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he n * ni c hed Jb is education f pv J , hp Ufnvefshy * . Mr ; Biilivvbrrti is described by his pupil , in the dedication of Horace to Sir Edward Littleton , as 6 C an excellent
person to whom they had both been extremely ohlrgeft ; ' and who possessed every talent of a perfect institutor of youth . "
Leaving B re wood , Mr . Illird fcntefed hiniseif of ErarrraiHrel Col - lege , where in 1748 , lie was a contributor to tl / e . Xj ' difibritjge
Verses on the peace of Aix la Ghapelle . This was probably , his first appearance from the press , and his sole attempt in that line of composition . He had now , as we learn from himself-f ,
cc the honour of being personally acquainted" with Warburton , who having as ably encountered , as he had rudely pro voiced ' a variety of opposition , began to take his station among the literary veterans of his time . It has been
said , ' we know not on what authority , that Hurd was introduced to Warburton by Mr . Allen of Batlr , to whom Warburton { innself had been ^ recommended by Pope . In \ 7 ^ 9 f our academic
comipenced a long extended career of lite ary reputation by publishing i nonymously Horace ' s Ars Poetica , or u the Epistle to the Pisos , " with a commentary and notes . These were in English , a mode of publication possessing
* « c Mr . Bud worth would sometimes observe thdt y' 6 ung Mr . HufdtJid bot apply much to his book when he first came to his school , and that he continued tn an unpromising state till the last year before he went I © the University , when he began to study in earnest , and soon made ' such an astonishingrpragress ,. ti ! hat ' with rapture would Mr . B . say , he never foncw ' so . surprising sunr sifteration , and so 'great an improvement in such a short time . '* GtntMag . Imujfrf . Note : ^ f ** Discourse by way of General RreFacc to . ^ he quarto edition of Bishop Warburton ' s Wmtks , * i 794 . P . 53 . $ In this Itissertation and the Notes on the "Epistle to Augustus / . ' are soifrc strictures on the poetical genius and critical powers of Addis op . Thctfe bate lieen considered by Dr . Kippis in Biog . Briu 2 nd Ed . i . 58 , Sec . . 1
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obviou ^ ^ I uan | 4 g ^ Wt ^ loi ^ t an irifriovabqn Iin | cl % ^ dalJcTi « - cism . In 1751 , he was the reputed author of a pamphlet , in support of the discipline of the University , which passed through three e $ iFrohtev A > 3 ejfeace of this
pamphlet was also attributed to Mr . Hurd . In 1752 y appeared life -ii rst theological ? f > ljflBlix ^ atio # r an Assize Sermon , pr ^ acii ^ d —» l Norwich , on " the mischiefs of eh& 6 sia ^ n ; B ' lL ^ ^ l g ^| 3 $ About the same time he obtained
clerical- preferment , being chosen lC minister of St . Andrews the Little ,-in CaMbfidgd . "' > ? The ^ Ars Poetica was republi ^ hed in 1753 , still anonymously , with an affectionate dedication to Sir Edward I ^ Utlqton , | o whom Mr . Hurd r hacj b ^ eu & ( &
lege-tutpr . The " 'E pistle * tp Augustus ' * was now added in a second volume on the s ^ merpkn as the former , w : ith " a discqurse
on poetical imitation ;} :.. V- This second volqmq was ? put under the protection of . Warburton in a der dicatory epistle , some passages in wtijch can hardly escape the charge of adulation to which such compositions have . been , peculiarly liable . The patron , ~ whpse f cri ticisms &n Pobe and Shak ^ pCare are declared to be "' rfdmimbTe , *' y et merely his " amuseTrieritfe /* is consii ' futAl a ' StUPor 6 ve > flic rep ubl 1 c of letters After being
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406 Mentoir ' of the late Richard WHfrd , D . D . Bishop of Worcester
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/2/
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