Biographia Britannica : or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times . juft reverence and e-fteem. E (ij) Me moirespour fervir alHiftoire deshommesilluftres, p. 318. (18) DanielisMorhoffii Poly-hiftor. II, i, IS,,1,4. (19) ThomafiiHift. p. 84. (20) ,p, 761, 763. (zi) FourmontReflexions Criti-ques fur les Hi-ftoires des anciengpeuples, &c. DANIEL C 597 ] D A N I E L (Samve l), an eminent Poet and Hiftorian [A], in thereigns of Queen Elizabeth and King
Biographia Britannica : or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times . juft reverence and e-fteem. E (ij) Me moirespour fervir alHiftoire deshommesilluftres, p. 318. (18) DanielisMorhoffii Poly-hiftor. II, i, IS,,1,4. (19) ThomafiiHift. p. 84. (20) ,p, 761, 763. (zi) FourmontReflexions Criti-ques fur les Hi-ftoires des anciengpeuples, &c. DANIEL C 597 ] D A N I E L (Samve l), an eminent Poet and Hiftorian [A], in thereigns of Queen Elizabeth and King I, was fon of a Mufick-malter, and born near Taunton in Somerfetfhire (a), in the year 1562. (iJFWleriWor.[n I579 (b)* he was admitted a Commoner of Magdalen-Hall in Ox- ,hicof Ene|,nJ-ford •, where he continued about three years, and, by the help of an ex-cellent Tutor, made a confidcrable improvement in academical learning. (*) ^g^ his genius inclining him more to ftudies of a fofter and g^yer na- ta^S?. &1hture, he left the Univerfity without a degree, and applied himfelf to Englifh Hiftory and (0 Wood, A-thtn. 0» I. col. , (1) PoeticilWorld of MrS. Lo 41. [A] An eminent Poet and Hiftorian] Mr DanielsPoetical Works, confuting of Dramatic and otherPieces, are as follows. I. The Complaint of , 1594, 1598, 1611, and 1623, in 4*0. II. ALetter from OStavia to Marcus Antonius. London,1611, in 8yo(i). Thefe two pieces refemble eachother both in the fubjeft and ftile, being written in theOviJian manner, with great tendernefs and variety ofpaffions. The meafure is ftanzas of feven lines, ofwhich take the following fpecimen, where he makesRofamond fpeak of Beauty in as expreflive a manner asdefcription can reach. Ah ! Beauty, Syren, fair enchanting good,Sweet filent rhetrick of perfuading eyes ;Dumb eloquence, whofe powr doth move the blood,More than the words or wifdom of the wife ;Still harmony, whofe diapafon lie
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