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[63] Sir James Macintosh, Encyclopædia Britannica.
[64] The English Church and its Bishops. By Charles J. Abbey. Vol. i., p. 236.
[66] The Life and Opinions of the Rev. William Law, M.A. By J. H. Overton, M.A. P. 243.
[67] Middleton's Miscellaneous Works, vol. i., p. 402.
[68] The first edition of Edwards's work was entitled Supplement to Mr. Warburton's edition of Shakespeare, 1747. The third edition (1750) was called The Canons of Criticism and Glossary by Thomas Edwards. Of this volume seven editions were published. Edwards, who was born in 1699, died in 1757.
INDEX OF MINOR POETS AND PROSE WRITERS.
John Armstrong (1709-1779), a Scotchman by birth, practised in London as a physician after some surgical experience in the navy. Believing any subject suitable for poetry, he wrote in blank verse, reminding one of Thomson, The Art of Preserving Health (1744), a poem containing some powerful passages, and many which are better fitted for a medical treatise than for poetry. An earlier and licentious poem The Economy of Love, which injured him in his profession, was 'revised and corrected by the author' in 1768.