1763
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Rev. John Brown
Anonymous, "Epigram on a famous Allusion in Dr. Brown's Estimate" St. James's Magazine 3 (December 1763) 232-33.
Commentary for
Rev. John Brown:
1745: S. H.
1757: Thomas Gray
1758: Thomas Gray
1760: Anonymous
1761: Bp. Richard Hurd
1763: Robert Lloyd
1764: W. K.
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1765: Cuthbert Shaw
1765: A. E.
1765 ca.: Mentor
1765: Anonymous
1765: R. X.
1766: Thomas Gray
1766: Aeacus
1772: Anonymous
1775: Elizabeth Carter
1780: Gilbert Walmsley
1790: L. L.
1792: Anonymous
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1797: Thomas Green
1800 ca.: Robert Southey
1801: William Gilpin
1804: Rev. William Tooke
1807: Robert Southey
1823: William Wordsworth
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1853: Rev. John Mitford
1891: George Birkbeck Hill
1910: Ralph Straus
1911: George Saintsbury
Commentary by
Robert Lloyd:
1755: John Milton
1755: Alexander Pope
1755: Matthew Prior
1755: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1756: George Colman
1756: Matthew Prior
1760: Thomas Gray
1761: James Beattie
1762: Allan Ramsay
1763: Joseph Addison
1763: Sir Richard Blackmore
1763: Rev. John Brown
1763: Edward Bysshe
1763: Rev. Charles Churchill
1763: Samuel Johnson
1763: David Mallet
1763: Rev. Richard Shepherd
1764: Rev. John Langhorne
1764: William Woty
A vast COLOSSUS made of brass,
By flatt'ry's hand design'd,
WILL stands on high to shew his —,
And thence befoul mankind.
To keep the figure clean and neat,
Let B—N in daily visit,
Come with a sheet of ESTIMATE
To wipe the part, and kiss it.