Part 7
=Nugent, Lord.= See Grenville, George.
=Occam, Wm. of.= 1270-1347. Philosopher. Defender of the doctrine of Nominalism and the greatest logician of the Middle Ages.
=Occleve, Thos.= c. 1370-1454. Poet. His verse has little merit.
=O'Hare, Kane.= 1722-1782. Irish dramatist.
=O'Keefe, John.= 1747-1833. Irish dramatist. The best of his numerous plays and operas, some of which are still acted, is Wild Oats.
=Oldham, John.= 1653-1683. Poet. Author of Satires against the Jesuits. Style spirited and forcible. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Oldmixon, John.= 1673-1742. Dramatist and historian. His plays and histories are of slight value, and his chief title to remembrance is Pope's satire upon him in The Dunciad.
=Oldys, Wm.= 1696-1761. Biographer and antiquarian. Best known by his famous little poem, The Fly and the Cup of Ale.
=Oliphant, Carolina, Baroness Nairne.= 1766-1845. Scotch poet. Her songs, such as Land o' the Leal, Caller Herrin', etc., take a high rank. _See Complete Works, with Life by C. Rogers, Edinburgh, 1869._
=Oliphant, Laurence.= 182 Satirist and miscellaneous writer. Author of Piccadilly, a Fragment of Contemporaneous Biography, Tender Recollections of Irene McGillicuddy, Altiora Peto, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har._
=Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret.= 182 Novelist. Author of a long series of novels, all good, and some very fine, and much well written biography. Her style is even, her turns of expression felicitous and her character drawing truthful. The Perpetual Curate, Chronicles of Carlingford, Zaidee, Harry Joscelyn, Son of the Soil, Lady Jane, The Little Pilgrim, and the Literary Hist. of England are some of her best books. Few authors have written so much and so uniformly well. _Pub. Apl. Har. Ho. Lip. Mac. Por._
=O'Meara, Barry Edward.= 1780-1836. Napoleonic writer. Author Letters from St. Helena, Memoirs of Napoleon, Napoleon in Exile, etc. _Pub. Arm. Wid._
=Opie, Mrs. Amelia= [Alderson]. 1769-1853. Novelist and poet. Father and Daughter is her best novel, The Orphan Boy her most familiar poem. Style simple and pathetic. _See Miss Brightwell's Life of, London, 1834, and H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Ca._
=Orme, Robert.= 1728-1801. Historian. Hist. British in India, etc.
=O'Shaughnessy [o'shaw'n[)e]-s[)i], Arthur W. E.= 1844-1881. Author Songs of a Worker, Lays of France, Music and Moonlight, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, 2d edition._
=Ossian.= Mythical Keltic bard. See Macpherson, James.
=Ottley, Wm. Young.= 1771-1836. Art writer. Author The Italian School of Design, Engravers and their Works, etc.
=Otway, Thomas.= 1651-1685. Dramatist. A tragic writer of great pathos. His greatest works, Venice Preserved and The Orphan are still occasionally acted. _See Works with Life, by Thornton, 1813._
=Ouida.= See De la Rame, Louisa.
=Ousely [ooz'l[)i]], Sir Wm.= 1771-1842. Orientalist. Author Oriental Collections, Travels in Persia, etc.
=Overbury, Sir Thomas.= 1581-1613. Poet and philosopher. Characters, his chief work, contains an exquisite and oft quoted description of A Fair and Happy Milkmaid.
=Owen, John.= 1616-1683. Theologian. Style heavy and labored. _See edition of 1826 with Life._ _Pub. P. B._
=Owen, Richard.= 180 Scientific writer of note. Author Lect. on Comparative Anatomy, etc.
=Owen, Robert.= 1771-1858. Writer on social reforms. _See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._
=Owenson, Sydney.= See Morgan, Lady.
=Oxenden, Ashton.= 180 Bp. Montreal. Religious writer. Author Pathway of Safety, Our Church and her Services, Thoughts for Lent, etc. _Pub. Dut. Ran. Wh._
=Oxenford, John.= 1812-1877. Dramatist and critic. Translator of Goethe's Autobiography.
=Paley, Frederic Apthorp.= 181 Classical scholar. Grandson to W. P. Editor and translator of numerous classical works.
