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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Broome: With the Life of the Author William Broome, the author of the following Poems, was born in Cheshire, but of the time and place of his birth, or the incidents of the early part of his life, no authentic intelligence can be obtained, - further than that he was educated upon the foundation at Eaton, and sent by his friends from thence to St. John's College, Oxford; where, by their assistance, he was maintained till he entered into orders. He had acquired at College the reputation of being an excellent Greek scholar, and discovered such a propensity for versifying, that his intimate acquaintance familiarly called him the Poet; but he evinced ver...
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances B...