Note
The present facsimile is reproduced from a copy in the possession of the Library of the University of Goettingen. Shelfmark: H. lit. biogr. I 8464.
Although the title-page of Volume I announces four volumes, the work is continued in a fifth volume of the same date. Like Volumes ii, iii, and iv, it is by “Mr. Cibber, and other Hands” and is “Printed for R. Griffiths”.
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The
Lives
Ofthe
i>
Poets
Of
Great Britain and Ireland.
Compiled from ample Materials scattered
in a Variety of Books, and
especially from the Ms. Notes of the late ingenious
Mr. Coxeter and
others, collected for this Design,
By Mr. Cibber, and other Hands.
Vol. II.
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VOLUME II.
Contains the
Lives
Of
Brewer Newcastle, Duchess May Newcastle, Duke Taylour Birkenhead Habington Boyle, E. Orrery Goldsmith Head Cleveland Hobbs Holiday [sic] Cokaine Nabbes Wharton Shirley Killegrew, Anne Howel Lee Fanshaw Butler Cowley Waller Davenant Ogilby King Rochester [Massinger] Buckingham Stapleton Smith Main Otway Milton [Oldham] Philips [Roscommon]
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A translation of the Ingenious Abbe de MABLY’S
Observations on the
Romans. A learned and curious Performance;
wherein the Policy of that
People is set in so clear a Light, and the Characters
of their great
Men drawn with such a masterly Pen, as cannot but
recommend it to all
Lovers of Classical Learning.
In this Work many new Lights are cast upon the Characters and Conduct of the following celebrated Personages:
Romulus, | Pompey, | Otho, Tarquin the Elder, | Cato, | Vitellius, Servius Tullus, | Caesar, | Vespasian, Brutus, | Cicero, | Titus, The Gracchi, | Antony, | Domitian, Marius, | Augustus, | Nerva, Sylla, | Tiberius, | Trajan, Crassus, | Caligula, | Antoninus, Scipio, | Claudius, | Marcus Aurelius, Hannibal, | Nero, | Diocletian, Pyrrhus, | Galba, | Constantine the Great &c. &c. &c.
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