=Paley, Wm.= 1743-1805. Moral philosopher. Author Natural Theology, Elements of Moral and Political Philosophy, etc. _See Complete Works, 4 vols., London, 1838, biography by Meadley, 1839._ _Pub. Ca. Nel. Har._
=Palgrave [pawl'gr[=a]v], Sir Francis.= 1788-1861. Historian. Author Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Rise and Progress of the Eng. Commonwealth, Anglo-Saxon Period, Hist. of Normandy and of England, etc. _Pub. Mac._
=Palgrave, Francis Turner.= 182 Poet and critic. Son to F. P. Author Essays on Art, Hymns, Lyrical Poems, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Mac. Por. Ran. Rou._
=Palgrave, Wm. Gifford.= 182 Traveller. Son to F. P. Author Essays on the Eastern Question, Dutch Guiana, Herman Agha, etc. _Pub. Ho. Mac._
=Palmer, Sir Roundell= [Baron Selborne]. 181 Author of the Book of Praise. _Pub. Mac._
=Pardoe [par'd[=o]], Julia.= 1806-1862. Novelist and historical writer. Author Court and Reign of Francis I., etc. _Pub. Har. Pet._
=Paris, Matthew.= ---- 1259. Historical writer. _See Bohn's Antiquarian Library._
=Park, Mungo.= 1771-1805. Scotch explorer and writer of travels. _Pub. Har._
=Parker, John Henry.= 180 Writer on Architecture. Author Glossary of Arch., Introduction to the Study of Gothic Arch., Domestic Arch. of the Middle Ages, etc., _Pub. Lit._
=Parnell [par'nell], Thomas.= 1669-1718. Poet. Author of The Hermit, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Hou._
=Parr, Harriet= ["Holme Lee"]. 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Sylvan Holt's Daughter, Kathie Brande, For Richer for Poorer, etc. _Pub. Har. Por._
=Parr, Mrs. Louisa.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Dorothy Fox, Adam and Eve, etc. _Pub. Ho. Lip._
=Parr, Samuel.= 1747-1825. Classical scholar and critic. _See Field's Memoirs of, 1828._
=Pater, Walter H.= 183 Author Studies on the Hist. of the Renaissance. _Pub. Mac._
=Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Dighton.= 182 Poet. Author Angel in the House, Faithful Forever, and other vols. of rather commonplace verse. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Dut. Mac._
=Pattison, Mark.= 181 Author Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, a noted Biography of Isaac Casaubon, Milton in Eng. Men. of Letters, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Payn, James.= 183 Novelist. A writer of excellent stories; Lost Sir Massingberd, and By Proxy, being among the best. _Pub. Apl. Har. Pet._
=Peacock, Thos. Love.= 1785-1866. Novelist and poet. Maid Marian, Headlong Hall, etc., are lively, witty novels. _See Complete Works edited by Cole, 1875._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._
=Pearson, Charles Henry.= 183 Historian. Author Hist. of England in the Early and Middle Ages. _Pub. Put._
=Pearson, John.= 1613-1686. Bp. Chester. Theologian. His Exposition of the Creed is still a standard theological work. _Pub. Apl. Mac._
=Pecock, Reginald.= 1390-1460. Bp. Chichester. Theologian. Author of The Repressor, etc. _See Morley's Eng. Writers, vol. 2._
=Peele, George.= 1552-1598. Dramatist and poet. Author Arraignment of Paris, Absalom, Edward I., etc. In places Peele's verse is very musical. _See Lamb's Dramatic Poets; also Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1, and Ulrici's Dramatic Art._
=Penn, Wm.= 1644-1718. No Cross No Crown, his most noted work, sets forth the doctrines of the Quakers. _See Lives, by H. Dixon, Janney, and Wirt._
=Pennant, Thomas.= 1726-1798. Antiquarian and writer on natural history.
=Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley [ch[)u]m'l[)i]].= 183 Poet. Author of Puck on Pegasus, Pegasus Re-saddled, etc., and several works on Angling. _Pub. Rou._
=Pepys [peeps or p[)e]ps], Samuel.= 1633-1703. Author of a famous Diary presenting an extremely lifelike picture of the time of Charles II. _See Samuel Pepys and the World he Lived In, by Henry B. Wheatly._ _See Braybrooke edition_, _pub. Apl._; _Bright edition, London_, _pub. Bi._
=Percy, Thos.= 1728-1811. Bp. Dromore. Poet and editor of the famous Reliques of Ancient Eng. Poetry, a work of great influence upon subsequent Eng. verse. _See Hales's and Furnivall's edition, 1868._ _Pub. Por. Rou._
=Phillimore, John George.= 1809-1865. Jurist. Author Hist. Law of Evidence, Principles and Maxims of Jurisprudence. _Pub. Mac._
=Phillimore, Robert Joseph.= 181 Jurist. Bro. to J. G. P. Author Civil and Canon Law, Eccl. Law Church of England, etc. _Pub. Jo._
=Philips, Ambrose.= 1675-1749. Dramatist. A writer of trifling merit, who is chiefly remembered on account of Pope's vindictive satire upon him.
