Lives of Individuals Who Raised Themselves From Poverty to Eminence Or Fortune
Lives of Individuals Who Raised Themselves From Poverty to Eminence Or Fortune
R a Richard Alfred Davenport
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" To this work he contributed a sensible and well-written Essay on Fable, and several pleasing fables in the third book. To an edition of Shen- stone's Works, vrhich came out in 1763, he prefixed a very brief notice of the poet's life and writings. A de- scription of Piercefield, written by him, is printed in Hull's Select Letters. Having acquired a handsome competence, Dodsley retired from the active part of his business, the care of which he committed to his brother James. He had suf- fered m...uch from gout during the latter years of his life, and this circumstance probably accelerated his retirement. Of this disease he at length became the victim. He died LIFE OF ROBERT DODSLEY. 307 on the 25th of September, 1764, in the sixt3'-first year of his age, while he was upon a visit to his friend, Mr. Spence, at Durham, and was buried in the abbey church- yard of that city. Just at the period when Dodsley was sinking into the grave, his private character was drawn, in homely but affectionate and truthful phrase, b}^ Baker, author of The Companion to the Playhouse.
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