tryon, and concludes them with this juſt remark in compliment to our nation; ‘We find that many fine things of the antients, are like ſeeds, that when planted on Engliſh ground, by a poet’s ſkilful hand, thrive and produce excellent fruit.’
Theſe three plays are printed in a pocket-volume, dedicated to Sir Charles Sedley; to which is prefixed a recommendatory copy of verſes, by Mr. Tate.
Mr. Eachard died in the year 1730.
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Mr. John Oldmixon
Was deſcended from the antient family of the Oldmixons, of Oldmixon near Bridgewater in Somerſetſhire.[1] We have no account of the education of this gentleman, nor the year in which he was born. The firſt production we meet with of his was Amyntas, a paſtoral, acted at the Theatre-Royal, taken from the Amynta of Taſſo. The preface informs us, that it met with but ill ſucceſs, for paſtoral, though never ſo well written, is not fit for a long entertainment on the Engliſh Theatre: But the original pleaſed in Italy, where the performance of the muſical compoſer is generally more regarded than that of the poet. The Prologue was written by Mr. Dennis.
- ↑ See Jacob’s Lives of the Poets, p. 197.