Author:Samuel Derrick

Samuel Derrick
(1724–1769)

Samuel Derrick

Works

• The dramatic censor; remarks upon the tragedy of Venice preserv'd (1752)
• A View of the Stage (1759)
• The miscellaneous works of John Dryden, esq, containing all his original poems, tales, and translations (1760), in 4 vols.
• A Collection of Voyages (1762), in 2 vols.
• Letters written from Leverpooke, Chester, Corke, the Lake of Killarney, Dublin, Tunbridge-Wells (1767), in 2 vols.

Translations

• Sylla,’ a dramatic entertainment, from the French of the king of Prussia (1753)
• A Voyage from the Moon,’ from the French of Bergerac (1753)
• Memoirs of the Count de Beauval,’ from the French of D'Argens, 1754)
• The Third Satire of Juvenal translated into English verse (1755)
• The Battle of Lora. A poem, with some fragments written in the Erse, or Irish language, by Ossian, the son of Fingal. Translated into English Verse (1762)

Works about Derrick

• "Derrick, Samuel," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.