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Richard Carew

Literature; General literature

(1555-1620) Translator and antiquary, a county gentleman of Cornwall, educated at Oxford, made a translation of the first five cantos of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1594), more correct than that of ...

Robert Montgomery

Literature; General literature

(1807-1855) Poet, a minister of the Scottish Episcopal Church, wrote some ambitious religious poems, including The Omnipresence of the Deity and Satan, which were at first outrageously puffed, and ...

Henry James Byron

Literature; General literature

(1834-1884) Dramatist, born at Manchester, entered the Middle Temple, but soon took to writing for the stage, and produced many popular burlesques and extravaganzas. He also wrote for periodicals, ...

Albert Frederick Pollard

Literature; General literature

(1869) Historical writer. The Jesuits in Poland (1892), England under Protector Somerset (1900), Henry VIII. (Gougiel Series, 1902), Life of Thomas Cranmer (1904), etc., and has contributed largely ...

DE Augustus Morgan

Literature; General literature

(1806-1871) Mathematician, born in India, and educated at Cambridge, was one of the most brilliant of English mathematicians. He is mentioned here in virtue of his Budget of Paradoxes, a series of ...

Jones Very

Literature; General literature

(1813-1880) Essayist and poet, born at Salem, Mass., where he became a clergyman and something of a mystic. He puborn one small volume, Essays and Poems, the latter chiefly in the form of the ...

Fitzgreene Halleck

Literature; General literature

(1790-1867) Poet, born at Guilford, Conn., wrote, with Rodman Drake, a young poet who died at 25, The Croaker Papers, a series of satirical and humorous verses, and Fanny, also a satire. In 1822 he ...