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NICHOLAS BRETON'S "CROSSING OF PROVERBS."

By J. PAYNE COLLIER.

Although my query respecting William Basse and his poem, "Great Britain's Sun's Set," (No. 13. p. 200), produced no positive information touching that production, it gave an opportunity to some of your correspondents to communicate valuable intelligence relating to the author and to other works by him, for which I, for one, was very much obliged. If I did not obtain exactly what I wanted, I obtained something that hereafter may be extremely useful; and that I could not, perhaps, have obtained in any other way than through the medium of your pleasant and welcome periodical. I am now, therefore,…

Topics: Victorian Literature, Pamphleteers, Proverbs, Poetry

Locations: London, Newgate