The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-19


hear and marx ths oouTtly phrases
And eli ne elegancs that passes.
disputes maintained Without digrssslon.
Win ready wttand nns expression.
The laws Of true poliisnsas stated
And what good breeding q dehatea.
The poet footman had opportunity az
dinner time N advance his polite educa-
ton Very likely there was further op-
portunity when tea was served. when he
poured -or Green or BOhea out At
nightfall the scene Waa ruder Then.
II being the hour Of visiting:
The chalrmsa strait prepare ire chair.
lighted hamheau prepare.
And orders Giveu where 20 90.
We march along and hustle thro
The parting crOids. who all stand %
To rive us room. ~ hoW you'd laugh
70 see me strut before . chair
And vtth a 'urdy voics and cir
Crying By your leave SIR have q earsi
From place 10 place win speed W. ~.
And rat ,AAt the Snockcrscry
Pray Il your Lady. dr. withn'
lfno. 60 on Wyea. We saterin.
Then 70 the hail guide ny steps
Amongst = croud Of brother skiDs
Drinking snail beer and taTkinE smut
Whist oaihs sad ps-is % laughter meet
And hr who's loudest r. the greatest wlt
Dodslays frs, published pisce vas
called -Ssrvituds ne took II 20 the
great Daniel Dcfoe then in his SIXTY
ninth year. who helped him with IL: IL
Was published in lT2S In IN was pub
lished \ Muse in Livery, or the Foot
mans Miscellany II II from this poem
that We have quoted Like the other
poets. Dodslsy found subscribers His
list contained more than two hundred
names. many u them from the peerage
The L0wther family took nine copies. Sir
Robert Walpole four. the Countess %
Hartford four. the Earl 81 Thormond and
his vife siH The Duch-sses of Bolton
Bedford and Cleveland we're Subscribers
80 were Strele's -Aapasia the Lady
Elizabeth Hastings and two - her sisters.
A few months after the first publication
two London booksellers were advertising
the second edition Of A Muae In Livery
by r Dodsley. nov Footman 20 a Person
o. Quality AZ Whitehall Dodsley must
have felt proud, but he did not put on airs.
In hrs preface 20 the second edition he wrote
quite humbly wow ~ % alch % my
subscribers a. shall think ~ % b. nv
readers for that ! don't expect they all
will he. nor should he surprised 20 know
a twelvemonth hencs that many Of the
books were still uncutl. beg them 20 con-
sider the very many Disadvantages the
author lahors under What can h. eN-
peCted from the psn % a poor footmAn'
a character that expresses a want both
u friends fortune and al the advantages
Il liberal education % a polite converse.
one o. both Of which are absolutely neces-
sary 20 show even the best natural genius
in a tolerable light But there WAS one
Thing he thought he might do nov though
be- vas not pulled up. be thought he might
venture 90 address the great Mr. Pope.
He sent a short prose play, The Toy
Shop 20 Pope. who answered most gra-
ciouslv saying that he liked the play and
would recommend u % Mr. Rich This
vas done. and though there vas a delay
Of three years Rich produced the play At
his Covent Garden theatre In i7E II
vas very successful On the stage IL had
a long career and a. a printed pamphlet
IL enjoyed a great sale Two months after
- first production Dodsley opened bic
book shop. the Tully's Head. in Pail Mall
Two years later he made a famous stroke
a. a publisher
II 10 curious nov 20 rad about Richard
Glover's poem u -Leonidas Time has
ahorn Il q ia Importance. but Il was
very important indeed in 1871 Glover
IL described by Mr. StraH a. a success
ful merchant who wrote poetry IN HE
spare momsnts he took his poem. 'an
epic 81 Miltonian proportions. 10 Dods-
ley. Who bors the expense u 10 pub
lication and was richly rewarded for
his enterprise -I.eonidas- startled the
town. says Mr. Straus lie relates a
number u things that were said Il IL
II was preferred by some critics Of
the day - Paradise Lost Il passed
through several editions. II vas praised
by Fielding and Lord Chatham II vas
the event Of the year Every one spnks q
IL swift wrote from Dublin. Pray who
- this Glover. who writ an epic poem
called I,eonidas. which 10 Feprinting here
and hath great vogusi' Dr. Jossph
wart0n. aftsrward a great friend %
Dodsley's. made record Pew poems have
been received with greater applause than
'Ieonidas Lord Lyttleton in a paper
called Common Sense' gave Il a very
high chromium. Or. Pemberton wrote
Long and critical examination 81 its merits
this also was published by DodsleYl.
saualling Il 20 Homer and Milton. Moth
ing else vas read q or talked % az
Isicrster House, Glover was Grand Pan
jandrlIm befors Alexander smith. fhs
Prince q Wales lived In leicester HOuas.
which was alto tho meeting place Of dis
tingushsd group u writer's among them
the good" Lord LyttletOn and Lord
Chesterfield IL vas a remarkably CooG
day for Dodslsy whsn be- published Rich
ard GlOver's epic.
Johnson's poem u London was pub
li.hed by Dodsley. Boswell relates: 'lt
has generally b.en said. know not with
what truth. that johnson offered his
London 70 several bOokaeller-. none
81 whom would purchase II. nut the worthy
MF. Robert DOdsley had taste enough
~ perceive its uncommon merit and
thouEht IL creditable % have a share
in It. The fact h that az . future con-
ference he hargained for the whole |
property u h. for which hs gave John |
son ten EIinsaa' johnson told Bos-
we'll. I might perhaps have aooepted /
les, but that Paul Whitehead had little I
a. -