The Poetical Works of Edward Young
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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Edward Young: With Life Edward Young was born at Upham, near Winchester, in 1681. His father was then rector of Upham, and fellow of Winchester College. The family had previously belonged to Woodhay, in Berkshire; and Edward Young, the elder, had been born at Brampton, in Yorkshire. He had been chaplain to the Earl of Dssory, and in 1682 was collated to the prebend of Gillingham Minor in the church of Sarum or Salisbury Cathedral. This living was probably poor. In 1686, the Bishop of Salisbury being then too old for his duties, a visitation was held in his place by Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester. The sermon, spoken before him in Latin by the prebendary of Gillingbam, pleased the literary prelate so much, that he observed to the chapter, that twas pity the preacher was one of the poorest amongst them. The sermon was published. Sixteen years after wards, the parson ventured to publish two volumes of similar wares. They were dedicated to Lord Bradford. Every book was dedicated to some one in those days, and frequently the dedication was its only worth. The author was thus advertised through the peerage, and the patron by the book. His sermons or his patrons, or more probably both, procured for the author the appointment of chaplain to the Court, and his preferment to the Deanery of Sarum soon afterwards carried the poor prebend at a leap to the head of the chapter. A writer of the year 1720 declares that Queen Anne had stood godmother to his sou, the future poet. In that case his favour at Court dated from an earlier period than any that can now be fixed. But in process of time the Dean of Sarum died, and one Sunday in 1705, the celebrated Bishop Burnet preached his funeral sermon in the cathedral, and declared that the head of this body, as he called the departed, "still lives in the many excellent directions he has left us both how to live and how to die." Long before this event, Edward Young, the younger, had been placed upon the foundation at Winchester school, where he remained until after his eighteenth birthday. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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