Walter Harte
Walter Harte (1709–1774) was an English poet and historian. He was a friend of Alexander Pope, Oxford don, canon of Windsor, and vice-principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.
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- Educated at
- St Mary HallMarlborough Royal Free Grammar School
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"Harte was excessively vain. He put copies of his book in manuscript into the hands of lord Chesterfield and lord Granville, that they might revise it. Now how absurd was it to suppose that two such no…"
"He was fitter for that than for heroick history: he did well when he turned his sword into a ploughshare."
"Samuel Hartlib, a celebrated writer on husbandry in the last century, a gentleman much beloved and esteemed by Milton, in his preface to the work, commonly called his Legacy, laments greatly that no p…"
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1709
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Birth1774
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