Beaumont, Sir John, 1st Baronet — ▪ English author born 1583, Grace Dieu?, Leicestershire, Eng. died April 1627, London? English poet whose work helped to establish the heroic couplet as a dominant verse form. His most important works are The Metamorphosis of Tobacco (1602) … Universalium
Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet — (1583 ndash; April 19, 1627), was an English poet.He was born at Grace Dieu in Leicestershire, the second son of the judge, Sir Francis Beaumont.The deaths of his father (in 1598) and of his elder brother, Sir Henry Beaumont (in 1605), made the… … Wikipedia
Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet — (1713 1 July 1777) was a Welsh politician and landowner.Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in 1729 and 1730. In November of the… … Wikipedia
Sir John van Olden Barnavelt — The Tragedy of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt was a Jacobean play written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger in 1619, and produced in the same year by the King s Men at the Globe Theatre. Based on controversial contemporaneous political events,… … Wikipedia
Suckling, Sir John — born February 1609, Whitton, Middlesex, Eng. died 1642, Paris, France English Cavalier poet, dramatist, and courtier. He inherited his father s considerable estates at age 18 and became prominent at court as a gallant and a gamester; he is… … Universalium
Beaumont Brothers, Sir John and Francis — (1583 1627) John, the elder, 1583 1627 From Leicestershire, on the death of his father in 1598, John had to leave university, and like his brother, he preferred literature to law. In 1602 he published anonymously Metamorphosis of Tobacco, a… … British and Irish poets
John Taylor (Dichter) — Porträt von John Taylor auf der Titelseite seiner Gedichte Anthologie von 1630 John Taylor (* 24. August 1578 in Gloucester, England; † im Dezember 1653 in London) war ein englischer Dichter. Er nannte sich selbst The Water Poet (der Wasser… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Sir John Beaumont — Maldad No existen los tiempos malos, es malo el hombre … Diccionario de citas
Beaumont College — was a Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England. In 1967 the school closed. The property is now occupied by a conference centre. History of the estateThe estate lies by the River Thames on the historic highway from Staines to… … Wikipedia
John Fletcher (playwright) — John Fletcher (1579 ndash; 1625) was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King s Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early… … Wikipedia