The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II by Theophilus Cibber
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Sir William Russel of Strensham in Worcestershire, knight and baronet.
Our author's works, besides the version of the Psalms already mentioned, are as follows; A Deep Groan fetched at the Funeral of the incomparable and glorious Monarch King Charles I. printed 1649. Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, Sonnets, &c. Lond. 1657. Several Letters, among which are extant, one or more to the famous archbishop Usher, Primate of Ireland, and another to Isaac Walton, concerning the three imperfect books of Richard Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, dated the 13th of November 1664, printed at London 1665. He has composed several Anthems, one of which is for the time of Lent. Several Latin and Greek Poems, scattered in several Books. He has likewise published several Sermons, 1. Sermon preached at Paul's Cross 25th of November 1621, upon occasion of a report, touching the supposed apostasy of Dr. John King--late bishop of London, on John xv. 20, Lond. 1621; to which is also added the examination of Thomas Preston, taken before the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth 20th of December 1621, concerning his being the author of the said Report. 2. David's Enlargement, Morning Sermon on Psalm xxxii. 5. Oxon. 1625. 4to. |
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