=Congreve [k[)o]ng´gr[=e]v], Wm.= 1670-1729. Dramatist. Author of the tragedy of The Mourning Bride, and of The Double Dealer, Old Bachelor, Love for Love, and other coarse but brilliant comedies. _See edition by Leigh Hunt, London, 1849._ =Conybeare [k[)u]n´[)i]-b[)e]r], John.= 1692-1755. Theologian of note. =Conybeare, John Josias.= 1779-1824. Grandson to J. C. Antiquary. Author of Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, a work of much value. =Conybeare, Wm. Daniel.= 1787-1857. Geological writer of note. =Conybeare, Wm. John.= ---- 1857. Theologian. Author with Dean Howson of The Life and Epistles of St. Paul. _Pub. Ran. Scr._ =Cook, Eliza.= 181 Poet. Author of The Old Arm Chair, etc. Style simple and tender. =Coombe [koom], Wm.= 1741-1823. A voluminous satirical and humorous writer, best known by his poem Dr. Syntax. _Pub. Rou._ =Cooper, Anthony Ashley.= 3d Earl of Shaftesbury. 1671-1713. Ethical writer. Author of Characteristics of Men, etc. =Copleston [kop´[e^]l-st[o^]n], Edward.= 1776-1849. Bp. Llandaff. Theological writer. =Corbet, Richard.= 1562-1635. Bp. Norwich. Poet of indifferent merit. =Cornwall, Barry=. See Procter, B. W. =Coryat, Thomas.= 1577-1617. Writer of travels. Best known by Coryat's Crudities, entertaining, but full of affectations. =Costello, Dudley.= 1803-1865. Novelist. Author Stories from a Screen, Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady, The Millionaire, etc. =Costello, Louisa Stuart.= 1815-1870. Novelist and writer of travels. Sister to D. C. Author of The Queen Mother, the Rose Garden of Persia, etc. =Cottle, Joseph.= 1770-1853. Poet. Best known, however, by his Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey. =Cotton, Charles.= 1630-1687. Poet and translator of Montaigne. =Cotton, Nathaniel.= 1721-1788. Poet. Author Visions in Verse, Miscellanies. =Cotton, Sir Robert.= 1570-1631. Antiquary and historical collector. =Coverdale, Miles.= 1487-1568. Bp. Exeter. Translator, with Tyndale, of the Bible. The first translation of the whole Bible was by C., and appeared in 1635. =Cowley, Abraham.= 1618-1667. Poet and essayist. His popularity, once great, is now slight. His verse is ingenious, but contains little poetic feeling. His most pretentious poem is The Davideis. _See Aikin's edition, 3 vols., 1802._ =Cowper [koo´per or kow´per], Wm.= 1731-1800. Poet. His verse is mainly religious or didactic, but his humorous ballad of John Gilpin is widely famous. He was the author of many beautiful and well-known hymns, of a long poem, The Task, and the exquisite Lines on My Mother's Picture. Style quiet and meditative. _The best edition of C. is that by Southey, with biography, 1838._ _See Cowper, by Goldwin Smith, in Eng. Men of Letters._ =Cox, Sir George W.= 182 Historian. Author Hist. of Greece, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, Tales of Ancient Greece, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Ho._ =Coxe, Wm.= 1744-1828. Historian. Author Hist. House of Austria, Kings of Spain, Memoirs of Duke of Marlborough, etc. A standard writer. _Pub. Apl._