Warton

/ ˈwɔːtən /

noun

1. WartonJoseph17221800MBritishWRITING: poetWRITING: critic Joseph. 1722–1800, British poet and critic, noted for his poem The Enthusiast (1744) and his Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756)
2. WartonThomas17281790MBritishWRITING: poetWRITING: poet laureate his brother Thomas . 1728–90, poet laureate (1785–90); author of the poem The Pleasures of Melancholy (1747) and the first History of English Poetry (1774–81)

Example Sentences

From The MEN:Hadfield-Hyde, of Warton Street, Lytham St Annes, claimed she had been ordered to strip off by a guard.

From The Daily Beast

Warton calmly observes: 'there is not a syllable of these songs and singers of Lorraine in the French.'

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For examples of walls or ceilings being painted with various subjects, see Warton's Hist.

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These questions I heard proposed in a company of literati, when I inquired concerning this design of Warton.

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Mr. Thomas Warton observed, "they may have been written by Walpole, and buckramed by Mason."

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He identified Rockton and Warton, but not the other two who had formed the group near his berth, on his first visit to the deck.

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