See also:EDWARD See also:FAIRFAX (c. 1580-1635)
, See also:English poet, translator of See also:Tasso, was See also:born at See also:Leeds, the second son of See also:Sir 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:Fairfax of See also:Denton (See also:father of the 1st See also:Baron Fairfax of See also:Cameron)
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His See also:legitimacy has been called in question, and the date of his See also:birth has not been ascertained
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He is said to have been only about twenty years of See also:age when he published his See also:translation of the Gerusalemme Liberata, which would See also:place his birth about the See also:year 1580
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He preferred a See also:life of study and retirement to the military service in which his See also:brothers were distinguished
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He married a See also:sister of See also:Walter Laycock, See also:chief alnager of the See also:northern counties, and lived on a small See also:estate at Fewston, See also:Yorkshire
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There his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was spent in his See also:literary pursuits, and in the See also:education of his See also:children and those of his See also:elder See also:brother, Sir Thomas Fairfax, afterwards baron of Cameron
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His translation appeared in 1600, See also:Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Ierusalem, done into English heroicall See also:Verse by Edw
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Fairefax, Gent., and was dedicated to the See also:queen
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It was enthusiastically received
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In the same year in which it was published extracts from it were printed in See also:England's See also:Parnassus
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See also:Edward See also:Phillips, the See also:nephew of See also:Milton, in his Theatrum Poetarum, warmly eulogized the translation
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See also:Edmund See also:Waller said he was indebted to it for the See also:harmony of his See also:numbers
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It is said that it was See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's favourite English poem, and that See also:Charles I. entertained himself in See also:prison with its pages
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Fairfax employed the same number of lines and stanzas as his See also:original, but within the limits of each See also:stanza he allowed himself the greatest See also:liberty
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Other translators may give a more literal version, but Fairfax alone seizes upon the poetical and chivalrous See also:character of the poem
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He presented, says Mr See also:Courthope, " an See also:idea of the chivalrous past of See also:Europe, as seen through the See also:medium of See also:Catholic orthodoxy and classical See also:humanism." The sweetness and See also:melody of many passages are scarcely excelled even by See also:Spenser
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Fairfax made no other See also:appeal to the public
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He wrote, however, a See also:series of eclogues, twelve in number, the See also:fourth of which was published, by permission of the See also:family, in Mrs See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper's See also:Muses' Library (1737)
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Another of the eclogues and a Discourse on See also:Witchcraft, as it was acted in the Family of Mr Edward Fairfax of Fuystone in the See also:county of See also:York in 1621, edited from the original copy by See also:Lord See also:Houghton, appeared in the Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society (1858–1859)
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Fairfax was a See also:firm believer in witchcraft
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He fancied that two of his children had been bewitched, and he had the poor wretches whom he accused brought to trial, but without obtaining a conviction
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Fairfax died at Fewston and was buried there on the 27th of See also:January 1635
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