, vicar of Starting in Sussex. Of this gentleman we have only been able
, vicar of Starting in Sussex. Of
this gentleman we have only been able to discover that he
was educated at Westminster-school, whence he was elected
to Christ church, Oxford, in 1713, and took his degree of
A. M. in that university, April 5, 1720. He died March
16, 1744. He wrote two excellent poetical satires, “The
Art of Politics,
” in imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry,
and “the Man of Taste,
” occasioned by Pope’s Epistle on
that subject; both in Dodsley’s Collection, vol. I.; and
ft The Crooked Sixpence,“in imitation of Phillips’s Splendid Shilling, inserted in the
” Repository,“vol. I. Dr.
Warton objects to his
” Man of Taste," that he has made
his hero laugh at himself and his own follies. The satire,
however, in other respects, is truly legitimate.