THE

LIVE S

OF THE

POET S

O F

GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.

Compiled from ample Materials fcattered in a Va-
riety of Books, and efpecially from the MS.
Notes of the late ingenious Mr. CoXETER and
others, collected for this Defign,

By Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands,

VO L. II.

LONDON:

Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, at the Dunciad in
St. Paul's Church-Yard.

MDCCLIN.

Romulus,

Tarquin the Elder,

Servius Tullus,

Brutus,

The Gracchi,

Marius.

Sylla,

Craffus,

Scipio,

Hannibal,

Pyrrhus,

219 Buckingham.

224 Smith

227 Otway

233

Just Published,

In one fma"! Octavo Volume, Price bound in Calf 35.

TRANSLA

A

of the Ingenious Abbé De

MABLY'S Obfervations on the ROMANS. A
learned and curious Performance; wherein the
Policy of that People is fet in fo clear a Light, and
the Characters of their great Men drawn with fuch a
mafterly Pen, as cannot but recommend it to all
Lovers of Claffical Learning.

In this Work many new Lights are caft upon

the Characters and Conduct of the following

celebrated Perfonages:

Pompey,

Cato,

Cafar,

Cicero,

240

265

269

Antony,

Auguftus,

Tiberius,

301.

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227

Caligula,

Claudius,

Otho,

Vitellius,

Vefpafian,

Titus,

Domitian,

Nerva,

Trajan,

Antoniuus,

Marcus Aurelius,

Dioclefian,

Conftantine the Great,

Nero,

Galba,
&c. &c. &c.

Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, in Paul's Church-Yard.

A

ANTHONY BREWER,

POET who flourished in the reign of Charles I. but of whose birth and life we can recover no particu lars. He was highly esteemed by fome wits in that reign, as appears from a Poem called Steps to Parnaffus, which pays him the following well turned compliment.

VOL. II. No. 6.

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