The perjur'd monarch: a satire on the K--g of P--ssia : Translated from the original French by J. W---s. This piece having raised the curiosity of all Europe, has been handed about by the Embassadors of all the courts, and is justly esteemed the soul of satire, as it reprehends vice in the royal character, abstracted from the personage.---The spirit of British freedom runs thro' the whole, tho' written by a Frenchman.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Verse satire, French--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.

Verse satire, French.

Genre:

Satires.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8p. )

Other Title:

Perjur'd monarch

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed by Z. Martineau, next door to the Play-house on the Lower Blind Quay; where subscriptions are taken in for printing a beautiful and correct edition of the Harleian miscellany, M DCC XLIV. [1744]

Notes:

Sometimes attributed to James Eyre Weekes.

Possibly written originally in English.

Verse.

An attack on the military adventures of Frederick II, 1712-1786, King of Prussia.

Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T213050.

OCLC:

510557528