AMBROSE PHILIPS
\ˈambɹə͡ʊz fˈɪlɪps], \ˈambɹəʊz fˈɪlɪps], \ˈa_m_b_ɹ_əʊ_z f_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_p_s]\
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An English poet; born in Leicestershire, 1675 (?); died 1749. He wrote a series of "Pastorals" (1709); "The Distressed Mother" (1712), a drama adapted from the "Andromache" of Racine, and highly praised by Addison in the Spectator; "The Briton" and "Humphry, Duke of Gloucester", dramas (1722). He wrote also some epigrams, and made translations of odes of Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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