Dictiony of English Literature (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...printed in 1615. Warton points out that this drama is burlesqued in Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Fettle (q.v.). It was evidently designed to ridicule the prevalent fashion of reading chivalrous romances. "Long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The." See Ghat's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, stanza 10. Long, Edward, miscellaneous writer (1. 1734, d. 1813), was author of a History of Jamaica (1774). Long, George, classical scholar (b. 1800), has written works on Soman Law (1846), France end it Revolutions (1849), and The Decline and Fall of the Soman Republic (1864--74); besides translations from Marcus Aurelius, Herodotus, Plutarch, Cicero, Sallust, and CsBsar. Long Story, A. A humorous descriptive poem by Thomas Gray (1716--1771). Thomansion with its " passages that led to nothing" was Lady Cobham's seat. Long, Thomas, Non-juring divine (b. 1621, d. 1700), wrote The Unreasonableness of Separation; Dr. Walker's True, Modest, and Faithful Account of the Author of Eikon Basil ike; and many other works. See Wood's Athena Oxonienses. Long, Tom. The hero of a popular story called The Merry Conceits of Tom Long, the Carrier, containing many Pleasant Passages and Mad Pranks which he observed in his Travels. Long Tom Coffin. See Coffin, Long Tom. Longaville. A courtier in attendance on the King of Navarre, in Love's Labour's Lost (q.v.). Longbeard, The Life and Death of William: "the most famous and wittie English traitor, borne in the Citie of London, accompanied with many other pleasant and prettie histories," by Thomas Lodge (1556--1626); printed in 1593. Dr. Charles Mackay has made the Hfo of Longbeard the subject of an interesting work. Longer thou livest the more Poole thou art. The: "a very Mery and Pyt...