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See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
MASON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1725—1797) , See also:English poet, son of William Mason, See also:vicar of See also:Holy Trinity, See also:Hull, was See also:born on the 12th of See also:February 1725, was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and took holy orders. In 1744 he wrote See also:Musaeus, a lament for See also:Pope in See also:imitation of Lycidas, and in 1749 through the.
See also:influence of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray he was elected a See also:fellow of See also:Pembroke College. He became a devoted friend and admirer of Gray, who addressed him as " Skroddles," and corrected the worst solecisms in his verses. In 1748 he published See also:Isis, a poem directed against the supposed Jacobitism of the university of 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, which provoked Thomas See also:Warton's See also:Triumph of Isis. Mason conceived the ambition of reconciling See also:modern See also:drama with See also:ancient forms by strict observance of the unities and the restoration of the See also:chorus. These ideas were exemplified in Elfrida (1752) and See also:Caractacus (1759), two frigid performances no doubt intended to be read rather than acted, but produced with some alterations at Covent See also:Garden in 1772 and 1776 respectively. See also:Horace See also:Walpole described Caractacus as " laboured, uninteresting, and no more resembling the See also:manners of Britons than of See also:Japanese "; while Gray declared he had read the See also:manuscript " not with See also:pleasure only, but with emotion." In 1754 Mason was presented to the rectory of See also:Aston, near See also:Rotherham, See also:Yorkshire, and in 1757 through the influence of the See also:duke of See also:Devonshire he became one of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's chaplains. He also received the prebend of Holme in See also:York See also:Minster (1756), was made See also:canon residentiary in 1762, and in 1763 became See also:precentor and See also:prebendary of See also:Driffield. He married in 1764 See also:Mary See also:Sherman, who died three years later. When Gray died in 1771 he made Mason his See also:literary executor. In the preparation of the See also:Life and Letters of Gray, which appeared in 1774, he had much help from Horace Walpole, with whom he corresponded regularly until 1784 when Mason opposed See also:Fox's See also:India See also:Bill, and offended Walpole by thrusting on him See also:political See also:advice unasked. Twelve years of silence followed, but in the See also:year before his See also:death the See also:correspondence was renewed on friendly terms. Mason died at Aston on the 7th of See also:April 1797.
His correspondence with Gray and Walpole shows him to have been a See also:man of cultivated tastes. He was something of an antiquarian, a See also:good musician, and an See also:amateur of See also:painting. He is said to have invented an See also:instrument called the See also:celestina, a modified See also:pianoforte. Gray rewarded his faithful admiration with good-humoured kindness. He warned him against confounding See also:Mona with the Isle of Man, or the Goths with the Celts, corrected his See also:grammar, pointed out his plagiarisms, and laughed gently at his superficial learning. His See also:powers show to better See also:advantage in the unacknowledged satirical poems which he produced under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Malcolm See also:Macgregor. In editing Gray's letters he took considerable liberties with his originals, and did not See also:print all that related to himself.
Mason's other See also:works included Odes (1756); The English Garden, a didactic poem in See also:blank See also:verse, the four books of which appeared in 1772, 1777, 1779 and 1782; An Heroic See also:Epistle to See also:Sir William See also:Chambers (1774); an See also:Ode to Mr Pinchbeck (1776) and an Epistle to Dr Shebbeare (1777)—all these by " Malcolm Macgregor "; See also:Essay, See also:Historical and See also:Critical, of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church See also:Music (1795), and a lyrical drama, See also:Sappho (1797).
His poems were collected in 1764 and 1774, and an edition of his Works appeared in 1811. His poems with a Life are included in See also:Alexander See also:Chalmers's English Poets. His correspondence with Walpole was edited by J. See also:Mitford in 1851; and his correspondence with Gray by the same editor in 1853. See also the See also:standard See also:editions of the letters of Gray and of Walpole. There is a very pleasant picture of Mason's See also:character in See also:Southey's See also:Doctor (ch. cxxvi.).
End of Article: MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
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