shenfield

Updated: June 18, 2025

The "Fourth Night" was addressed by "a much-indebted Muse" to the Honourable Mr. Yorke, now Lord Hardwicke, who meant to have laid the Muse under still greater obligation, by the living of Shenfield, in Essex, if it had become vacant. The "First Night" concludes with this passage: "Dark, though not blind, like thee, Meonides; Or, Milton, thee.

Samuel Johnson - Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2