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See also:HOOLE, See also:JOHN (2727-1803) , See also:English translator and dramatist, son of a watchmaker and machinist, See also:Samuel Hoole, was See also:born at Moorfields, See also:London, in See also:December 1727. He was educated at a private school at See also:Hoddesdon, See also:Hertfordshire, kept by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Bennet, who edited See also:Ascham's English See also:works. At the See also:age of seventeen he became a clerk in the See also:accountants' See also:department of the See also:East See also:India See also:House, and before 1767 became one of the auditors of See also:Indian accounts. His leisure See also:hours he devoted to the study of Latin and especially See also:Italian, and began See also:writing See also:translations of the See also:chief works of the Italian poets. He published translations of the See also:Jerusalem Delivered of See also:Tasso in 1763, the Orlando Furioso of See also:Ariosto in 1773-1783, the Dramas of iMetastasio in 1767, and Rinaldo, an See also:early See also:work of Tasso, in 1792. Among his plays are: See also:Cyrus (1768), See also:Timanthes (1770) and Cleonice, Princess of See also:Bithynia (1775), none of which achieved success. The verses of Hoole were praised by See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, but, though correct, smooth and flowing, they cannot be commended for any other merit. His See also:translation of the Orlando Furioso was superseded by the version (1823—1831) of W. S. See also:Rose. Hoole was also the friend of the Quaker poet John See also:Scott of Amwell (1730-1783), whose See also:life he wrote; it was prefixed to Scott's See also:Critical Essays (1785). In 1773 he was promoted to be chief auditor of Indian accounts, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he resigned in 1785. In 1786 he retired to the parsonage of See also:Abinger, See also:Surrey; and afterwards lived at See also:Tenterden, See also:Kent, dying at See also:Dorking on the 2nd of See also:April 1803.
See Anecdotes of the Life of the See also:late Mr John Hoole, by his surviving See also:brother, Samuel See also:Hook (London, 1803). Some of his plays are re-printed in J. See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell's See also:British See also:Theatre (1797).
End of Article: HOOLE, JOHN (2727-1803)
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