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He was at odds with him, however, on the question of rhyme, the use of which he wrote against in very indifferent blank verse. Puritan divine, b. at Loughborough, of which his f. was curate, studied at Camb., and became, in 1652, minister of Great Torrington, Devonshire, where he was famous for the unusual length of his sermons and prayers.
SUMMARY. B. 1788, spent childhood in Aberdeen, ed. Harrow and Camb., pub.
In 1616 appeared his Cloud of Witnesses confirming ... the truth of God's most holie Word. His maps were coll. and with descriptions pub. in 1611 as Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain. Historian and antiquary, b. at Congham, Norfolk, studied at Camb., and entered Lincoln's Inn. He sat in Parliament and on various commissions, and in recompense of his labours was voted a grant of £300.
Peter's Complaint and The Burning Babe, a short poem of great imaginative power, and of several prose religious works, including St. Mary Magdalene's Teares, A Short Rule of Good Life, The Triumphs over Death, etc. Edmunds and Camb., was for some years in the Colonial Office.
He studied probably at Camb., visited Rome, and was a client of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, whose life he wrote.
Poet and divine, s. of a wealthy ironmonger in London, where he was b. Brought up as a Roman Catholic, he was sent to Oxf. and Camb., and afterwards entered Lincoln's Inn with a view to the law. Here he studied the points of controversy between Romanists and Protestants, with the result that he joined the Church of England.
Writer on art and travel, ed. at Winchester and Camb., and travelled for several years in Spain, becoming intimately acquainted with the country and people.
Controversialist and moral writer, b. at Plymouth, and ed. at Oxf., took orders, and held various benefices, including the Rectory of Bath Abbey and a prebend at Worcester. He came under the influence of the Camb. His chief work is the Vanity of Dogmatizing which contains the story of "The Scholar Gipsy," in later days turned to such fine account by Matthew Arnold.
He has a place in literature for his History of Canada in 10 vols., a work of careful research, though not distinguished for purely literary merits. Novelist and historian, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Holne Vicarage near Dartmoor, but passed most of his childhood at Barnack in the Fen country, and Clovelly in Devonshire, ed. at King's Coll., London, and Camb.
Later and fuller ed. have followed. P. left his books, MSS., and collections to Magdalene Coll., Camb., where they are preserved in a separate library. Poet, b. at Berlin, Conn., was a precocious child, and a morbid and impractical, though versatile man, with a fatal facility in writing verse on all manner of subjects and in nearly every known metre.
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