See also:FELTHAM, or FELLTHAM, See also:OWEN (d. 1668)
, See also:English moralist, was the son of 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:Feltham or Felltham of Mutford in See also:Suffolk
.
The date of his See also:birth is given variously as 1602 and 1609
.
Hs is famous chiefly as the author of a See also:volume entitled Resolves,Divine, Moral and See also:Political, containing one See also:hundred See also:short and pithy essays
.
To later issues of the Resolves Feltham appended Lusoria, a collection of See also:forty poems
.
Hardly anything is known of his See also:life except that T
.
See also:Randolph, the adopted " son" of See also:Ben See also:Jonson, addressed a poem of compliment to him, and became his friend, and that Feltham attacked Ben Jonson in an See also:ode shortly before the aged poet's See also:death, but contributed a flattering See also:elegy to the Jonsonus See also:Virbius in 1638
.
See also:Early in life Feltham visited See also:Flanders, and published observations in 1652 under the See also:title of A Brief See also:Character of the See also:Low Countries
.
He was a strict high-churchman and a royalist; he even described See also:Charles I. as " See also:Christ the Second." See also:Hallam stigmatized Feltham as one of our worst writers
.
He has not, indeed, the elegance of See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon, whom he emulated, and he is often obscure and affected; but his copious imagery and genuine penetration give his reflections a certain See also:charm
.
To the See also:middle classes of the 17th See also:century he seemed a See also:heaven-sent philosopher and See also:guide, and was only less popular than See also:Francis See also:Quarles the poet
.
Eleven See also:editions of the Resolves appeared before 17oo
.
Later . editions by 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 See also:Cumming (See also:London, 1806; much garbled; has See also:account of Feltham's life and writings), and O
.
See also:Smeaton in " See also:Temple See also:Classics " See also:series (London, 1904)
.
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