See also:
- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:
- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- THOMAS BROWN (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
BROWN (1663-1704)
,
English satirist, of " facetious memory " as
Addison designates him, was the son of a
farmer at
Shifnal, in
Shropshire, and was
born in 1663
.
He was entered in 1678 at;
Christ See also:
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church,
See also:
- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he is said to have escaped
expulsion by the famous lines beginning, " I do not love thee, Dr
Fell." He was for three years schoolmaster at
Kingston-on-
Thames, and afterwards settled in
London
.
Under the
pseudonym of Dudly Tomkinson he wrote a
satire on
Dryden, The Reasons of Mr Bays changing his
Religion: considered in a
Dialogue between Crites,
Eugenius and Mr Bays, with two other parts having
separate titles (1688-169o, republished with additions in 1691)
.
He was the author of a
great variety of poems, letters, dialogues and lampoons, full of
humour and erudition, but coarse and scurrilous
.
His writings have a certain value for the knowledge they display of
low life in London
.
He died on the 16th of
June 1704, and was buried in the
cloister of
Westminster Abbey
.
His collected
works were published in 1707-1708
.
The second
volume contains a collection of Letters from the Dead to the Living, some of which are translated from the
French
.
His Comical
Romance done into English (1772, the
Roman Comique of
Scarron) was reprinted in 1892
.
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