Samuel Boyce
Samuel Boyce (died 1775) was an English engraver and poet. He began as an engraver and later worked at the South Sea House. He published one play, The Rover, or Happiness at Last (1752), a dramatic pastoral that was never performed; in the preface he said this was because of its length, not its merit. In 1757 he issued Poems on Several Occasions, which includes an ode titled Glory addressed to the Duke of Cumberland, and a two-canto heroic poem, Paris, or the Force of Beauty, dedicated to the actor David Garrick. The frontispiece, engraved by Boyce himself, shows an allegorical scene of Fortune obstructing the Genius of Poetry on its ascent to the Temples of Learning and Fame. He was a friend of Christopher Smart and published a poem praising Smart’s Song to David in the Public Advertiser in July 1763. He died on 21 March 1775.
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