The Life and Times of the REV. Samuel Wesley; M.A., Rector of Epworth and Father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the Founders of the Methodists (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... "Most other perfections are so far from matching his, that they deserve not to be mentioned; his translations are fine and true; his preaching sublime and rational; and he is a first-rate poet." Motteaux was a native of France, and was driven to England by the revocation of the edict of Nantes. At first, he kept a large East India warehouse in Leadenhall Street. He was master of several languages, and, during his residence in England, he acquired so perfect a knowledge of the English tongue, that he became a very eminent dramatic writer in a language to which he was not a native. On his birthday, in 1717, he was found dead in a disorderly house in London, not without suspicion of having been murdered. In opposition to such eulogists, it is only fair to state, that Dunton describes Wesley's " Life of Christ" as " intolerably dull;" and it has been asserted, that Alexander Pope had so mean an opinion of its merits, that, in one of the early editions of his "Dunciad," he honoured Wesley with a place in the Temple of Durness. DEGREES The work was also fiercely assailed by Samuel Palmer, (to be noticed hereafter, ) to whom Wesley replied, -f- "I know my poem is very faulty; but whether it be in itself so absolutely contemptible as Mr Palmer represents it, I desire may be left to more impartial judges. If he will be so kind as to let me know the particular faults of that poem, I shall own myself highly obliged to him, and will take care to correct them. I am sensible there are too many incorrect lines in it, which had better been left out; but I remember, too, some lines struck out which, perhaps, had been as well left in. I care not if I oblige him with two or three of them, which were in the original but were not printed, and leave him to guess the reason-- * The edition of ...