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See also:ROSCOMMON, See also:WENTWORTH See also:DILLON, 4TH See also:EARL OF (c. 163o-1685) , See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:Ireland about 163o. He was a See also:nephew 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 Wentworth, earl of See also:Strafford, and was educated partly under a See also:tutor at his See also:uncle's seat in See also:Yorkshire, partly at See also:Caen in See also:Normandy and partly at See also:Rome. After the Restoration he returned to See also:England, and was well received at See also:court. In 1649 he had succeeded to the earldom of Roscommon, which had been created in 1622 for his See also:great-grandfather, 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 Dillon; and he was now put in See also:possession by See also:act of See also:parliament of all the lands possessed by his See also:family before the See also:Civil See also:War. As See also:captain of the See also:Gentleman Pensioners he found abundant opportunity to indulge the love of gambling, which appears to have been his only See also:vice. Disputes with the See also:Lord Privy See also:Seal about his Irish estates necessitated his presence in Ireland, where he gave See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of some business capacity. On his return to See also:London he was made See also:master of the See also:horse to the duchess of See also:York. He was twice married, in 1662 to See also:Lady Frances See also:Boyle, widow of See also:Colonel See also:Francis See also:Courtenay, and in 1674 to See also:Isabella Boynton.
His reputation as a didactic writer and critic rests on his See also:blank See also:verse See also:translation of the Ars Poetica (168o) and his See also:Essay on Translated Verse (1684). The essay contained the first definite enunciation of the principles of " poetic diction," which were to be fully See also:developed in the reign of See also:Queen See also:Anne. Roscommon, who was fastidious in his notions of " dignified See also:writing," was himself a very correct writer, and quite See also:free from the indecencies of his contemporaries. See also:Alexander See also:Pope, who seems to have learnt something from his carefully balanced phrases and the See also:regular See also:cadence of his verse, says that " In all See also:Charles's days, Roscommon only boasts unspotted bays." He saw clearly that a See also:low See also:code of morals was necessarily followed by a corresponding degradation in literature, and he insists that sincerity and sympathy with the subject in See also:hand are essential qualities in the poet. This elevated conception of his See also:art is in itself no small merit. He has, moreover, the distinction of having been the first critic to avow his admiration for See also:Paradise Lost. Roscommon formed a small See also:literary society which he hoped to develop into an See also:academy with authority to formulate rules on See also:language and See also:style, but its See also:influence only extended to a limited circle, and the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme See also:fell through after its See also:promoter's See also:death. He was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey on the 21st of See also:January 1685.
The See also:title passed to his uncle, See also:Carey Dillon (1627-1689). In 1746, on the death of James, the 8th earl, it passed to See also:Robert Dillon (d. 177o), a descendant of the 'first earl. His family became See also:extinct in 1816, and in 1828 See also:Michael James Robert Dillon, another descend-See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant of the 1st earl, established his title to the earldom before the See also:House of Lords. When he died in May 185o it became extinct.
Roscommon's poems were collected in 1701, and are included in See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson's and other collections of the See also:British poets. He also translated into See also:French from the English of Dr W. See also:Sherlock, Traitte touchant 1'obeissance passive (1686).
End of Article: ROSCOMMON, WENTWORTH DILLON, 4TH EARL OF (c. 163o-1685)
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