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THOMAS BROWN (1663-1704)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 662 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS BROWN (1663-1704)  ,
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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 Church, 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-
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Thames, and afterwards settled in
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London . Under the pseudonym of Dudly Tomkinson he wrote a satire on Dryden, The Reasons of Mr Bays changing his Religion: considered in a
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Dialogue between Crites,
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Eugenius and Mr Bays, with two other parts having
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separate titles (1688-169o, republished with additions in 1691) . He was the author of a
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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
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life in London . He died on the 16th of
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June 1704, and was buried in the cloister of Westminster Abbey . His collected
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works were published in 1707-1708 . The second
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volume contains a collection of Letters from the Dead to the Living, some of which are translated from the French . His Comical
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Romance done into English (1772, the
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Roman Comique of Scarron) was reprinted in 1892 .

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