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88 Saga-Book of the Viking Society
of Down and Connor (1783-1804), an Eton friend of Charles
James Fox, to whom he owed the bishopric. There is
a sonnet to him, and the British Museum copy is that
presented to him by Sterling.
Cambuscan and a number of sonnets and other minor
poems are added to the matter published in the earlier
edition of 1782. There are, for example, at p. 226 a
sonnet to Sir Richard M'Guire, Kt, who ascended in
a Balloon at Dublin," at p. 229 another sonnet on the
Eighth of May, the birthday of Miss Graham of Gartmore
and of Edward Gibbon, Esq., and at pp. 230-232 an Ode
for the Installation of the Knights of the Illustrious Order
of St Patrick.
6. Odes. By the Rev. Joseph Sterling (pp. 20, 4to).
London: Printed for T. Payne, Mews-Gate. 1794­
Described above (p. 83).
Of Sterling's publications Numbers 2 (London), 3, 4, 5
and 6 are in the British Museum Library, I, 2 (Dublin) and
6 in the University Library, Cambridge, and 3 and 5 in the
Bodleian Library, Oxford.
3 DUbbed in Dublin by the Lord Lieutenant on I4 May I785, "as a mark of
approbation for his undaunted courage and enterprising spirit in going up in
the balloon"