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Title: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)
Vol. IV

Author: Theophilus Cibber

Release Date: April 14, 2004 [EBook #12014]

Language: English

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THE

LIVES

OF

THE

POETS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.

By Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands. VOL. IV.

MDCCLIII. VOLUME IV.

Contains the LIVES OF

Motteux
Manley Mrs.
Needler
Hughes
Prior
Centlivre Mrs.
Brady
Stepney
Pack
Dawes Arch. York
Congreve
Vanbrugh
Steele
Marvel
Thomas Mrs.
Fenton
Booth
Sewel
Hammond
Eusden
Eachard
Oldmixon
Welsted
Smyth More
Dennis
Granville L. Lansdowne
Gay
Philip D. Wharton
Codrington
Ward
L'Estrange
Smith Edmund
De Foe
Rowe Mrs.
Yalden
Mitchel
Ozell

* * * * *

_Just Published,_

Dedicated to the Right Honourable PHILIP Earl of CHESTERFIELD.

Correctly printed in a neat Pocket Volume (Price Bound Three
Shillings,)

The Second Edition of

LES MOEURS; or, MANNERS. Accurately Translated from the French.
Wherein the Principles of Morality, or Social Duties, viz. Piety,
Wisdom, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, Love, Friendship,
Humanity, &c. &c. are described in all their Branches; the Obligations
of them shewn to consist in our Nature, and the Enlargement of them
strongly enforc'd. Here Parents are taught, that, giving Birth to
a Child, scarcety entitles them to that honourable Name, without a
strict Discharge of Parental Duties; the Friend will find, there are a
thousand other Decorums, besides the doing of a Favour, to entitle him
to the tender Name of Friend; and the Good natur'd Man will find,
he ought to extend that Quality beyond the Bounds of his own
Neighbourhood or Party.

The Whole wrote in a manner entirely New and Entertaining, and
enliven'd with real Characters, drawn from life, and fited