Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . by Nntt (1810), T. .MaitUnd(Lord Dundrennan, 1823). Dr Grosart (3 vols. 1876), Pollard (1891,with a preface by A. C Swinburne, and 1905), G. Saintsbury (1893),and F. W. Moorman (1915). See Go>sea SeveMteeMtk CtnturyStitdUs (1883), a German monograph by E. Hale (Halle, 1892), aFrench by L. Delattrc (1912), and an English by Moorman (1910). 566 Francis Quarles Francis Quarles (1592-1644) wrote moreli
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . by Nntt (1810), T. .MaitUnd(Lord Dundrennan, 1823). Dr Grosart (3 vols. 1876), Pollard (1891,with a preface by A. C Swinburne, and 1905), G. Saintsbury (1893),and F. W. Moorman (1915). See Go>sea SeveMteeMtk CtnturyStitdUs (1883), a German monograph by E. Hale (Halle, 1892), aFrench by L. Delattrc (1912), and an English by Moorman (1910). 566 Francis Quarles Francis Quarles (1592-1644) wrote morelike a divine or contemplative recluse than abusy man of the world who held various publicposts. Born at the manor-house of Stewards,Romford, he took his in 1608 from ChristsCollege, Cambridge, and then entered LincolnsInn. He was cup-bearer at Heidelberg to Eliza-beth of Bohemia 1613-19, secretary to ArchbishopUssher, and chronologer from 1639 to the city ofLondon. He espoused the cause of Charles I.,and was so harassed by the Roundhead party, whoinjured his property and plundered him of hisbooks and rare manuscripts, that his death wasattributed to the afHiction and ill-health caused. FRANCIS (JUARLES. From the Picture by W. Dobson in die Xational Portrait Gallery. by these disasters. Notwithstanding his loyalty,the works of Quarles have a tinge of Puritanismand ascetic piety that might have mollified therage of his persecutors. His poems include AFeast for Wormes set forth in a Poeme of theHistory of Jonah (1620); Hadassa: History ofQueciie Ester (1621); fob Militant (1624) ; SionsSonets (1625); Argalus atid Parthenia (1629,on the story from Sidneys Arcadia) ; Historicof Samson (1631) ; Divine Emblems (1635) ; andHieroglyphikes of the Life of Man (1638), thetwo last quaintly illustrated. The Emblems «-erewonderfully popular, but rather with the peoplethan the cultured or well-born. Even in hisown time Anthony Wood sneered at him, thougha staunch royalist, as an old puri
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