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BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 662 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BROWN, See also:THOMAS (1663-1704) , See also:English satirist, of " facetious memory " as See also:Addison designates him, was the son of a See also:farmer at See also:Shifnal, in See also:Shropshire, and was See also:born in 1663. He was entered in 1678 at;See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he is said to have escaped See also:expulsion by the famous lines beginning, " I do not love thee, Dr See also:Fell." He was for three years schoolmaster at See also:Kingston-on-See also:Thames, and afterwards settled in See also:London. Under the See also:pseudonym of Dudly Tomkinson he wrote a See also:satire on See also:Dryden, The Reasons of Mr Bays changing his See also:Religion: considered in a See also:Dialogue between Crites, See also:Eugenius and Mr Bays, with two other parts having See also:separate titles (1688-169o, republished with additions in 1691). He was the author of a See also:great variety of poems, letters, dialogues and lampoons, full of See also:humour and erudition, but coarse and scurrilous. His writings have a certain value for the knowledge they display of See also:low See also:life in London. He died on the 16th of See also:June 1704, and was buried in the See also:cloister of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. His collected See also:works were published in 1707-1708. The second See also:volume contains a collection of Letters from the Dead to the Living, some of which are translated from the See also:French. His Comical See also:Romance done into English (1772, the See also:Roman Comique of See also:Scarron) was reprinted in 1892.

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