=Philips, John.= 1676-1708. Poet. Author of the mock-heroic poem The Splendid Shilling.
=Philips, Mrs. Katharine.= 1631-1664. Poet. Known as "The Matchless Orinda."
=Phillips, Halliwell.= See Halliwell-Phillips.
=Pickering, Ellen.= ---- 1843. Novelist. Author Who Shall be Heir, Secret Foe, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Pindar, Peter.= See Wolcott, John.
=Pinkerton, John.= 1758-1826. Scotch historian and antiquary. His Hist. of Scotland and other works are fiercely controversial in tone.
=Piozzi [p[=e]-[)o]t'see], Mrs. Hester [Lynch]. Mrs. Thrale.= 1740-1821. Author Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, etc., and the well-known poem The Three Warnings. _See Autobiography, Letters, etc., 1861._
=Pitt, Wm., Lord Chatham.= 1708-1778. Statesman. His numerous Speeches rank among the finest of their class.
=Planche [plon-sh[=a]'], James Robinson.= 1796-1870. Dramatist. A prolific writer of dramas, fairy extravaganzas and farces; Prince Charming, Yellow Dwarf, etc. _See Bric-a-brac Series, 1st vol., and The Biograph, March, 1880._
=Plumptre, Edward Hayes.= 182 Poet and translator. Author Lazarus and other Poems, etc., Byways of Scripture, etc., and translation of Sophocles and AEschylus. His verse is didactic in character. _Pub. Dut. Mac. Rou._
=Pole, Reginald, Cardinal.= 1500-1558. Theological writer.
=Pollock, Frederick.= 184 Jurist. Author Principles of Contract, Digest of Law of Partnership, Spinoza: his Life and Philosophy, and The Land Laws in Macmillan's Eng. Citizen Series. _Pub. Mac. Th._
=Pollock, Robert.= 1799-1827. Scotch poet. Author of The Course of Time, a heavy, didactic, blank-verse poem, once very popular. _Pub. Apl. Ca. Clx._
=Pomfret, John.= 1667-1703. Poet. Author of The Choice. _See Life, by Dr. Johnson._
=Poole, John.= 1786-1872. Dramatist and humorist. Author of the comedy, Paul Pry, Little Pedlington, a vol. of witty sketches, The Comic Sketch-Book, etc.
=Poole, Matthew.= 1624-1679. Biblical Commentator. _Pub. Ca._
=Pope, Alexander.= 1688-1744. A correct, polished poet whose verse lacks sentiment and feeling. The heroic couplet is his usual measure. His translation of Homer, though a fine effort, lacks the freshness and spontaneity of its original. His chief poems are Essay on Man, Moral Essays, The Dunciad, a talented but terrible satire, and The Rape of the Lock, a brilliant, glittering piece of literary trifling. _See editions of, by A. W. Ward, Cowden-Clarke, and Rossetti._ _See Lowell's My Study Windows; also Leslie Stephen's Pope in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Apl. Le. Mac. Rou._
=Porson, Richard.= 1759-1808. Classical scholar and writer of note. _See Watson's Life of, 1861._
=Porter, Anna Maria.= 1781-1832. Novelist. Don Sebastian is perhaps the best of her numerous novels.
=Porter, Jane.= 1776-1850. Novelist. Sister to A. M. P. The famous romances Thaddeus of Warsaw and Scottish Chiefs are her chief works. _Pub. Apl. Le. Lip. Por._
=Powell, Baden.= 1796-1860. Philosopher. Author Hist. Nat. Philosophy, Spirit of Inductive Philosophy, Study and Evidence of Christianity, etc.
