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Warton

/ ˈwɔːtən /

noun

  1. WartonJoseph17221800MBritishWRITING: poetWRITING: critic Joseph. 1722–1800, British poet and critic, noted for his poem The Enthusiast (1744) and his Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756)
  2. WartonThomas17281790MBritishWRITING: poetWRITING: poet laureate his brother Thomas . 1728–90, poet laureate (1785–90); author of the poem The Pleasures of Melancholy (1747) and the first History of English Poetry (1774–81)
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From The MEN:Hadfield-Hyde, of Warton Street, Lytham St Annes, claimed she had been ordered to strip off by a guard.

Warton calmly observes: 'there is not a syllable of these songs and singers of Lorraine in the French.'

For examples of walls or ceilings being painted with various subjects, see Warton's Hist.

These questions I heard proposed in a company of literati, when I inquired concerning this design of Warton.

Mr. Thomas Warton observed, "they may have been written by Walpole, and buckramed by Mason."

He identified Rockton and Warton, but not the other two who had formed the group near his berth, on his first visit to the deck.

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