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which he held till his death. In the autumn of the following year he joined his wife Lucy in Paris, but ill health compelled him to return to London. He died on Sunday, 21 April 1765 and was buried on 27 April in St. George's cemetery,
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In 1751, three years after the death of Thomson, Mallet published a new version of the masque of 1740. The adaptation was major, with new scenes and songs added. It was acted at Drury Lane on 23 February 1751, with
437: 274:, and some verses for the second edition He had himself written, early in 1725, a poem on the same subject, which was praised by Thomson; and on his return from the continent he prepared for the press 392:, an appeal to patriotic sentiment on the eve of an outbreak of war with France, followed in 1755. It was produced at Drury Lane on 9 May, when Garrick spoke the prologue as a drunken sailor. 380:
remarked on this enterprise that Bolingbroke had "spent his life in charging a gun against Christianity", and "left half-a-crown to a hungry Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death".
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at Drury Lane, with a prologue and epilogue by Aaron Hill. It was acted about thirteen times, and was revived in 1759. Mallet showed his appreciation for Pope with his poem on
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was acted at the same venue during the "half-price riots". Garrick took the part of Don Pedro, the last original character in which he was seen; but it provoked a pamphlet of
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Mallet came into favour with the opposition, and was appointed, 27 May 1742, under-secretary to the Prince of Wales. In 1745 he made a tour in Holland.
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Mallet was probably the second son of James Malloch of Dunruchan, a well-to-do tenant farmer on Lord Drummond's
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and two fellow Scots. In the intervening years Mallet had written lesser works, including the ballad of
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No. 36. Further poems followed, mostly written for John Ker; and in February 1725 he wrote verses on
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in 1720; and during his college days produced a number of short pieces, including an imitation of
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the poet, a future collaborator. In July 1723 he accepted the post of tutor to the sons of the
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in 1793. Shortly before his engagement with the Montrose family he composed the ballad of
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David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: poetry, patronage, and politics in the age of union
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and the anniversary of George I's accession. It was played in the gardens of
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which was published first anonymously in black letter, and then in 1724, in
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as Solyman, it ran for fourteen nights. In 1740 Mallet published a short
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On 2 November 1733 Mallet, with his pupil, matriculated at
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Mallet made more of a reputation with the tragedy of
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David Mallet (dramatist and poet)

Hogarth
University of Edinburgh
Alexander Pope
James Thomson
Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke
William and Margaret
masque
Rule, Britannia!
Perthshire
Roman Catholic
Clan MacGregor
Jacobite Rebellion of 1715
Crieff
John Ker
Edinburgh High School
Dreghorn
University of Edinburgh
James Thomson
Duke of Montrose
Shawford
Winchester
University of Aberdeen
Gosfield
Essex
Alexander Pope
St. Mary Hall, Oxford
Lord Bute
sinecure

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