Author:John Oldmixon

John Oldmixon
(1673–1742)

Works

• Poems on several occasions, written in imitation of the manner of Anacreon etc (1696)
• An idyll on the peace (1697)
• Thyrsis: a pastoral. In P. A. Motteux, The novelty (1697)
• Amintas: a pastoral, made English out of Italian from the Aminta of Tasso (1698)
• A poem humbly addrest to the Earl of Portland on his Lordships return from his embassy in France (1698)
• Reflections on the stage and Mr Collyer's Defence of the Short view (1699)
• The grove, or love's paradice: an opera (1700)
• A funerall idyll, sacred to the glorious memory of K. William III (1702)
• The governour of Cyprus: a tragedy (1703)
• Amores britannici: epistles historical and gallant, in English heroic verse. 2 vols, (1703)
• A pastoral poem on the victories at Schellenburgh and Blenheim, with a large preface shewing the antiquity and dignity of pastoral poetry (1704)
• "Life of Blake", in Lives English and foreign, vol 2, (1704)
• Iberia liberate: a poem occasion'd by the success of her Majesties arms in Catalonia, Valencia etc (1706)
• The British Empire in America (1708), in 2 vols. (external scan)
• The history of addresses. 2 vols, (1709-11)
• A letter to the seven Lords of the committee appointed to examine Gregg (1711)
• Remarks upon remarks: or the barrister-treaty and the succession vindicated (1711)
• The history of Dr Sacheverell faithfully transcribed from the Paris-gazette with remarks comical and political (1711)
• Reflections on Dr Swift's letter to the Earl of Oxford about the English tongue (1712) Project Gutenberg
• The Dutch barrier our's: or the interest of England and Holland inseparable (1712)
• A defence of Mr. Maccartney, by a friend (1712) (external scan)
• Dejanira to Hercules. In Ovid's epistles, translated by several hands (1712)
• The Secret History of Europe (1712-15), in 4 vols.
• The life and history of Belisarius and a parallel between him and a modern heroe [Marlborough]. (1713)
• Arcana gallica: or, The secret history of France, for the last century (1714) (external scan)
• The false steps of the ministry after the revolution, with some reflections on the license of the pulpit and press (1714) (external scan)
• Memoirs of North-Britain, in which it is proved that the Scots nation have always been zealous in the defence of the Protestant religion and liberty (1715)
• Memoirs of the life of the most noble Thomas late Marquis of Wharton (1715)
• The life and posthumous works of Arthur Maynwaring (1715) [Anon].
• Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large (1715?)
• The Catholick poet [Pope], or Protestant Barnaby's sorrowful lamentation: an excellent new ballad (1716)
• Memoirs of the life of John Lord Somers, with a large introduction in vindication of the modern biography (1716)
• Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the present times (1716)
• The critical history of England, ecclesiastical and civil (1724, 1726), in 2 vols.
• A review of Dr. Zachary Grey's Defence of our ancient and modern historians (1725)
• Clarendon and Whitlock compar'd; to which is added a comparison between the History of the Rebellion and other histories of the Civil War (1727)
• An essay on criticism, as it regards design, thought and expression (1728) Project Gutenberg
• The arts of logick and rhetorick (1728)
• The history of England, during the reigns of the royal house of Stuart (1730)
• Mr Oldmixon's reply to the late Bishop Atterbury's Vindication of Bishop Smallridge, Dr Aldrich and himself (1732)
• The history of England during the reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I (1735)
• The history of England during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth (1739)
• The history and life of Robert Blake (1741)
• The history of Newfoundland: containing an account of its discovery, settlement, encrease, inhabitants, climate, soil, product, trade and present state (1741)
• Memoirs of the press, historical and political from 1710 to 1740 (1742)

As editor

• A complete history of England, with the lives of all the kings and queens thereof to the death of William III (1706, 1719), in 3 vols.
• The Muses Mercury: or the monthly miscellany (1707-08)
• The medley (1710-11)
• Poems and translations by several hands, to which is added the Hospital of fools: a dialogue by the late William Walsh (1714)
• The Court of Atalantis: containing a four years history of that famous island, intermixt with fables and epistles, by several hands (1714)

As translator

• Letters and negotiations of the Count D'Estrades translated by several hands [Partly trans. Oldmixon]
• The dedication for the Latin edition of Lucretius, written in the year 1711 by Dr Garth, now made English by Mr Oldmixon (1714)

Works about Oldmixon

• "John Oldmixon," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 109), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Mr. John Oldmixon", in The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 4 (1753), edited by Theophilus Cibber
• "Oldmixon, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Oldmixon, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Oldmixon, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)