=Poynter, E. Frances.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author My Little Lady, Ersilia, Among the Hills, etc. _Pub. Ho._
=Praed [pr[=a]d], Winthrop Mackworth.= 1802-1839. Poet. A writer of pleasing verse, of which the Belle of the Ball is a good example. _See Complete Works, edited by Sir Geo. Young._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ _Pub. Arm._
=Price, Bonamy.= 180 Political economist. Author Practical Political Economy, Currency and Banking, Principles of Currency, etc. _Pub. Apl._
=Prideaux [pr[)i]d'o, or pr[)i]d-[)u]x], Humphrey.= 1648-1724. Theologian. Noted for his Connection of the Old and New Testaments. _Pub. Har. Mac._
=Priestley, Joseph.= 1733-1804. Theologian and scientist. Author of over 300 books on chemistry, theology, metaphysics, etc. _See Works of, 1824, 26 vols._ _See Life of, by Corry._
=Pringle, Thomas.= 1789-1834. Scotch poet. His best poem is the spirited Afar in the Desert. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._
=Prior, Matthew.= 1664-1721. Poet. A sprightly writer whose light and airy style is seen to best advantage in his comic narrative poems. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Hou._
=Procter, Adelaide Anne.= 1825-1864. Poet. Dau. to B. W. P. Author Legends and Lyrics. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Hou._
=Procter, Bryan Waller, "Barry Cornwall."= 1790-1874. Poet. A writer of somewhat over-praised lyric verse. The tragedy of Mirandola is his finest dramatic effort. _See Autobiography. Compare Stedman's Victorian Poets and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._
=Proctor Richard Anthony.= 183 Astronomer. Author Other Worlds than Ours, Our Place Among the Infinities, etc. _Pub. Apl. Arm. Lip. Put._
=Prout, Father.= See Mahoney, Francis.
=Prynne, Wm.= 1600-1669. Political and antiquarian writer.
=Pugin [p[=u]-jin], Augustus.= 1792-1832. Architectural writer of note.
=Pugin, Augustin Welby Northmore.= 1812-1852. Architect. Son to A. P. Author Examples of Gothic Architecture, Glossary of Eccl. Ornament, etc. _See Ferrey's Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin and Augustus Pugin, 1861._
=Purchas, Samuel.= 1577-1628. Chronicler and compiler of travels.
=Pusey [p[=u]'z[)i]], Edward Bouverie.= 1800-1882. Theologian. Author Hist. Councils of the Church, Doctrine of the Real Presence, etc, and many of the Tracts for the Times. The earlier Ritualists were named Puseyites. His influence greatly deepened the religious feeling of the Anglican Church. _See Life, by Liddon._ _Pub. Apl._
=Pusey, Philip Edward.= 18-- 1880. Theological writer. Son to E. B. P.
=Puttenham, George.= 1530-c. 1600. Author of The Art of Eng. Poesie.
=Pye, Henry James.= 1745-1813. Poet. Author of very indifferent verse.
=Quarles, Francis.= 1592-1644. Poet. An ingenious versifier, very popular in his own day, and now chiefly known by his Divine Emblems and a vol. of prose maxims entitled Enchiridion.
=Quarles, John.= 1624-1665. Poet. Son to F. Q. Author Divine Meditations, etc. His verse is marked by the same fantastic, labored conceits as that of his father.
=Quincey, Thos. de.= See De Quincey.
=Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann [Ward].= 1764-1823. Novelist. A writer of powerful sensational romances, the best known of which are The Mysteries of Udolpho and Romance of the Forest. _See Memoir of, by Talfourd, and Memoir of, by Miss Rossetti._ _Pub. Clx. Rou._
=Raleigh [raw'l[)i]], Sir Walter.= 1532-1618. His chief work, The Hist. of the World, has great literary merit. _See Lives, by Whitehead, Oldys, Birch, Cayley, Thomson, Tytler, Napier, St. John, and Edwards. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._
=Ramsay [r[)a]m'z[)i]], Allan.= 1685-1758. Scotch poet. Author of the pastoral poem The Gentle Shepherd. _See edition 1800, with Life; also Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._
=Ramsay, Edward Bannerman.= 1793-1872. Author of the famous Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, Sermons, Pulpit Table-Talk, etc. _See 23d edition of the Reminiscences, 1874, and Memorials and Recollections, by C. Rogers._
=Randolph, Thos.= 1605-1634. Poet and dramatist. His works are inferior in quality. The Jealous Lover is one of his plays. _See Works of, edited by Carew Hazlitt, 1875, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Rankine, Wm. John Macquorn.= 1820-1872. Writer on mechanics. Author Applied Mechanics, The Steam Engine, Songs and Fables, etc. _See Memoir, by P. G. Tait._ _Pub. Apl. Mac._
=Rawlinson, George Henry.= 181 Historian. Author The Five Great Monarchies of the Eastern World, Manual of Ancient Hist., The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, etc. _Pub. Apl. Do. Est. Har. Mac._
=Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke.= 181 Archaeological writer of note. Bro. to G. H. R.
