Richard Savage

5 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

afterwards two plays, Woman's a Riddle, and, Love in a Veil: he was allowed no part of the profits from the first; but by the second he…

He was courted by all who wished to be thought men of genius and taste. At this time he published the Temple of Health and Mirth, on the…

Being thus once more turned adrift upon the world, Savage, whose passions were very strong, and whose gratitude was very small, exposed the…

This poem had an extraordinary sale; and its appearance happening at the time when his mother was at Bath, many persons there repeated…

His distress now became so notorious, that a scheme was at length concerted for procuring him a permanent relief. It was proposed that he…