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contexture, and moral of the fEneid, Trapp has exprefled with great
precifion ; and in a clofe adherence to Virgil, has given his account of
the addons of -Tineas with rigid exadnefs; but the glowing feries of whatever
is great, elegant, pathetic and fublime, cannot be difcovered in the tranl-
lation, on which the well known epigram will be remembered much
longer than the verfion which gave occafion to itr
st Heed the Commandment, Trapp; proceed no further;
i< Is it not written, “ thou ihalt do no murther ?”
In the year 1711 he was chaplain to the lord chancellor of Ireland, and
in that year he published “ A Character of the prefent fet of Whigs/"
which Swift, who conveyed it to the printer,. calls“ a very fcurvy piece.”*
In a fhort time after he printed at Dublin a poem on the duke of Ormond.,
which was re-printed at London, of which it is faid by Swift that the
printer fold only eleven. Having mentioned to Stella that Trapp and
Sacheverell had been to vifit him, Swift adds, “ Trapp, is a coxcomb, and
the other is not very deep ; and their j udgment of things of wit and fenfe.
is miraculous”-j-,
Dr. Trapp’s preferments were the redory of Chrift-church in Newgate-
Street, and St. Leonard’s in Fofter Lane,. London; the ledurefhip of St.
Martin’s in the Fields, and the redory of Harlington in Middlefex, to
which he was prefented by lord Bolingbroke in 1731. Three years
before this period (Feb. 1,. 1727-8) he was created D. D. by diploma,
In 1712 he married Mifs White, daughter of Mr. Aiderman White, of
St. Mary’s, Oxford, by whom he had two fons, Henry, (fo called after
his patron, Henry Vifcount Bolingbroke) who died an infant 5 and
J.ofeph, who in 1734 became fellow of New-college, Oxford, and died in
1769, leaving only two daughters, not long fince redding at Reading, in
JBerkfhire.
• Journal to Stella, May 14, 17:1. f Journal, March 17, 1711,
precifion ; and in a clofe adherence to Virgil, has given his account of
the addons of -Tineas with rigid exadnefs; but the glowing feries of whatever
is great, elegant, pathetic and fublime, cannot be difcovered in the tranl-
lation, on which the well known epigram will be remembered much
longer than the verfion which gave occafion to itr
st Heed the Commandment, Trapp; proceed no further;
i< Is it not written, “ thou ihalt do no murther ?”
In the year 1711 he was chaplain to the lord chancellor of Ireland, and
in that year he published “ A Character of the prefent fet of Whigs/"
which Swift, who conveyed it to the printer,. calls“ a very fcurvy piece.”*
In a fhort time after he printed at Dublin a poem on the duke of Ormond.,
which was re-printed at London, of which it is faid by Swift that the
printer fold only eleven. Having mentioned to Stella that Trapp and
Sacheverell had been to vifit him, Swift adds, “ Trapp, is a coxcomb, and
the other is not very deep ; and their j udgment of things of wit and fenfe.
is miraculous”-j-,
Dr. Trapp’s preferments were the redory of Chrift-church in Newgate-
Street, and St. Leonard’s in Fofter Lane,. London; the ledurefhip of St.
Martin’s in the Fields, and the redory of Harlington in Middlefex, to
which he was prefented by lord Bolingbroke in 1731. Three years
before this period (Feb. 1,. 1727-8) he was created D. D. by diploma,
In 1712 he married Mifs White, daughter of Mr. Aiderman White, of
St. Mary’s, Oxford, by whom he had two fons, Henry, (fo called after
his patron, Henry Vifcount Bolingbroke) who died an infant 5 and
J.ofeph, who in 1734 became fellow of New-college, Oxford, and died in
1769, leaving only two daughters, not long fince redding at Reading, in
JBerkfhire.
• Journal to Stella, May 14, 17:1. f Journal, March 17, 1711,