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QUARLES . See also: FRANCIS (1592-1644), See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Romford, See also:Essex, and baptized there on the 8th of May 1592. His See also:father, 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 Quarles, held several places under See also:Elizabeth, and traced his ancestry to a See also:family settled in See also:England before the See also:Conquest. He was entered at See also:Christ's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 16o8, and subsequently at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn. He was made See also:cup-See also:bearer to the Princess Elizabeth, Electress See also:Palatine, in 1613, remaining abroad for some years; and before 1629 he was appointed secretary to Ussher, the See also:primate of See also:Ireland. About 1633 he returned to England, and spent the next two years in the preparation of his Emblems. In 1639 he was made See also:city chronologer, a See also:post in which See also:Ben See also:Jonson and 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:Middleton had preceded him. At the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he took the Royalist See also:side, See also:drawing up three See also:pamphlets in 1644 in support 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 cause. It is said that his See also:house was searched and his papers destroyed by the Parliamentarians in consequence of these publications. He died on the 8th of See also:September in that See also:year.
Quarles married in 1618 See also:Ursula Woodgate, by whom he had eighteen See also:children. His son, See also:John Quarles (1624-1665), was exiled to See also:Flanders for his Royalist sympathies and was the author of Fans Lachrymarum (1648) and other poems.
The See also: work by which Quarles is best known, the Emblems, was originally published in 1635, with See also:grotesque illustrations engraved by 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:Marshall and others. The See also:forty-five prints in the last three books are borrowed from the Pia Desideria (See also:Antwerp, 1624) of Herman See also:Hugo. Each " See also:emblem " consists of a See also:paraphrase from a passage of Scripture, expressed in ornate and metaphorical See also:language, followed by passages from the See also:Christian Fathers, and concluding with an See also:epigram of four lines. The Emblems was immensely popular with the vulgar, but the critics of the 17th and 18th centuries had no See also:mercy on Quarles. See also:Sir John Suckling in his Sessions of the Poets disrespectfully alluded to him as he " that makes See also:God speak so big in's See also:poetry." See also:Pope in the Dunciad spoke of the Emblems,
" Where the pictures for the See also:page atone
And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own."
The See also:works of Quarles include: A Feast for Wormes. Set forth in a
Poeme of the See also:History of See also:Jonah (162o), which contains other scriptural
paraphrases, besides the one that furnishes the See also:title; Hadassa;
or the History of Queene Ester (1621); See also:Job Militant, with Meditations
Divine and Morall (1624); Sions Elegies, wept by Jeremie the See also:Prophet
(1624); Sions Sonets sung by See also:Solomon the King (1624), a paraphrase
of the See also:Canticles; The Historie of See also:Samson (1631); See also:Alphabet of Elegies
upon . . . Dr See also:Aylmer (1625); Argalus and Parthenia (1629), the
subject of which is borrowed from Sir See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Sidney's See also:Arcadia;
four books of Divine Fancies digested into Epigrams, Meditations
and Observations (1632); a reissue of his scriptural paraphrases
and the Alphabet of Elegies as Divine Poems (1633); Hieroglyphikes
of the See also:Life of See also:Man (1638) ; Enchyridion, containing Institutions
Divine and Moral (1640-41), a collection of four " centuries " of See also:miscellaneous aphorisms; Observations concerning Princes and States upon See also:Peace and Warre (1642), and Boanerges and See also:Barnabas—See also:Wine and Oyle for . . . afflicted Souks (1644-46), both of which are collections of miscellaneous reflections; three violent Royalist tracts
(1644), The Loyall Convert, The Whipper Whipt, and The New Distemper, reissued in one See also:volume in 1645 with the title of The Profest Royalist; his quarrell with the Times, and some elegies. Solomon's Recantation ... (1645) contains a memoir by his widow. Other See also:posthumous works are The Shepheards' Oracles (1646), a second See also:part of Boanerges and Barnabas (1646), a See also:broadside entitled A Direfull See also:Anathema against Peace-haters (1647), and an interlude, The Virgin Widow (1649).
An edition of the Emblems (See also: Edinburgh, 1857) was embellished with new illustrations by C. H. See also:Bennett and W. A. See also:Rogers These are reproduced in the See also:complete edition (1874) of Quarles included in the " See also:Chertsey Worthies Library " by Dr A. B See also:Grosart, who provides an See also:introductory memoir and an appreciation which greatly overestimates Quarles's value as a poet.
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