William Somervile or Somerville (2 September 1675 – 17 July 1742) was an English poet who wrote in many genres and is especially remembered for "The Chace", in which he pioneered an early English georgic.
WilliamSomervile or Somerville (2 September 1675 – 17 July 1742) was an English poet who wrote in many genres and is especially remembered for "The Chace"...
William Somerville may refer to: WilliamSomervile (1675–1742), English poet, also written as William Somerville William Somerville (cricketer) (born 1984)...
I supposed a fallen star I found I had been cozened with a jelly. WilliamSomervile, in 1740, wrote in The Talisman: Swift as the shooting star, that...
– The Destruction of Troy William Shenstone – The School-Mistress WilliamSomervile – Field Sports Charles Hanbury Williams – The Country Girl: An ode...
1661 – Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (d. 1733) 1675 – WilliamSomervile, English poet and author (d. 1742) 1753 – Marie Joséphine of Savoy...
families. A descendant of Walter de Somerville was the English poet WilliamSomervile (1675–1742). The Somervilles of Cambusnethan were a scion of the Somerville...
drunken country festival", according to an account written by the poet WilliamSomervile in 1740. By then the games, known as Dover's Meeting, were well established...
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke – A Dissertation upon Parties WilliamSomervile – The Chace Jonathan Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot, et al. Miscellanies in...
Pope – The Odyssey of Homer Richard Savage – Miscellaneous Poems WilliamSomervile – Occasional Poems Jonathan Swift (anonymously) – Cadenus and Vanessa...
deputation of London publishers and booksellers, led by Thomas Davies, William Strahan and Thomas Cadell, to provide short biographies for a standard...
Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai. October 7 – WilliamSomervile inherits his father's estate, where field sports will inspire much...
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747) September 2 – WilliamSomervile, English poet (d. 1742) September 3 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General...
Knight, Lady Luxborough which also included other literary friends, WilliamSomervile and Richard Graves, rector of Claverton. Shenstone dedicated a bench...
Evans, English clergyman, academic and poet (died 1737) September 2 – WilliamSomervile, English poet (died 1742) October 11 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher...
– Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (b. 1662) July 19 – WilliamSomervile, English poet (b. 1675) July 23 – Susanna Wesley, mother of John and...
Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1550) 1742 – WilliamSomervile, English poet and author (b. 1675) 1810 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...
WilliamSomervile, poet Edward Young, poet Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, Hebraist and English grammarian William Whitehead, Poet Laureate William Collins...
himself uncovered to attack in future. In the following century, WilliamSomervile reinterpreted the fly as a nuisance-making demagogue who can safely...
and two mistresses" I.17). Eschewing La Fontaine's pointed brevity, WilliamSomervile adapted the Phaedrus account to a cautionary tale of inordinate length...
Turner Smith – George Smith – John Smith – Tobias Smollett – WilliamSomervile – William Sotheby – Robert Southey – Lawrence Spooner – Philip Dormer Stanhope...
was included in William Caxton's collection, and was made the subject of a Neo-Latin poem by Hieronymus Osius. In WilliamSomervile's retelling, the moral...
– Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (b. 1662) July 19 – WilliamSomervile, English poet (b. 1675) July 23 – Susanna Wesley, mother of John and...
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