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JOHN HOOLE (2727-1803)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HOOLE (2727-1803)  , See also:English translator and dramatist, son of a watchmaker and machinist, See also:Samuel See also:Hoole, was See also:born at Moorfields, See also:London, in See also:December 1727 . He was educated at a private school at See also:Hoddesdon, See also:Hertfordshire, kept by See also:James Bennet, who edited See also:Ascham's English See also:works . At the See also:age of seventeen he became a clerk in the See also:accountants' See also:department of the See also:East See also:India See also:House, and before 1767 became one of the auditors of See also:Indian accounts . His leisure See also:hours he devoted to the study of Latin and especially See also:Italian, and began See also:writing See also:translations of the See also:chief works of the Italian poets . He published translations of the See also:Jerusalem Delivered of See also:Tasso in 1763, the Orlando Furioso of See also:Ariosto in 1773-1783, the Dramas of iMetastasio in 1767, and Rinaldo, an See also:early See also:work of Tasso, in 1792 . Among his plays are: See also:Cyrus (1768), See also:Timanthes (1770) and Cleonice, Princess of See also:Bithynia (1775), none of which achieved success . The verses of Hoole were praised by See also:Johnson, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, but, though correct, smooth and flowing, they cannot be commended for any other merit . His See also:translation of the Orlando Furioso was superseded by the version (1823—1831) of W . S . See also:Rose . Hoole was also the friend of the Quaker poet See also:John See also:Scott of Amwell (1730-1783), whose See also:life he wrote; it was prefixed to Scott's See also:Critical Essays (1785) . In 1773 he was promoted to be chief auditor of Indian accounts, an See also:office which he resigned in 1785 .

In 1786 he retired to the parsonage of See also:

Abinger, See also:Surrey; and afterwards lived at See also:Tenterden, See also:Kent, dying at See also:Dorking on the 2nd of See also:April 1803 . See Anecdotes of the Life of the See also:late Mr John Hoole, by his surviving See also:brother, Samuel See also:Hook (London, 1803) . Some of his plays are re-printed in J . See also:Bell's See also:British See also:Theatre (1797) .

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