Samuel Boyce

He published one play, entitled The Rover, or Happiness at Last, a dramatic pastoral (1752), which was never performed.

In its preface, he claimed that this was due to its length, and not to its lack of merit.

[1] In 1757, he published Poems on Several Occasions, which included an ode entitled Glory, addressed to the Duke of Cumberland, and a heroic poem in two cantos, dedicated to actor David Garrick, called Paris, or the Force of Beauty.

The frontispiece, engraved by Boyce himself, was an allegorical scene depicting "Fortune obstructing the Genius of Poetry in its ascent to the Temples of Learning and Fame".

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The frontispiece to Boyce's Poems on Several Occasions (1757)