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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...indeed, here are few of these whose history is familiar to the general reader. Of Roscommon, for instance, although nobleman and necessarily moving in a sphere of life more open to observation than men of inferior rank, itlle comparatively is known; little at least «f that species of detail which gives biography its chief charm. Che same may be said of Denham; for Denham, though of English ancestry, being born in Ireland, may fairly be claimed as an Irish writer. With regard to Farquhar, whose genius for comedy was not excelled by either longreve or Sheridan, little of a satifactory nature is recorded of his private life; nay, we have hardly any details of his more public career, excepting the facts of lis having been an actor upon the stage, and afterwards an officer in the army: of Boyse (author of the " Deity") we know only that he was of reckless and dissipated labits; of John Cunningham, known for his ballads and a variety of poetical pieces between 1750 and 1770, hat he was a strolling player; and even Goldsmith was:nabled to glean little concerning Parnell. Southerne ived long enough to be enabled himself to contradict:be story commonly told, and not yet expunged from some of the biographical dictionaries, of his having been join in England and brought up a servitor at Oxford, instead of being, as he really was, a native of Dublin, and educated at his own expense in her university. And Dr. Johnson has thought proper to consider the birthplace of Swift as in some measure doubtful. To the list of writers of whom we know less than their reputation deserves, must be added Goldsmith. A biographical preface is all that has been hitherto awarded him, and it will scarcely be contended that he is unworthy of any thing more. Such sketchy outline...
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