See also:BENLOWES, See also:EDWARD (1603 ?-1676) , See also:English poet, son of See also:Andrew Benlowes of Brent See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Essex, was See also:born about 1603. He matriculated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 162o, and on leaving the university he made a prolonged tour on the See also:continent of See also:Europe. He was a See also:Roman See also:Catholic in See also:middle See also:life, but became a convert to Protestantism in his later years. He dissipated his See also:fortune by openhanded generosity to his See also:friends and relations, and possibly by serving in the See also:Civil See also:War; so that he was in See also:great poverty at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his See also:death, which occurred on the 18th of See also:December 1676. The last eight years of his lifewere passed at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. Many of his writings are in Latin. His most important See also:work is Theophila, or Love's See also:Sacrifice, a Divine Poem (1652). The poem deals with mystical See also:religion, telling how the soul, represented by Theophila, ascends by humility, zeal and contemplation, and triumphs over the sins of the senses. It is written in a curious See also:stanza of three lines of unequal length rhyming together. Until See also:recent times See also:justice has hardly been done to Benlowes' poetical merits and indisputable piety. See also:Samuel See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler who satirized him in his " See also:Character of a Small Poet," found abundant See also:matter for ridicule in his eccentricities; and See also:Pope and See also:Warburton noted him as a See also:patron of See also:bad poets.
His Theophila was reprinted by S. W. See also:Singer; and in See also:Minor Poets of the See also:Caroline See also:Period, vol. i.
End of Article: BENLOWES, EDWARD (1603 ?-1676)
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