See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• JOHN DYER (c. 1700-1758)
• DYER, SIR EDWARD (d. 1607)
• DYER, THOMAS HENRY (1804-1888)

DYER (c. 1700-1758)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British poet, the son of a See also:

• SOLICITOR

solicitor, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1699 or 1700 at Aberglasney, in See also:

• CARMARTHENSHIRE

Carmarthenshire . He was sent to See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster school and was destined for the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, but on his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• DEATH

death he began to study See also:

• PAINTING

painting . He wandered about See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales, sketching and occasionally painting portraits . In 1726 his first poem, Grongar See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

Hill, appeared in a See also:

• MISCELLANY

miscellany published by See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

Savage, the poet . It was an irregular See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode in the so-called Pindaric See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, but See also:

• DYER, JOHN (c. 1700-1758)
• DYER, SIR EDWARD (d. 1607)
• DYER, THOMAS HENRY (1804-1888)

Dyer entirely rewrote it into a loose measure of four cadences, and printed it separately in 1727 . It had an immediate and brilliant success . Grongar Hill, as it now stands, is a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short poem of only 150 lines, describing in See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language of much freshness and picturesque See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm the view from a hill overlooking the poet's native vale of Towy . A visit to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy See also:

• BORE

bore See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit in The Ruins of See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome (1740), a descriptive piece in about 600 lines of Miltonic See also:

• BLANK (from the Fr. blanc, white)

blank See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse . He was ordained See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest in 1741, and. held successively the livings of Calthorp in See also:

• LEICESTERSHIRE

Leicestershire, Belchford (1751), Coningsby (1752), and See also:

• KIRBY, WILLIAM (1759–1850)

Kirby-on-Bane (1756), the last three being See also:

• LINCOLNSHIRE

Lincolnshire parishes . He married, in 1741, a See also:

• MISS

Miss Ensor, said to be descended from the See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare . In 1757 he published his longest See also:

• WORK

work, the didactic blank-verse epic of The Fleece, in four books, discoursing'of the tending of See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep, of the shearing and preparation of the See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool, of See also:

• WEAVING

weaving, and of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in woollen manufactures . The See also:

• TOWN

town took no See also:

• INTEREST

interest in it, and Dodsleyfacetiously prophesied that " Mr Dyer would be buried in woollen." He died at Coningsby of See also:

• CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

consumption, on the 15th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1758 .

His peoms were collected by See also:

• DODSLEY, ROBERT (1703-1764)

Dodsley in 1770, and by Mr See also:

• EDWARD

Edward 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 in 1903 for the Welsh Library, vol. iv .