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Title: A Pindarick Ode on Painting
Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq.

Author: Thomas Morrison

Commentator: Frederick W. Hilles
J.T. Kirkwood

Release Date: November 2, 2008 [EBook #27130]

Language: English

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Joshua Reynolds was knighted in 1769, two years after this work was
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The Augustan Reprint Society

THOMAS MORRISON

_A PINDARICK ODE ON PAINTING_

_Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq._

(1767)

With a preface by
Frederick W. Hilles
and a biographical introduction by
J. T. Kirkwood

Publication Number 37

Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1952

GENERAL EDITORS

H. RICHARD ARCHER, _Clark Memorial Library_
RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_
RALPH COHEN, _University of California, Los Angeles_
VINTON A. DEARING, _University of California, Los Angeles_

ASSISTANT EDITOR

W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_

ADVISORY EDITORS

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_
BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_
LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_
JOHN BUTT, _King's College, University of Durham_
JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_
EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_
LOUIS A. LANDA, _Princeton University_
SAMUEL H. MONK, _University of Minnesota_
ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_
JAMES SUTHERLAND, _Queen Mary College, London_
H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

EDNA C. DAVIS, _Clark Memorial Library_

PREFACE

The poem here reprinted has remained unread a