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WARTBERG, or Szkncz, a town of Hungary; 13 
miles east-north-east of Presburg. Population 1600 
WARTENBERG, a town of Prussian Silesia; 32 miles 
east-north-east of Breslau. Population 1600. 
WARTENBURG, a town of East Prussia; 60 miles south 
of Konigsberg. Old Wartenburg is a village in the neigh¬ 
bourhood. Population 1900. 
WARTER, a parish of England, in Yorkshire; 5 miles 
east-by-north of Poeklington. 
WARTH, or Wardhill, a hill in Orkney, on the south 
side of Pomona island. 
WARTHAL, or Wardhall, a township of England, 
in Cumberland; 5 miles north of Cockermouth. 
WARTHERMASK, a township of England, in York¬ 
shire ; 7^ miles south-west-by-south of Bedale. 
WARTH-HILL, a hill of Scotland, in Caithness, in the 
parish of Canisbay. 
WARTHILL, a parish of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5'- miles north-east-by-east of York. 
WARTHOLM, a small island in Orkney, near South 
Ronaldshay. 
WARTLING, a parish of England, in Sussex; 4| miles 
east-by-south of Haylsham. Population 874. 
WARTNABY, a hamlet of England, county of Leicester; 
4f miles north-west of Melton Mowbray. 
WARTON, a township of England, in Lancashire; 8 
miles north-by-east of Lancaster.—-2. Another township in 
the above county; 3 miles from Kirkham.—3. A hamlet of 
England, in Northumberland; 14 miles south-west-by-west 
of Alnwick. 
WARTON (Joseph, D.D.), was born in 1722, and en¬ 
tered at the age of fourteen years on the foundation at Win¬ 
chester-school, and in 1740 at Oriel college, Oxford. After 
having taken the degree of B.D. he became curate to his 
father, and in 1744 exercised the same office at Chelsea. In 
this year he published a small volume of “ Odes,” and in 
1748 he was presented by the duke of Bolton to the rectory 
of Winslade, and soon after married. In 1751 he accom¬ 
panied his patron on a tour to the south of France, and in 
1753 completed his edition of Virgil in Latin and English ; 
the iEneid being in Pitt’s translation, and the Eclogues and 
Georgies in his own ; adding notes. To the “ Adventurer” 
he became a contributor. In 1756, he published without his 
name, an “Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope,” in 
which he intermixes praise with reflections that tend to de¬ 
grade this poet to the class of those who have been votaries 
of reason rather than of imagination. Failing to convince the 
public that his estimate of Pope’s talents was just, he deferred 
the publication of his second volume for twenty-six years. In 
1766 he was advanced to the station of head-master of Win¬ 
chester school. His subsequent preferments were numerous, 
but small, and he obtained them late in life: in 1782, the 
friendship of bishop Lowth procured for him a prebend of 
St. Paul’s and the living of Thorley in Hertfordshire; and 
in 1788 he was advanced to a prebend of Winchester and 
the rectory of Easton. He w'as engaged to superintend an 
edition of Pope’s Works, which appeared in 9 vols. 8vo., in 
1797, with notes critical and biographical, partly selected 
from his former essay, and a life of the poet. When this 
work was finished, he undertook an edition of Dryden, and 
had prepared two volumes at the time of his death, which 
happened in February, 1800, in his 78th year. His “ Ode 
to Fancy,” first printed in Dodsley’s Collection, is thought 
to have been most admired, and to afford the fairest specimen 
of his talents. 
