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William Whitehead

  

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William Whitehead : Essay on Ridicule

'[I am] pleased with Mr Whitehead's Essay on Ridicule, a Piece which shews the Goodness of the Author's Heart, so much preferable to that of the Head alone'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson      Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

  

William Whitehead : [poem on Garrick]

'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little man to inscribe verses to players". I did not presume to controvert this censure, which was tinctured with his prejudice against players; but I could not help thinking that a dramatick poet might with propriety pay a compliment to an eminent performer as Whitehead has very happily done in his verses to Mr Garrick'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

  

William Whitehead : [poem on Garrick]

'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little man to inscribe verses to players". I did not presume to controvert this censure, which was tinctured with his prejudice against players; but I could not help thinking that a dramatick poet might with propriety pay a compliment to an eminent performer as Whitehead has very happily done in his verses to Mr Garrick'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

  

William Whitehead : 'Elegy to Lord Villiers'

'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opinion, that when a man of rank appeared in that character, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed. In this I think he was more liberal than Mr. William Whitehead, in his "Elegy to Lord Villiers", in which under the pretext of "superiour toils, demanding all their care," he discovers a jealousy of the great paying their court to the Muses:-- "------to the chosen few Who dare excel, thy fost'ring aid afford, Their arts, their magick powers, with honours due Exalt;--but be thyself what they record".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

  

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