John Byrom
Sign in to saveEnglish poet and inventor of a shorthand system
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1692
- Died
- 1763
- Works
- 23
Top works
- An epistle to a friend
- A full and true account of an horrid and barbarous robbery, committed on Epping-forest, upon the body of the Cambridge coach
- The prologue and epilogue to the new tragi-comical-farcical opera [by Samuel Johnson], call'd, Hurlothrumbo ...
- A Catalogue of the library of the late John Byrom, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., formerly fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, preserved at Kersall Cell, Lancashire
- Miscellaneous poems
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 40
- Total plays
- 73
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,297x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,530x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,118x
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Quotes
- “Sir, you must be all caution and no fear, and you'll find true what our old friend Archimedes said some while ago.”
- “Some say, that Signor Bononcini, Compared to Handel's a mere ninny; Others aver, to him, that Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange! that such high dispute should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.”
- “Christians, awake! salute the happy morn, Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born.”
- “Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.”
- “The point is plain as a pike-staff.”
- “Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.”
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to John Byrom, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana