AUTHORS QUOTED IN THIS CYCLOPEDIA With Places and Dates of Births and Deaths, and Brief NOTE.-The star (*) which precedes the names of some of the authors quoted indicates that they are cited too frequently to make it necessary to give the page folios on which quotations from their works will be found. Where the author is anonymous, the name of the volume or collection in which the quotation appears is cited. The following abbrevia tions are employed: a, or ab.=about; b.=born; B.c.=Before Christ; c.=circa (about); d.=Dead or died; fl.=flourished; L.=Living or lived. man.. BETTS, MARY FRANCES BEVERLY, MIKE, song writer. medieval romance. BEYLE, MARIE HENRI, novelist, critic, BEVIS OF HAMPTOUN, SIR, a hero of 40 210 787 97 221 321 *BIBLE, quotations in alphabetical or- BICKERSTAFF, ISAAC, dramatist, IRELAND, about 1735-after 1787 91 643 681 902 BOARDMAN, GEORGE DANA, mission- 787 UNITED STATES, 1801-1831 .470(?)-525 seller.... ENGLAND, 1796-1884 124 FRANCE, 1430-1494 FRANCE, 1636-1711 critic.. ENGLAND, 1850-L. COMTE DE, poet, scholar, BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, NICHOLAS, poet and satirist. *BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 767 BOOTH, REV. JOHN 502 ENGLAND, 1723-1780 BORROW, GEORGE HENRY, writer, 907 673 Gypsy scholar..... ENGLAND, 1803-1881 842 BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM, jurist, 369 550 683 BLAIR, HUGH, clergyman, prof. of FRANCE, 1810-1861 and pulpit orator... FRANCE, 1627-1704 BOSWELL, JAMES, lawyer and biog- 32 908 Samuel Johnson is quoted. SCOTLAND, 1740-1759 |