Authority Cited: Croxal
Author name and dates: Samuel Croxal (1690-1752)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; anonymous Whig political pamphleteer and poetic satirist; trans. of parts of Ovid; Aesop’s Fables popular
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Croxall cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Croxall cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. Prof. Beth Rapp Young, U. of Central Florida has now (June 2024) identified the source for the quote.]
Author name and dates: Samuel Croxal (1690-1752)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; anonymous Whig political pamphleteer and poetic satirist; trans. of parts of Ovid; Aesop’s Fables popular
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Croxall cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Croxall cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. Prof. Beth Rapp Young, U. of Central Florida has now (June 2024) identified the source for the quote.]
- Fables of Aesop and others. Newly done into English. With an application to each fable. Illustrated with cutts. By Sam. Croxall, D.D., 1728, London: printed: and sold by Tho. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's Churchyard; fabulist (perhaps from memory: Dict.: "Quitting Aesop and the fabulists, he copies Boccace." Text, in Preface: ". . . he descants upon Boccace.") [BKG Note: Croxal's complaint is against L'Estrange.]