WARTON (Thomas), brother of the preceding, was born 
at Basingstoke in 1728, and manifested, by his translation 
of an epigram of Martial in his ninth year, an early taste for 
versification. In 1743 he was admitted a commoner of Tri¬ 
nity college, Oxford, where he distinguished himself, in his 
twenty-first year, by his “ Triumph of Isis,” in vindication 
of the university against the reflections of Mason’s elegy of 
“ Isis.” This poem, however, he afterwards excluded from 
his volume of collected pieces. His “ Progress of Discon¬ 
tent," said to have been written as a college-exercise in' 
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1746, gained him reputation. Having taken his degree of 
M.A. in 1750, he became in the following year a fellow of 
his college; and devoted himself to poetry and elegant litera¬ 
ture. Besides his “ Newmarket,” a spirited satire against the 
ruinous passion for the turf; his ode for Music; Verses on 
the death of the prince of'Wales; and his editorship, in 
1753, of a collection of poems, entitled the “ Union,” and 
containing several of his own pieces, severally contributed 
to his reputation ; his observations on Spenser’s Fairy 
Queen, published in 1754, first in one volume and afterwards 
in two volumes, were of essential service in making him known 
as a critic, and as one conversant with poetical antiquities; 
and they prepared the way for his election, in 1757, to the 
office of professor of poetry to the university, which he occu¬ 
pied for ten years, with an erudition and taste that rendered 
his lectures instructive and amusing. Our limits will not 
allow us to enumerate his various publications, but we shall 
proceed to other details of greater importance. Having 
taken the degree of B.D. in 1761, he was instituted to the 
small living of Kiddington, in Oxfordshire, in 1771. His 
edition of Theocritus, in 2 vols. 4to. was published in 1770, 
and very much contributed to his literary celebrity both at 
home and on the continent. It was probably about this 
time that he formed a design of writing a “ History of Po¬ 
etry,” which had been contemplated by Pope, Gray, and 
Mason. The first volume in quarto was published in 
1774, the second appeared in 1778, and a third was pre¬ 
sented to the public in 1781. His plan was much more ex¬ 
tensive, and intended to terminate only with the commence¬ 
ment of the eighteenth century ; but he became tired of the 
task, and wished for relaxation, so that he prepared only a 
few sheets of a fourth volume. This Opus Magnum, as it 
may be well denominated, exhibits an extent of research and 
reading, and a correctness of taste and critical judgment;, 
which do him great honour. In such a comprehensive and 
multifarious work, some inaccuracies are unavoidable; but 
the most fastidious critic must acknowledge, that it abounds 
with curious and interesting information. In 1781 he pro¬ 
jected a county history of Oxfordshire, and in 1782 he pub¬ 
lished a specimen of his undertaking in a topographical ac¬ 
count of his parish of Kiddington; but he was probably 
discouraged by the magnitude and labour of such a work. 
In this year he took part in the controversy concerning 
Rowley’s poems which he decidedly pronounced to be the 
fabrication of their pretended editor. His views with regard 
to promotion were restricted; however, his income was at 
this time increased by a donative in Somersetshire, and in 
1785 by the office of Camden-professor of history at Oxford; 
and soon after by the post of poet-laureat. An edition of 
Milton’s juvenile poems, with notes for illustrating their 
beauties and explaining their obsolete and peculiar phraseo¬ 
logy, appeared in 1785. In his 62d year he was attacked 
with a paroxvsm of the gout, and this was succeeded in May 
1790 by a paralytic seizure, which terminated his life at his 
lodgings in Oxford. 
WA'RTWORT, s. [yerrucaria, Lat.] Spurge. Ains- 
ivorth. 
WA'RTY, adj. Grown over with warts. 
WARU, a river of Brazil, in the province of Seara, which 
rises near the coast, and enters the sea. 
WARWICKSHIRE, an inland county of England, situ¬ 
ated in the centre of the country, in a north-west direction 
from the metropolis. It is bounded on the north-east by 
Leicestershire, on the east by Northamptonshire, on the 
south-east by Oxfordshire, on the south-west by Gloucester¬ 
shire, on the west by Worcestershire, and on the north-west 
by Staffordshire, being in length about 50 miles, and in 
breadth 35. It contains 984 square statute miles, equal to 
639,760 square acres, of which about 154,530 acres are in 
a constant course of tillage; having 190,000 acres arable* 
and 300,000 pasturage. 
The general aspect of this county is an agreeable alter¬ 
nation of hill and dale, eminently beautiful to behold, and 
remarkably conducive to the purposes of agriculture. In the 
vicinity of its Streams, on the sides of its gentle hills, and in the 
breaks 
