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The Poetical Works of William Collins, With Observations of Dr. Langhorne and Notes by A. Dyce
The Poetical Works of William Collins With Observations of Dr Langhorne and Notes by A Dyce Author:William Collins General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: NOTES DR. JOHNSON'S LIFE OF COLLINS. Note 1, p. 1. William Collins mas born, etc. The following certificate of his baptism has been procured for the present work: "1721,, William, the son of William Collins, then mayor of this city, and Elizabeth his wife, was bap- tized 1st of January." I certify that the above is a true extract from the register of baptisms belonging to the parish of St. Peter the Great, alias Subdeanery, Chichester. J. Davies, curate. August 31st, 1826. Note 2, p. 1. Admitted scholar of Winchester college. " His father," says Langhorne, " intended him for the service of the church; and with this view, in the year 1733, he was admitted a scholar of that illustrious seminary of genius and learning, Winchester college." Note 3, p. 2. He became a commoner of Queen's college. "Where," says Langhorne, "he continued tillJuly 1741, when he was elected a demy of Magdalen college. During his residence at Queen's, he was at once distinguished for genius and indolence; his exercises, when he could be prevailed upon to write, bearing the visible characteristics of both." While at Magdalen college, in January 1742, Collins published his eclogues, under the title of Persian Eclogues, and in December of the following year, Verses to sir Thomas Hanmer on his edition of Shakspeare. Langhorne says that he wrote the eclogues during his residence at Magdalen, but he is mistaken. " Mr. Collins," observes Dr. Joseph Warton, " wrote his eclogues when he was about seventeen years old, at Winchester school, and, as I well remember, had been just reading that volume of Salmon's Modern History which...« less