John Vardill

AJV 's father, John Vardill , was born in the American colonies in 1749 and educated at King's College , New York (the forerunner of Columbia University). In 1773 he became Professor of Natural Law...

Vardill's style here combines the weightily, effectively Augustan with more ornamented touches of sensibility. The breadth of the subject gives opportunity for evoking sorrow as well as pleasure, notably in a passage about a man...