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.-lo-ft - ¦¦" '' ¦ ¦ : ¦ - " " ' - ¦ v nher ^ t pstron of such genius as tlj ^ t' age produced / ' He ad ds , 4 b ^^ nicntron of my lord's ortiwy lady ' s library deserves noti £ ® f a ^ ra . time w hen aiany of the fir ^ t n ^ Jbjlity covild hardly read , or writeJtxeir names . '' ri the
rI ^ U $ same year , 1770 , w ^ s ^ utjlished by Dr . P . with a d ^ jfjjcjjtjon to the Duke of Northunaberjand " Maliett ' s Northern Antiquities ^ in his Introduction to .. tlif | History of Denmark , or a Description of the Manners , Custo ms , Religion and Laws of the antient Danes , and other
Northern Nations , including those of otjt ^ < £# ixon Ancestors ; wUh a translation of the Ed da , or System of . jp . unic Mythology , and other Pieces , from the antient Islandic
Tongue ; 'translated from Monsieur JM ^ dl <^ tt ' s Introduction a V Hist dire d ? k Dannemarc * vvitb additional Notes by the English ^ translator , an . jl Jyrancin $ Latin Version of tHjp ^/ J ^*/* MalJett ' s work appeared in 1763 , and very early engaged , the at tent ion of ijis transla ^ , who has given a Preface of
some length , designed priricipally tayprove , against the opinions of hip-, autbor , " that the Teutonic UTtfkiQultip nations were originally tw ^ < i ist 1 nct p = eopJe # *' 4 | t 17 * f % j the muse of Percy gratified his patrons by the publiGaftop , of ^ f JTh e Hermit of
Warkvvggt | i a Northumberland Ballad , in ithree Fits or Camos ; which , except the beautiful song in Dods-^ y * e * - ) qpllection , O Nancy wilt ttyfllgp * with me , comprizes , we be ^ i ev ^ , the whole of his original T > t yetrypi Wark worth was one ai , ths . titl ^ of the Duke of North
ur aterJl ^^^ and a castle of that n ^ Wfy £ a part of his princely posessions . Dr . P . appears indeed
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to have been sufficiently tenacious of the good opinion of the noble house . to which he was" now attached . Boswell has preserved a curious proof of this , in that collection of trash and treasure , the Life of Johnson , which our limits will not allow us to introduce . See Boswell , h . 215 . 4 to . If Dr . Percy had set his mind on attaining to high station in the church , the fear of
disappointment soon subsided . His rise was now raprd . In 1778 , he
became Dean of Carlisle , and in 1782 , Bishop of Dromore . He was no longer knowif to the pub * , lie except by occasional communications to his literary friends , Mr . Nichols had been fissibted by him in his ci Select Collection of Miscellaneous Poems . * ' He no \ t contributed to the " History of Hinkley , " and , in 178 (> , to an edition of the " Tatler , with Notes , in 6 vols /* Dr . Kippis mentions his obligations to Di \ Percy , in the Preface to his 1 st . volume of
Biog . Brit , and in 1784 , was indebted to him , in the 4 th volume , for the Life of Cleiveland , the bitter satirist of republicans , to whom Dr . P . was collaterally related . This life is short and
afforded occasion for little more than judicious selection . There is one observation on the effect ojf 46 paying court to temporary prejudices , " which is well worthy of quotation . Cieitfe / and ' s " subjects and his manner of
writingmade him extremely popular among his contemporaries , but entirely forgotten and disregarded since . ——Contemporary with Milton , he was in his time exceedingly preferred before him ; and Milton ' s own nephew tells us , he was by some esteemed the best ; of
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¦ x - Literary Memoir of Dr . Percy ^ late Bishop of Dromore . Fl
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/7/
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