OF

THE LIFE

OF

GILBERT WAKEFIELD, B.A.

FORMERLY

FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LIBRARY.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
༣༠༧

BY THE EDITORS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

John Towill Rust

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONSISTING CHIEFLY OF ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS,

a his study bent

To worship God aright, and know his works

Not hid, nor those things last which might preserve

Freedom and Peace to men.

MILTON, P. L. xi. 577.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J.JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT.

S.C.R

CT
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VOL. II.

Introduction.....

Page 1

CHAP. I.

Continuation of "Silva Critica.... Dr. Kipling, Dr.

Milner.... Mr. Tyrwhitt's liberality...." Spirit of

Christianity compared," &c.

CHAP. II.

1792-1795......5

Mr. Wakefield's Answer to the "Age of Reason"....

Remarks on the proceedings against that work, &c.

1794-1797..

CHAP. III.

18

Editions of Horace.... Virgil.... Greek tragedies....

Projected edition of Pope's works...." Observations

on Pope".. "Poetical translations".... "Bion and

Moschus"....Hackney Club. 1794, 1795.....50

CHAP. IV.

Active liberality of Mr. Wakefield...." Reply to the

Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. to a noble Lord."...

1794-1797.........

...66

CHAP. V.

Mr. Wakefield's edition of Pope's Homer...." General

Observations on Homer and his Translators"....

Publication of Lucretius....Diatribe...." Letter to

Jacob Bryant, Esq."...." Letter to William Wil-

berforce, Esq." 1796, 1797....

CHAP. VI.

....81

Mr. Wakefield's "Reply to some Parts of the Bishop of

Landaff's Address to the People of Great Britain"....

Proceedings against the publishers.... The author's

trial and defence. 1798, 1799...

CHAP. VII.

115

Mr. Wakefield called up for judgment.... His Address

to the Judges.... Commitment to the King's Bench

prison.... Brought up to the Court for sentence....

Address from Mr. Justice Grose..... Sentence....

Generous testimony of attachment from his friends

and the public. 1799....

CHAP. VIII.

142

Mr. Wakefield's removal to Dorchester gaol, and circum-

stances connected with his imprisonment.

CHAP. IX.

1799...

162

Circumstances of Mr. Wakefield's imprisonment, con-

tinued.... Proposals for a Greek and English Lexi-

....Letters. 1800....

con.....

200

CHAP. XI.

Imitation of Juvenal.... Letters from Mr. Wakefield

....Dr. Darwin.... Scripture Lexicon, &c. 1800.

225

CHAP. XII.

Mr. Wakefield's letters to his Daughter.... Attendance

on four condemned criminals.... Letters from the

Rev. Dr. Parr and the Rev. Dr. Geddes.... His re-

lease from the gaol. 1801.....

CHAP XIII.

.245

Mr.Wakefield's application in behalf of the prisoners.....

Observations on the regulations of the prison, &c.

from his miscellaneous papers.

CHAP. XIV.

1801..........266

Mr. Wakefield's return to Hackney.

to Hackney.... Lectures on

Virgil.... His illness and death. 1801........283

CHAP. XV.

Miscellaneous observations relative to Mr. Wakefield's

character..

CHAP. XVI.

..297

Respect paid to Mr. Wakefield's memory.... Letter from

Dr. Parr....Funeral....Sketches of his character....

Verses on the occasion of his death. 1801.....321

APPENDIX. (B.)

Essay "On the Origin of Alphabetical Characters"...339