=Ray, John.= 1628-1705. Naturalist. Author of the Historia Plantarum, etc. _See Life, by Wm. Derham, 1760._
=Reach, Angus Bethune.= 1821-1856. Novelist and miscellaneous writer. Author of Leonard Lindsay, The Natural Hist. of Bores and Humbugs, The Comic Bradshaw, etc. _See Chas. Mackay's Recollections._ _Pub. Rou._
=Reade, Charles.= 181 Novelist. A writer of strong genius, whose style is piquant and aggressive. Put Yourself in his Place, Griffith Gaunt, The Cloister and the Hearth, and Christie Johnstone are among his best novels. _See Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1864._ _Pub. Har._
=Redding, Cyrus.= 1785-1870. Miscellaneous writer. Author of A Wife and Not a Wife, Remarkable Misers, Past Celebrities, etc.
=Reeve, Clara.= 1725-1803. Novelist. Author Old English Baron, etc.
=Reeve, Lovell.= 1814-1865. Conchologist. Author Conchologia Iconica, Elements of Conchology, Conchologia Systematica, etc. _Pub. Put._
=Reeves, Mrs. Helen Buckingham [Mathers].= 185 Novelist. Author of Cherry Ripe, Comin' thro' the Rye, My Lady Green Sleeves, As He Comes Up the Stair, Land o' the Leal, Sam's Sweetheart, etc. _Pub. Apl._
=Reid, Mayne.= 1818-1883. Author of tales of adventure for young readers. _Pub. Rou. Sh._
=Reid, Thomas.= 1710-1796. Scotch metaphysician. Author Inquiry into the Human Mind, Essays on the Intellectual Powers, etc. _See Hamilton's edition of Reid, 1846._
=Reynolds, Frederick.= 1765-1841. Dramatist. Author of nearly 100 plays, of which The Dramatist and Folly as it Flies are the best.
=Reynolds, George W. M.= ---- 1879. Novelist. Author Mysteries of London, Reformed Highwayman, etc. Style sensational, and influence pernicious. _Pub. Di. Pet._
=Reynolds, Sir Joshua.= 1723-1792. Artist. Author Discourse on Painting. _See Malone's edition of, 1797._ _See Lives by Malone, Northcote, Farrington, Cotton, and Leslie, Mrs. Thackeray-Ritchie's Miss Angel, and Reynolds as a Portrait Painter, by J. E. Collins._
=Ricardo [re-kar'do], David.= 1792-1823. Political economist. Author High Price of Bullion, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, etc. _See McCulloch's edition, 1846._
=Rice, James.= 1843-1882. Novelist. Colleague of Walter Besant, and author with him of Sweet Nelly My Heart's Delight, Golden Butterfly, and other novels. See Besant, Walter. _Pub. Har._
=Richards, Alfred Bate.= 1820-1876. Poet and dramatist. Author of Cromwell, Vandyck, and other dramas, Medea, and other vols. of poems, and the novel So Very Human.
=Richardson, Chas.= 1775-1865. Lexicographer. Author of an Eng. Dict. and The Study of Language.
=Richardson, Samuel.= 1689-1761. Novelist. Author Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison. The slow movement of these stories does not appeal readily to modern taste, but they display a wonderful knowledge of the workings of the human heart. Clarissa, the best, is a fine piece of realism. _See Taine's Eng. Lit., Masson's Novelists and their Styles, and Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library._ _Pub. Ho. Rou._
=Richmond, Leigh.= 1772-1827. Moralist. Author The Dairyman's Daughter, etc. _Pub. Ca. Phi. Rou._
=Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte Eliza Lawson.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author George Geith, A Life's Assize, The Senior Partner, etc. _Pub. Clx. Est. Har. Pet._
=Riddell, Henry Scott.= 1798-1870. Scotch poet. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._
=Riddell, Mrs. J. H.= See Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte.
=Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella.= See Thackeray-Ritchie.
