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Updated: October 10, 2026
In fact the verse and prose romances of the time are very closely connected: and Chamberlayne's Pharonnida far the finest production of the English "heroic" school in prose, verse, or drama was, when the fancy for abridging set in, condensed into a tiny prose Eromena. But Ornatus and Artesia, if more modern, more decent, and less extravagant than Parismus, is nothing like so interesting to read.
Oliphant , and many others. Poet, practised medicine at Shaftesbury. On the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Royalists and fought at the second battle of Newbury. He wrote a play, Loves Victory , and an epic Pharonnida . With occasional beauties he is, in the main, heavy and stiff, and is almost forgotten. He influenced Keats. Historical and scientific writer, was b. at Peebles.