Comonplace book in a single hand kept by the Rev. Francis Negus and containing mostly English literary excerpts in verse and prose. Poets quoted include Milton, Shakespeare, Cowley, Dryden, Rowe, Prior, Akenside and Arne; prose authors include Gibbon,...
Description:
Francis Colman Negus (1744-1818) was the son of the attorney Daniel Negus and Elizabeth Colman of Suffolk. Educated at Bury St. Edmunds grammar school and Cambridge University, he was rector of Brome and Oakley in Suffolk for many years.
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818., and Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, and Occasional verse, English