=Ritchie, Leitch.= 1801-1865. Miscellaneous writer. Author of Headpieces and Tailpieces, Wearyfoot Common, Romance of French History, etc.
=Ritson, Joseph.= 1752-1803. Antiquary and critic.
=Roberts, Margaret.= 183 Novelist. Author Mademoiselle Mori, Denise, The Atelier du Lys, In the Olden Time, On the Edge of the Storm, Ose, Tempest tossed, Madame Fontenoy, Summerleigh Manor, etc. _Pub. Ho._
=Robertson, Frederick Wm.= 1816-1853. Religious writer. Author 4 vols. of sermons, which rank among the finest religious utterances of the age. _See Life, by Stopford Brooke, and Blackwood's Mag., Aug. 1862._ _Pub. Dut. Har._
=Robertson, James Burton.= 180 Historical writer. Author Lect. on Various Subjects of Ancient and Modern Hist., etc.
=Robertson, James Craigie.= 1813-1882. Ecclesiastical historian. Author Hist. of the Christian Church, Biography of Thomas a Becket, etc.
=Robertson, Thos. Wm.= 1829-1871. Dramatist. Author David Garrick, Ours, Caste, M. P., and other lively and popular plays.
=Robertson, Wm.= 1721-1793. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Scotland, Hist. Reign of Charles V., Hist. Discovery of America, etc. His style is picturesque, but his statements are sometimes inaccurate. _See Prescott's Robertson's Charles V. Pub. Har._
=Robinson, A. Mary F.= 185- ----. Poet and litterateur. Author of A Handful of Honeysuckle, The Crowned Hippolytus, Rural England, and Emily Bronte, in Famous Women Series, etc. _Pub. Rob._
=Robinson, Frederick Wm.= 183 Novelist. Author of A Bridge of Glass, As Long as she Lived, Poor Zeph, Her Face was her Fortune, Little Kate Kirby, Second-Cousin Sarah, Stern Necessity, True to Herself, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Robinson, Henry Crabb.= 1775-1867. He left an entertaining Diary, published in 1869. _Pub. Hou. Mac._
=Robinson, Mrs. Mary.= 1758-1800. Poet and actress. Known to her contemporaries as "Perdita, the Fair."
=Rochester, Earl of.= See Wilmot, John.
=Rogers, Charles.= 182 Scotch antiquarian writer. Author of A Century of Scottish Life, Boswelliana, Scotland: Social and Domestic, etc.
=Rogers, Henry.= 1810-1877. Critic. Author Eclipse of Faith, Reason and Faith, etc. _Pub. Rou. Scr._
=Rogers, Samuel.= 1763-1855. Poet. Author Pleasures of Memory, a fine though labored production, Italy, etc. _See Hazlitt's Eng. Poets._ _Pub. Lip._
=Romilly, Sir Samuel.= 1757-1818. Jurist. Author of Speeches, etc. _See Autobiography, 1840._
=Roscoe, Henry.= 1800-1836. Son to W. R. Author Lives of Eminent Lawyers, etc. _Pub. Jo._
=Roscoe, Thos.= 1791-1871. Son to W. R. Translator of important Italian works.
=Roscoe, Wm.= 1753-1831. Historian. Author Lives of Lorenzo de Medici and Leo X., etc. A careful, painstaking writer, whose works, written in an easy, flowing style, are standard of their kind. _See Life of, by Henry Roscoe._
=Roscommon, Earl of.= See Dillon, Wentworth.
=Rose, George.= "Arthur Sketchley." 1830-1882. Litterateur. Best known by his humorous Mrs. Brown sketches. _Pub. Rou._
=Rose, Henry John.= 1801-1873.} Authors of a General} Biographical =Rose, Hugh James.= 1795-1838.} Dict., etc. Bro. to preceding.}
=Rose, Wm.= 1762-1790. Scotch pastoral poet. His Praise of the Highland Maid is one of his best poems. _See Grant Wilson's Poetry of Scotland._
=Rose, Wm. Stewart.= 1775-1843. Poet. Translator of Ariosto.
