Note 147 — EPISTLE TO NATHANIEL LISTER, Esq. OF LICHFIELD, ON HAVING READ HIS VERSES IN MANUSCRIPT, WRITTEN DECEMBER 1786.[141]
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l. 20. Intellectual rays—Mr Seward’s life was preserved by the skill and attention of Dr. Jones, of Lichfield, more than three years after the composition of the above poem. Mr Seward resided in the Bishop’s palace at Lichfield, the last 32 years of his life, as did his predecessor, Mr Walmsley, the learned, and liberal patron of David Garrick, and Samuel Johnson.