Francis Fawkes (1720–1777) was an English poet and translator. He translated works by Anacreon, Sappho and other classical authors, modernised parts of the poems of Gavin Douglas, and was the author of the well-known song, The Brown Jug, and of two poems, Bramham Park and Partridge Shooting. His translation of the Argonautica in rhymed couplets appeared in 1780.
Argonautica in rhymed couplets appeared in 1780. Fawkes was born near Doncaster, the son of Jeremiah Fawkes, for twenty-eight years rector of Warmsworth,...
Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great...
Guy Fawkes (/fɔːks/; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial...
Minister in the first Pindling government. Fawkes was knighted by the Queen in her 1977 Birthday Honours. Fawkes is best remembered for the part he played...
name. Barbara Fawkes (1914–2002), British nurse and nursing educator FrancisFawkes (1721–1777), English poet and translator Frederick Fawkes (1870–1936)...
Fillpot was also the subject of a popular poem, 'The Brown Jug', by FrancisFawkes: DEAR TOM , this brown jug, that now foams with mild ale, (In which...
Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years of...
Sandra Fawkes (née Boyce-Carmichelle; 30 June 1929 – 26 December 2005) was a British journalist. Fawkes was found as a baby in the Grand Union Canal. She...
denoted 'modern'. Edward Burnaby Greene, The Argonautic Expedition (1780) FrancisFawkes, The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius (1780) William Preston, The Argonautics...
– The School for Guardians Michael Bruce – Elegy Written in Spring FrancisFawkes – Partridge-Shooting Oliver Goldsmith, ed. – The Beauties of English...
Harrison Ainsworth's 1841 historical romance Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason, portrays Fawkes in a generally sympathetic light, although it also...
Acorah filmed a one-off special for LivingTV, Derek Acorah's Quest for Guy Fawkes followed by Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns with Ruggie Media. This programme...
Charles Fawkes, a British printer. Mabel took her children with Charles to Britain in 1931. Enthused by comic books from a young age, Fawkes left school...
epistle to Robert Lloyd The Rosciad John Cleland – The Times!, vol. 2 FrancisFawkes – Original Poems and Translations Robert Lloyd – An Epistle to Charles...
variety of originals and translations, by the most eminent hands. by FrancisFawkes, 1720–1777. Others were published in different collections, as well...
including Thomas Wintour, John Wright, Thomas Percy, and Guy Fawkes. Over the following months, Fawkes helped to recruit a further eight conspirators into the...
Sarah Fyge Egerton – John Ellis – George Farewell – Joseph Fawcett – FrancisFawkes – Robert Fergusson – Frederick Forrest – John Freeth – George Galloway...
Davies, "An Ode on the Prospect of Peace", English, Colonial America FrancisFawkes, Original Poems and Translations Edward Jerningham, Andromache to Pyrrhus:...
(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Money, D. K. (2004). "Fawkes, Francis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). OUP. doi:10...
Change.org petition started by the right-wing blogger Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes) calling on the BBC to reinstate Clarkson has been signed by over 350,000...
volumes, one for each month in that year. They were edited by Woty and FrancisFawkes. ‘Church Langton:’ a poem, n.d. [1768?], in praise of the charitable...
produced by part publishing. The Complete Family Bible published by FrancisFawkes (part published 1761–2, sold in the provinces rather than London, illustrated...
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