
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 additional Rymer cites were identified 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 additional Rymer cites were identified 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]