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Thomas Overbury

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Also known as Sir Thomas Overbury

English poet and essayist (1581–1613)

Person · Open Library

Died
1684
Works
8

Top works

  • The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt
  • The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life. the Tenth Edition
  • The Wife, a Poem. Express'd in a Compleat Wife. with an Elegy on the Untimely Death of the Author, Poyson'd in the Tower, &c. by Sir Thomas Overbury. the Seventeenth Edition
  • Ratiocinium vernaculum, or, A reply to Ataxiae obstaculum
  • A true and perfect account of the examination, confession, tryal, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John & Richard Perry, and for the murder of William Harrison, Gent

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom

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Quotes

  • An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
  • He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries above his own.

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