Warton
Britishnoun
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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)
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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)
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Warton Leung, who did not intend to vote in Sunday’s election, said that the lack of choice in candidates dampened enthusiasm for voting.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2021
BAE, under government contract, also assembles the jets that drop these bombs in hangars just outside the village of Warton, Lancashire.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2019
The Age of Innocence A mini-marathon of films set in the Gilded Age gets underway with director Martin Scorsese’s 1993 period drama based on the Edith Warton novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2018
The county's Jubilee celebrations will reach their height on Monday with Jubilee beacons being lit at the Jubilee Tower near Darwen, Pendle Hill, Warton Crag neat Carnforth and St James Church in Haslingden.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2012
Perhaps the unique copy of The Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt which Warton says was amongst Tanner's books, but which has never appeared in any Bodleian Catalogue, may have perished from this cause.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
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