Ambrose Philips

In the 1720s she belonged to an informal literary club which included Anthony Hammond (with whom she was supposed to have had her most youthful liaison), Ambrose Philips , Martha Fowke , and Eliza Haywood .

For the moment it was Dacier's version which prevailed. Her translation went through three more editions before the end of the century; it was praised by La Motte , and in England influenced Ambrose Philips

When in her teens she attended performances of Ambrose Philips 's The Distressed Mother and Nicholas Rowe 's The Fair Penitent, she says, I shed more real tears on the occasion, than would have...

Verses written extempore in Mr A[shley] C[owper] 's Coke upon Littleton (the title of a standard legal textbook) by Judith Cowper (later Madan), appeared, to her dismay, in Ambrose Philips 's The Free-Thinker.

Among the earliest of Sappho 's translators into English was Anne Finch ; among recent translators is Mary Barnard , 1958. Stevie Smith declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem...

SD expresses personal emotion eloquently and social observation sardonically. The Wish follows sedately in the country-retirement tradition of John Pomfret , but To Miranda likens herself to Job, and adds a vivid image of shipwreck:...

Several writings here by JCM are not known from other sources, like a verse satire on a tragedy by Ambrose Philips (who had published and garbled her verses Written Extempore in Mr Ashley Cowper's Coke...