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. No Rymer cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. 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)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
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. No Rymer cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. 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); percussion [BKG Note: the cited quote: "In double rhymes the percussion is stronger" was not found in the title above, perhaps an incorrect attribution from memory]