See also:IRIARTE (or YRIARTE) Y OROPESA, TOMAS DE (1750-1791)
, See also:Spanish poet, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:September 1750, at Orotava in the See also:island of See also:Teneriffe, and received his See also:literary See also:education at See also:Madrid under the care of his See also:uncle, Juan de See also:Iriarte, librarian to the 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 of See also:Spain
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In his eighteenth See also:year the See also:nephew began his literary career by translating See also:French plays for the royal See also:theatre, and in 1770, under the See also:anagram of Tirso Imarete, he published an See also:original See also:comedy entitled Hacer que kace2nos
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In the following year he became See also:official translator at the See also:foreign See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and in 1776 keeper of the records in the See also:war See also:department
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In 178o appeared a dull didactic poem in cilvas entitled La Mitsica, which attracted some See also:attention in See also:Italy as well as at See also:home
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The Fdbulas literarias (1781), with which his name is most intimately associated, are composed in a See also:great variety of metres, and show considerable ingenuity in their humorous attacks on literary men and methods; but their merits have been greatly exaggerated
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During his later years, partly in consequence of the Fdbulas, Iriarte was absorbed in See also:personal controversies, and in 1786 was reported to the See also:Inquisition for his sympathies with the French philosophers
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He died on the 17th of September 1791
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Iie is the subject of an exhaustive monograph (1897) by Emilio Cotarelo y Mori
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