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Sir Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719) was a English physician and poet, born at Bolam in the county of Durham, and educated at Cambridge, he settled as a dr. in
London, in which he presently acquired the big practice. He was the great Whig,
a friend of Addison &, though of different political views, of Pope,
& he ended his career when md to George We., by whom he was knighted around 1714. He is remembered when andy skinner of The Dispensary, a irony, which got wonderful popularity within its day, & of Claremont, a
descriptive verse form. He too edited the translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, to
which Addison, Pope, & others contributed. Peradventure, even so, the
circumstance virtually all honorable to him is his intervention to procure an
honorable burial for Dryden, all over whose remains he pronounced the eulogy. Awhile, he owned a manor at Edgcott.
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Samuel Garth (1661-1719) Text of Samuel Johnson's biography of the poet and The Dispensary. |
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