Authority Cited: Rymer
Author name and dates: Thomas Rymer (1641-1713)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Learned critic; multivolume historic document pub. caused financial loss; SJ: R. criticism had ferocity of a tyrant
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 13 Rymer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, and about 8 Rymer cites in Dict. vol. 2. One Rymer cite was identified (2025) as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The edition of the Tragedies of the Last Age used by SJ is unkown; there was also a 1692 edition. The headwords below in brackets are cited only as Rymer.]
Author name and dates: Thomas Rymer (1641-1713)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Learned critic; multivolume historic document pub. caused financial loss; SJ: R. criticism had ferocity of a tyrant
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 13 Rymer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, and about 8 Rymer cites in Dict. vol. 2. One Rymer cite was identified (2025) as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The edition of the Tragedies of the Last Age used by SJ is unkown; there was also a 1692 edition. The headwords below in brackets are cited only as Rymer.]
- Tragedies of the Last Age: The tragedies of the last age consider'd and examin'd by the practice of the ancients and by the common sense of all ages in a letter to Fleetwood Shepheard, Esq., by Thomas Rymer of Grays-Inn Esquire. 1678, London: Printed for Richard Tonson at his shop under Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane; accidental; altitude; camerade; cater-cousin; cloister; collegiate; conjunction; cue; [cut out, p.10]; endeavourer; forenotice; grammaticaster; [help, p.6]; [lumber, p.41]; [mad, p.7]; [morally, p. 22]; [positive, p.10]; [spring, p.6]; tragedy; with;
- Rymer (no work cited); [cajole] [BKG Note: the cited quote: "My tongue that wanted to cajole / I try'd, but not a word wou'd troll" was not found in the title above; the poetry may be from another title.]; percussion [BKG Note: the cited quote: "In double rhymes the percussion is stronger" was not found in the title above, but a similar passage was found in the Translator's Preface of Reflections on Aristotle's treatise of poesie containing the necessary, rational, and universal rules for epick, dramatick, and the other sorts of poetry : with reflections on the works of the ancient and modern poets, and their faults noted / by R. Rapin, 1674, London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange: "In the Italian and Spanish, where all the Rimes are dissyllable, and the percussion stronger, this kind of Verse may be necessary . . . " The inexact quote is perhaps from memory. Rymer was not named as translator in the text, but is noted by SJ as the translator in Lives; see Yale vol. 21, pp. 64, 370.]