Author:John Dalton (1709-1763)

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John Dalton
(1709–1763)

English poet and divine

Works[edit]

Sermons[edit]

  • Two Sermons before University of Oxford at St. Mary's, 15 Sept. and 20 Oct. 1745; on the Excellence of an Oxford Education
  • Religious Use of Sickness; a Sermon preached at Bath Abbey Church for the Infirmary, 8 Dec. 1745
  • Sermon before University of Oxford at St. Mary's, 5 Nov. 1747
  • Sermon preached at St. Anne's, Westminster, 25 April, 1751, for Middlesex Hospital (1751)

Poetry[edit]

  • An epistle to a young nobleman from his praeceptor (1736)
  • Two Epistles, the first to a Young Nobleman from his Preceptor, written in the year 1735–6; the second to the Countess of Hartford at Percy Lodge, 1744 (1745)
  • A Descriptive Poem, addressed to two ladies [the two Misses Lowther] at their return from viewing the mines near Whitehaven, to which are added some Thoughts on Building and Planting, to Sir James Lowther (1755)
  • Keswick's hanging woods and mountains wild

Plays[edit]

  • Comus, a Mask, now adapted to the Stage, as alter'd [by J. Dalton], from Milton's Mask (1738)

Works about Dalton[edit]


Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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