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MATTHEW GREEN (1696-1737)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MATTHEW See also:GREEN (1696-1737)  , See also:English poet, was See also:born of See also:Nonconformist parents . He had a See also:post in the See also:custom See also:house, and the few anecdotes that have been preserved of him show him to have been as witty as his poems would See also:lead one to expect . He died unmarried at his lodging in Nag's See also:Head See also:Court, See also:Grace-See also:church See also:Street, in 1737 . His Grotto, a poem on See also:Queen See also:Caroline's grotto at See also:Richmond, was printed in 1732; and his See also:chief poem, The See also:Spleen, in 1737 with a See also:preface by his friend See also:Richard See also:Glover . These and some other See also:short poems were printed in See also:Dodsley's collection (1748), and subsequently in various See also:editions of the See also:British poets . They were edited in 1796 with a preface by Dr See also:Aikin and in 1883 by R . E . A . Willmott with the poems of See also:Gray and others . The Spleen is an See also:epistle to Mr See also:Cuthbert See also:Jackson, The funds thus acquired were, to a large extent, expended in making public improvements . A clause inserted in all deeds forbade the See also:sale of intoxicating liquors on the See also:land concerned, under See also:pain of the reversion of such See also:property to the See also:colony . The See also:initiation fees ($5) were used for the expenses of locating the colony, and the membership certificate fees ($15o) were expended in the construction of irrigating ditches, as was the See also:money received from the sale of See also:town lots, except about $13,000 invested in a school See also:building (now the Meeker Building) .

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Greeley was organized as a town in 1871, and was chartered as a See also:city of the second class in 1886 . The "See also:Union Colony of See also:Colorado" still exists as an incorporated See also:body and holds reversionary rights in streets, alleys and public grounds, and in all places " where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, sold or given away, as a beverage." See Richard T . See also:Ely, " A Study of a ' Decreed ' Town," Harper's See also:Magazine, vol . 1o6 (1902—1903), p . 390 sqq .

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