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See also:OLDHAM, See also:JOHN (1653–1683) , See also:English satirist, son of a Presbyterian See also:minister, was See also:born at See also:Shipton Moyne, near Tetbury, See also:Gloucestershire, on the 9th of See also:August 1653. He graduated from St See also:Edmund 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:- 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, in 1674, and was for three years an See also:- USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
- USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)
usher in a school at See also:Croydon. Some of his verses attracted the See also:attention of the See also:town, and the See also:earl of See also:Rochester, with See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Sedley and other wits, came down to see him. The visit did not affect his career apparently, for he stayed at Croy-See also:don until 1681, when he became See also:tutor to the grandsons of Sir See also:Edward Thurland, near See also:Reigate. Meanwhile he had tried, he says, to conquer his inclination for the unprofitable See also:trade of See also:poetry, but in the panic caused by the revelations of See also:Titus See also:Oates, he found an opportunity for the exercise of his See also:gift for rough See also:satire. See also:Garnet's See also:Ghost was published as a See also:broadside in 1679, but the other Satires on the See also:Jesuits, although written at the same 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, were not printed until 1681. The success of these dramatic and unsparing invectives apparently gave Oldham See also:hope that he might become See also:independent of teaching. But his undoubted services to the See also:Country Party brought no See also:reward from its leaders. He became tutor to the son of Sir 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 See also:Hickes, and was eventually glad to accept the patronage of William See also:Pierrepont, earl of See also:Kingston, whose kindly offer of a chaplaincy he had refused earlier. He died at Holme-Pierrepoint, near See also:Nottingham, on the 9th of See also:December 1683, of smallpox.
Oldham took See also:Juvenal for his See also:model, and in breadth of treatment and See also:power of invective surpassed his English predecessors. He was See also:original in the dramatic setting provided for his satires. 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 Garnet, who suffered for supposed implication in the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot, See also:rose from the dead to encourage the Jesuits in the first satire, and in the third See also:Ignatius See also:Loyola is represented as dictating his wishes to his disciples from his See also:death-See also:bed. Old-See also:ham wrote other satires, notably one " addressed to a friend about to leave the university," which contains a well-known description of the See also:state of See also:slavery of the private See also:chaplain, and another " dissuading from poetry," describing the ingratitude shown to Edmund See also:Spenser, whose ghost is the See also:speaker, to 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 and to See also:Abraham See also:Cowley. Oldham's See also:verse is rugged, and his rhymes often defective, but he met with a generous appreciation from See also:Dryden, whose own satiric See also:bent was perhaps influenced by his efforts. He says (" To the Memory of Mr Oldham," See also:Works, ed. See also:Scott, vol. xi. p. 99)
" For sure our souls were near allied, and thine
See also:Cast in the same poetic See also:mould with mine."
The real wit and rigour of Oldham's satirical poetry are undeniable, while its faults—its frenzied extravagance and lack of metrical See also:polish—might, as Dryden suggests, have been cured with time, for Oldham was only See also:thirty when he died.
The best edition of his works is The Compositions in Prase and Verse of Mr John Oldham . . . (1770), with memoir and explanatory notes by Edward See also:Thompson.
End of Article: OLDHAM, JOHN (1653–1683)
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