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Milton's epistle to Pollio : Translated from the Latin, and illustrated with large explanatory notes

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Type of record: Book

Title: Milton's epistle to Pollio : Translated from the Latin, and illustrated with large explanatory notes

Other titles: Miltonis Epistola ad Pollionem; Epistle to Pollio

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Lt q/PER

Creator(s): King, William (1685-1763)

Related people: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745; Marchmont, Alexander Hume, afterwards Campbell, Earl of, 1675-1740

Publication city: London

Date(s): Printed in the year 1740

Language: English

Size and medium: 19 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/277877

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000643979705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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An anonymous translation of William King's Miltonis Epistola ad Pollionem, not by Milton at all but a political satire on Robert Walpole (Pallas) addressed to Hugh Hume-Campbell, styled Lord Polwarth (Pollio), afterwards 3rd earl of Marchmont.


Indexed in: Foxon K70.

Additional description

Bound with 13 other publications. Volume contents: 1. Loveling, B.: The first satire of Persius imitated, 1740. -- 2. Morris, R.: An enquiry after virtue, [ca. 1740]. -- 3. Boyd, E.: Admiral Haddock, [1740?]. -- 4. Chase, J.: The sixth epistle of the first book of Horace imitated, 1740. -- 5. Anon.: The sixteenth epode of Horace imitated, 1739. -- 6. Anon.: An epistle to the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole, 1739. -- 7. Anon.: An ode... to ... the Prince of Wales, on his birthday, 1739. -- 8. Brereton, R.: A dialogue between Menalcas and Palaemon, [1739]. -- 9. King, W.: Milton's epistle to Pollio, 1740. -- 10. King, W.: Miltonis Epistola ad Pollionem, [1738]. -- 11. West, G.: A canto of the Fairy Queen, 1739. -- 12. Manning, R.: The two first odes of Horace imitated, 1738. -- 13. Lumley, G.: The greatest statesman and the happiest fair, 1738. -- 14. Anon.: Sir *** speech upon the peace, 1739

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