The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)Winstanley, William
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The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
Winstanley, William
Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Mr. _William Whicherly_, a Gentleman of the Inner _Temple_, who besides
his other learned Works, hath contributed largely to the Stage, in his
Comedies of _Love in a Wood_, _The Gentleman Dancing-Master_, _The
Country Wife_, &c.
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Sir _ROGER L'ESTRANGE_.
And so we have reckoned up all the most Eminent Poets which have come
to our knowledge, craving pardon for those we have omitted. We shall
conclude all with Sir _Roger L'Strange_, one whose Pen was never idle
in asserting the Royal Cause, as well before the King's Restoration,
against his open Enemies, as since that time against his Feigned
Friends. Those who shall consider the Number and Greatness of his
Books, will admire he should ever write so many, and those who have
Read them, considering the Stile and Method they are writ in, will more
admire he should Write so well. And because some people may imagine his
Works not to be so many as he hath written, we will give you a
Catalogue of as many as we can remember of them.
_Collections In Defence of the King._
_Tolleration Discussed._
_Relapsed Apostate._
_Apology for Protestants._
Richard _against_ Baxter.
_Tyranny and Popery._
_Growth of Knavery._
_Reformed Catholique._
_Free-born Subjects._
_The Case Put_.
_Seasonable Memorials._
_Answer to the Appeal._
_No Papist._
_The Shammer Shamm'd._
_Account Cleared._
_Reformation Reformed._
_Dissenters Sayings in Two Parts._
_Notes on_ Colledge.
_Citizen and Bumkin in Two Parts._
_Further Discovery of the Plot._
_Discovery on Discovery._
_Narrative of the Plot._
Zekiel _and_ Ephraim.
_Appeal to the King and Parliament._
_Papist in Masquerade._
_Answer to the Second Character of a Popish Successor._
These Twenty Six, with divers others, he writ in Quarto; Besides which
he wrote divers others, _viz._
_The History of the Plot, in_ Folio.
Quevedo's _Visions Englished_, Octavo.
Erasmus's _Coloquies Eng._. Oct.
Seneca's _Morals_, Oct.
Cicero's _Offices in English_.
_The Guide to Eternity_, _in_ Twelves.
_Five Love Letters from a Nun to a Cave_, &c.
_The Holy Cheat._
_Caveat to the Cavaliers._
_Plea for the Caveat and the Author._
Besides his indefatigable pains taken in writing the _Observator_, a
Work, which for Vindicating the Royal Interest, and undeceiving the
People, considering the corruption of the Times, of as great use and
behoof as may be, mens minds having been before so poysoned by
Fanatical Principles, that it is almost an _Herculean_ Work to reduce
them again by Reason, or as we may more properly say, to Reason. Of
which useful Work he hath done already Two large Volumes, and a Third
almost compleated, his Pen being never weary in Service of his Country.
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