mitford
1858: Francis Kilvert

Commentary by
Horace Walpole:

1743: Charles Sackville
1744: Rev. Thomas Carte
1749: Bp. Francis Atterbury
1750: Rev. Joseph Spence
1751: George Lyttelton
1751: Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
1752: Archibald Campbell
1753: Rev. John Dart
1755: William Gerard Hamilton
1757: Dr. Mark Akenside
1757: Thomas Gray
1757: Francis Quarles
1757: William Whitehead
1758: Rev. John Jortin
1758: John Sheffield
1760: Rev. William Dodd
1760: Tobias Smollett
1762: Rev. Thomas Warton
1763: Rev. Charles Churchill
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1764: Samuel Richardson
1766: Christopher Anstey
1766: Edmund Burke
1766: Rev. James Scott
1766: Rev. John Wesley
1768: Christopher Anstey
1768: Hugh Dalrymple
1768: Rev. James Granger
1769: Thomas Chatterton
1769: Rev. Francis Hoyland
1769: Rev. Michael Tyson
1770 ca.: Dr. John Armstrong
1770 ca.: Lord Chesterfield
1771: Samuel Johnson
1773: Elizabeth Sheridan
1774: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1774: John Campbell
1774: Rev. William Dodd
1774: Oliver Goldsmith
1775: Rev. John Dalton
1775: Edward Burnaby Greene
1775: Sir John Harington
1775: Elizabeth Montagu
1776: John Chute
1776: Rev. James Granger
1776: Rev. Thomas Pentycross
1777: Gen. John Burgoyne
1778: Thomas Chatterton
1778: Edward Jerningham
1778: Rev. Robert Potter
1778: Clara Reeve
1779: George Keate
1779: Rev. Michael Tyson
1780: Rev. Thomas Birch
1780: George Colman
1780: Sir William Jones
1780: Rev. Joseph Spence
1780: Rev. Joseph Warton
1781: Rev. Richard Farmer
1781: Samuel Johnson
1781: William King
1781: Adam Smith
1782: Bp. John Hinchliffe
1782: Rev. Francis Meres
1782: Thomas Pennant
1782: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1782: Mary Robinson
1782: Rev. Thomas Stratford
1783: James Beattie
1785: Rev. John Cosens
1790: Edmund Burke
1790 ca.: Samuel Johnson
1793: Bp. Richard Hurd
1796: Edward Jerningham

Hurd had acquired a great name by several works of slender merit, was a gentle plausible man, affecting a singular decorum that endeared him highly to devout old ladies.