1778
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Thomas Gray
M. Macgreggor, Esq., in "The Battle of the Busts" Hibernian Magazine 8 (April 1778) 195.
Commentary for
Thomas Gray:
1742: Richard West
1751: Musaphil
1755: Rev. William Mason
1757: Horace Walpole
1757: Anonymous
1760 ca.: Rev. William Mason
1760: Edward Cooper
1760: Robert Lloyd
1765: James Beattie
1766: Anonymous
1768: M.
1771: Earl of Carlisle
1771 ca.: Richard Cumberland
1771 ca.: Anonymous
1771: Bp. Richard Hurd
1771: R. H.
1772: Rev. John Ball
1772: Anonymous
1772: James Boswell
1773: Rev. William Hayward Roberts
1773: Danos
1773: H. S.
1773: Anonymous
1773: Nemo
1774: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1775: Rev. John Langhorne
1775: Samuel Johnson
1775 ca.: Rev. John Langhorne
1775 ca.: William Cole
1775: J. P.
1777: Rev. Thomas Warton
1777: William Cowper
1778: Anonymous
1778: M. Macgreggor, Esq.
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1780: Thomas Davies
1782: Rev. William Mason
1783: Anonymous
1785: Rev. Bryan Waller
1788: Rev. Robert Greville
1790: Helen Maria Williams
1791: Anonymous
1792: Anonymous
1794: Robert Alves
1794: Thomas James Mathias
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1796: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1798: Edward Gardner
1802: Alexander Thomson
1802: Joseph Dennie
1803: Anna Seward
1804: George Dyer
1804: Rev. William Tooke
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1807: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1807: Robert Southey
1807: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1807: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1808: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1812: An Eminent Scholar
1813: Rev. William Cameron
1814: Thomas James Mathias
1815: Thomas James Mathias
1816: William Wordsworth
1818: William Hazlitt
1819: Richard Henry Dana
1820: Lord Byron
1820 ca.: Alexander Balfour
1821: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1821: Rev. Henry Francis Cary
1821: Edwin
1822: Tobias Oldschool
1824: T. Z.
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825 ca.: Joseph Cradock
1825: Anonymous
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1830: Rev. George Barrell Cheever
1830: Anonymous
1834: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1835 ca.: Charles Crocker
1845 ca.: Rev. John Moultrie
1880: Matthew Arnold
1882: Epes Sargent
1898: George Saintsbury
Commentary by
M. Macgreggor, Esq.:
1778: Rev. William Dodd
1778: Oliver Goldsmith
1778: Thomas Gray
1778: John Hawkesworth
1778: Samuel Johnson
1778: Rev. John Langhorne
A similar fopling in sattin and silk,
Next comes Molly Grey, with his measure of milk,
His muse, aping art, in the fulness of pride,
Frizz'd in ton with but nature's nine hairs on a side.
Place this pretty bard, if you will, in the porch;