Note

The present facsimile is reproduced from a copy in the possession of the Library of the University of Goettingen.  Shelfmark:  H. lit. biogr.  I 8464.

Although the title-page of Volume I announces four volumes, the work is continued in a fifth volume of the same date.  Like Volumes ii, iii, and iv, it is by “Mr. Cibber, and other Hands” and is “Printed for R. Griffiths”.

M.S.

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The

Lives

Ofthe i>

Poets

Of

Great Britain and Ireland.

Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Variety of Books, and
especially from the Ms. Notes of the late ingenious Mr. Coxeter and
others, collected for this Design,

By Mr. Cibber, and other Hands.

Vol.  II.

London: 
Printed for R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 
MDCCLIII

VOLUME II.

Contains the

Lives

Of

Brewer            Newcastle, Duchess
May               Newcastle, Duke
Taylour           Birkenhead
Habington         Boyle, E. Orrery
Goldsmith         Head
Cleveland         Hobbs
Holiday [sic]     Cokaine
Nabbes            Wharton
Shirley           Killegrew, Anne
Howel             Lee
Fanshaw           Butler
Cowley            Waller
Davenant          Ogilby
King              Rochester
[Massinger]       Buckingham
Stapleton         Smith
Main              Otway
Milton            [Oldham]
Philips           [Roscommon]

* * * * *

Just Published,

In one small Octavo Volume, Price bound in Calf 3s.

A translation of the Ingenious Abbe de MABLY’S Observations on the
Romans.  A learned and curious Performance; wherein the Policy of that
People is set in so clear a Light, and the Characters of their great
Men drawn with such a masterly Pen, as cannot but recommend it to all
Lovers of Classical Learning.

In this Work many new Lights are cast upon the Characters and Conduct of the following celebrated Personages: 

Romulus,           | Pompey,   | Otho,
Tarquin the Elder, | Cato,     | Vitellius,
Servius Tullus,    | Caesar,    | Vespasian,
Brutus,            | Cicero,   | Titus,
The Gracchi,       | Antony,   | Domitian,
Marius,            | Augustus, | Nerva,
Sylla,             | Tiberius, | Trajan,
Crassus,           | Caligula, | Antoninus,
Scipio,            | Claudius, | Marcus Aurelius,
Hannibal,          | Nero,     | Diocletian,
Pyrrhus,           | Galba,    | Constantine the Great
&c. &c. &c.

Printed for R. Griffiths, in Paul’s Church-Yard.