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A coll. ed. of his poems appeared in 1720, among the subscribers to which were Pope, Steele, Arbuthnot, and Gay.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

—Poet, s. of an usher in a charity school, was b. at Loughborough, and ed. at Camb., where he became coll. tutor and lecturer on rhetoric at St. John's, and was much sought after.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

His verses, however, attracted attention by their merit, and he pub. some of them in a coll. form.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

Milton. pros. prosody. coll., colloq. colloquially. min. mineralogy. prov. provincial. comp. comparative. mod. modern. q.v. which see. conch. conchology.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

His maps were coll. and with descriptions pub. in 1611 as Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)