OF THE

POETS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.

Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Variety of Books, and
especially from the MS. Notes of the late ingenious Mr. COXETER and
others, collected for this Design,

By Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
MDCCLIII

VOLUME II.

Contains the

LIVES

OF

Brewer Newcastle, Duchess
May Newcastle, Duke
Taylour Birkenhead
Habington Boyle, E. Orrery
Goldsmith Head
Cleveland Hobbs
Holiday [sic] Cokaine
Nabbes Wharton
Shirley Killegrew, Anne
Howel Lee
Fanshaw Butler
Cowley Waller
Davenant Ogilby
King Rochester
[Massinger] Buckingham
Stapleton Smith
Main Otway
Milton [Oldham]
Philips [Roscommon]

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A TRANSLATION of the Ingenious Abbe DE MABLY'S _Observations on the_
ROMANS. A learned and curious Performance; wherein the Policy of that
People is set in so clear a Light, and the Characters of their great
Men drawn with such a masterly Pen, as cannot but recommend it to all
Lovers of Classical Learning.

In this Work many new Lights are cast upon the Characters and Conduct
of the following celebrated Personages:

Romulus, | Pompey, | Otho,
Tarquin the Elder, | Cato, | Vitellius,
Servius Tullus, | Caesar, | Vespasian,
Brutus, | Cicero, | Titus,
The Gracchi, | Antony, | Domitian,
Marius,