=Ross, Alexander.= 1699-1784. Scotch poet. Best known by his ballad Woo'd and Married and a'. _See Irving's Scottish Writers._
=Ross-Church, Mrs. Florence [Marryatt].= 183 Novelist. Author Her Lord and Master, The Prey of the Gods, No Intentions, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Rossetti [r[)o]s-s[)e]t'tee], Christina Georgina.= 183 Poet. Author of The Pageant, Sonnet of Sonnets, Goblin Market, etc. Style serious and earnest. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Mac. Rob._
=Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.= 1828-1882. Poet and artist. Bro. to C. G. R. A writer of the so-called Pre-Raphaelite school, whose verse is passionate and musical. Sister Helen, The Blessed Damozel, and Rose Mary are his most striking poems. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets, Swinburne's Essays and Studies, Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, 2d edition, Essays Modern, by F. W. H. Myers, Wm. Sharp's_ _Record and Study of Rossetti, Cornhill Mag. Feb. 1883, Contemporary Rev. Feb. 1883, Harper's Mag. Nov. 1882, and English Illus. Mag. Oct. 1883._ _Pub. Rob._
=Rossetti, Maria Francesca.= 1827-1875. Commentator on Dante. Sister to two preceding. Author The Shadow of Dante, etc. _Pub. Rob._
=Rossetti, Wm. Michael.= 182 Biographer and critic. Author Fine Art, etc. Bro. to three preceding. _Pub. Mac._
=Rowe [r[=o]], Nicholas.= 1673-1718. Dramatist and Shakespearean editor. Author Jane Shore, Fair Penitent, etc. His dramas are melancholy, but never licentious, like those of his contemporaries.
=Rowley, Wm.= fl. c. 1625. Dramatist. Colleague of Dekker and Ford in the Witch of Edmonton, and of Massinger and Middleton in the Old Law.
=Roy, William.= fl. c. 1525. Poet. Author of a singular satire upon Wolsey and the clergy, entitled Read me and be not Wroth, for I say Nothing but Troth.
=Roydon, Matthew.= fl. c. 1585. Poet. Author of the beautiful Lament for Astrophel, an elegy upon Sir Philip Sidney.
=Ruskin, John.= 181 Art critic. Author Modern Painters, Stones of Venice, Seven Lamps of Architecture, Sesame and Lilies, Fors Clavigera, etc. Style original, masterly, and of rare beauty. Its chief defect is a vein of petulance and intolerance, which is strongest in his latest books. _Pub. Wil._
=Russell, John, Earl.= 1792-1878. Statesman. Author Causes of the French Revolution, Life and Times of Chas. James Fox, Establishment of the Turks in Europe, etc. _Pub. Rob._
=Russell, John Scott.= 180 Engineer. Author Modern System of Naval Architecture, a work of great practical value. _Pub. Apl._
=Russell, Michael.= 1781-1848. Bp. Glasgow. Scotch historian.
=Russell, Lady Rachel.= 1636-1723. Her Letters are of much literary and historical value. _See Earl Russell's edition, 1854._
=Russell, Wm.= 1741-1793. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Modern Europe, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Russell, Wm. Clark.= 184 Marine novelist. Author Wreck of the Grosvenor, A Sailor's Sweetheart, An Ocean Free Lance, Jack's Courtship, Little Loo, etc. Style original and spirited. _Pub. Har._
=Russell, Wm. Howard.= 182 Journalist. Author Hist. of the Crimean War, Diary North and South, Diary in India, Hesperothen, etc. _Pub. Har. Rou._
=Ryle, John Charles.= 181 Bp. Liverpool. A popular religious writer. Author Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, etc. _Pub. Ca. Phi. Ran._
=Rymer, Thos.= 1638-1714. Antiquary and critic. Author of Edgar, a play, The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered, etc., and compiler of Rymer's F[oe]dera, a collection of treatises, etc.
=Sackville, Chas., Earl of Dorset.= 1637-1705. Poet Author of the bright, lively song To all you Ladies now on Land. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Sackville, Thos., Earl of Dorset and Lord Buckhurst.= 1536-1608. Poet. Author of the Induction and one tale of the Mirror for Magistrates, and, with Thos. Norton, of the tragedy of Gorboduc. _See edition 1820._
=Sadler, Michael Thos.= 1780-1830. Author of The Law of Population, etc.
=Sainsbury, Wm. Noel.= 182 Editor of Colonial Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1574-1668, etc.
=St. John, Bayle.= 1822-1859. Miscellaneous writer. Son to J. A. St. John. Author Village Life in Egypt, Memoirs of St. Simon, The Turks in Europe, etc.
=St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.= 1678-1751. Political essayist. His Letter to Sir Wm. Windham [a vol. of 300 pages] is his chief work.