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Information in the "Brief Memoir" by the Rev. Gay," published 1760 but there is little fresh Of some slight biographical value is the "Account of the Life and Writings of the Author," prefixed to the volume of "Plays Written by Mr. Poor slander-selling Curll would be undone. Were Prior, Congreve, Swift, and Pope unknown, Whose hands so many of Gay's friends had suffered, the poet had written in the "Epistle to the Right Honourable Paul Methuen, Esquire":. I was over-ruled in this." Curll obtained no assistance from Gay's friends, and his book, issued in 1733, is at once inadequate and unreliable. Some, which I am sure might have been made entertaining, by which I should have attained two ends at once, published truth and got a rascal whipped for it. "Curll (who is one of the new horrors of death) has been writing letters to everybody for memoirs of his (Gay's) life," Arbuthnot wrote to Swift, January 13th, 1733: "I was for sending him It is true that no sooner was the breath out of his body than Curll published a "Life." It is somewhat strange that there should be no biography of a man so well-known and so much beloved. All his friends placed their purses and their houses at Gay's disposal, and competed for the pleasure of his company. The century quarrelled with Lady Suffolk for the same reason a Duchess insulted the King and wiped the dust of the Court from her shoes, and a Duke threw up his employment under the Crown. Because he thought Gay ill-used, the greatest man of letters of A Cabinet Minister made him a present of South Sea stock Walpole appointed him aĬommissioner of Lotteries he was granted an apartment in Whitehall Queen Caroline offered him a sinecure post in her Household. Regarded himself as neglected by the gods, it is nevertheless a fact that the fates were unusually kind to him. His "Fables" and "The Beggar's Opera" have become classics his play "Polly" made history. Was the protégé of the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry. Misfortune." Gay was on intimate terms with Arbuthnot and Lord Burlington, and Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk, was devoted to him and consulted him in the matter of her matrimonial troubles. Received December 15th, but not read till the 20th, by an impulse foreboding some
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Him the sad tidings of Gay's death bears the endorsement: "On my dear friend Mr. He was loved by Pope Swift cared for him more than for any other man, and the letter in which Pope conveyed to John Gay was a considerable figure in the literary and social circles of his day. With an Introduction by the Earl of Rosebery, K.G.īRIGHTON: ITS FOLLIES, ITS FASHIONS, AND ITS HISTORY. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON.
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THE BERRY PAPERS: Being the Life and Letters of Mary and Agnes Berry. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM BECKFORD OF FONTHILL. PUBLISHED IN LONDON BY DANIEL O'CONNOR, NINETY GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.I: 1921 From a sketch by Sir Godfrey Kneller in the National Portrait Gallery.ĪUTHOR OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA" BY LEWIS MELVILLE