 | Henry Lee - 1820 - 178 pages
...world, and hand down his name to the latest posterity. He was horn in Barustaple, in the year 1G88, and was the youngest child of Mr. WILLIAM GAY, the...father and mother both dying in or about the year l6p4. The elder brother • Gay's Biographers have differed as to the place of bis birth: Some of them... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1820 - 168 pages
...to entertain the world, and hand down his name to the latest posterity. He was born in Barnstaple, in the year 1688, and was the youngest child of Mr. WILLIAM GAY, the second son of JOHN GAY, Esq. of Fritbelstock,* near Great Torrington, of an ancient and worthy family ; who had been resident in this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1861 - 660 pages
...advanced little in the boast 1 Goldworthy does not appear in the ' Villare.'— JOHNSON. 2 John Gay was the second son of John Gay, Esq., of Frithelstock, near Great Torrington. His father and mother died in or about 1694, leaving two sons (Jonathan, in the army, d. 1709) and... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...the bowers of bliss convey'd A fairer spirit or more welcome shade ! JOHN GAY. (1688-1732.) GAY was the second son of John Gay, Esq. of Frithelstock, near Great Torrington, Devonshire. His parents died during his infancy, and after receiving his education at Bamstaple, the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...and the best-beloved of all the Pope and Swift circle of wits and poets. Gay was born in Devonshire, the second son of John Gay, Esq., of Frithelstock, near Great Torrington. The family was reduced in circumstances, and both parents dying when the poet was about six years of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 396 pages
...Gay ! "' Gay was born in the same year as Pope—the year of ' the glorious Revolution,' 1688. He was the second son of John Gay, Esq. of Frithelstock, near Great Torrington, in Devonshire. He came, therefore, of an ancient family, but its circumstances were greatly decayed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...xii. 227 ; ^Barnstaple ParishReg. 1538-1812, ed. Thos. Wainwright, 1903.] [' He was born in Barnstaple in the year 1688 (?) and was the youngest child of...Great Torrington, of an ancient and worthy family.' Gay's Chair, 1820, p. 12 ; which has a Memoir of Gay said to be from a MS. life, left by his nephew... | |
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JSarnstaple, in the year 1688, " and was the youngest child of Mr. WILLIAM GAY, " the second son of JOHN GAY, Esq. of Frithelstock, " near Great Torrington, of an ancient and worthy " family, who had been resident in this county several " centuries. He,... 