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=Locker, Frederick.= 182 Poet. Author London Lyrics, etc. Style airy and graceful. _See Century Mag. Feb. 1883._
=Lockhart, John Gibson.= 1794-1854. Scotch critic and biographer. A writer of much talent and for 27 years editor of the Quarterly Rev.: author Lives of Nelson, Scott, Burns, Napoleon, etc. _See H.
Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Har. Ho. Hou._
=Lockyer, Joseph Norman.= 183 Astronomer. Author Contributions to Solar Physics, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._
=Lodge, Edmund.= 1756-1839. Historian. Author Ill.u.s.trations of British Hist., Portraits of Ill.u.s.trious Persons of Gt. Britain, etc.
=Lodge, Thomas.= c. 1555-1625. Dramatist and Poet. To his novel Roslynde; Euphues Golden Legacy, Shakespeare owes the plot and incidents of As You Like It. _See As You Like It, Rolfe's edition, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. I._
=Logan, John.= 1748-1788. Scotch poet. His verse is fresh and simple, and his Song to the Cuckoo has great beauty. _See edition 1805, with Life._
=Long, George.= 1800-1879. Cla.s.sical scholar. Author Roman Law, Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic, etc.
=Loudon, Mrs. Jane.= 1800-1858. Wife to J. C. L. Author of The Mummy, a tale, and several horticultural works. _Pub. Rou. Wil._
=Loudon, John Claudius.= 1783-1843. Scotch horticulturist. His Arboretum Britannic.u.m is his chief work.
=Lovelace, Sir Richard.= 1618-1658. Poet. His verse is princ.i.p.ally amatory, and some of his songs are perfect of their kind. To Althea and To Lucasta are the most famous. _See Carew Hazlitt's edition of 1864, and Ward's English Poets, vol. 2._
=Lover, Samuel.= 1797-1868. Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet. Rory O'More and Handy Andy are his best known novels. His most famous song is Rory O'More. _See Life by Bayle Bernard, 1874, and Samuel Lover, by A. J. Symington._ _Pub. Por. Rou._
=Lower, Mark Antony.= 1813-1876. Author Eng. Surnames, Curiosities of Heraldry, Patronymica Britannica, etc.
=Lowndes, Wm. Thos.= ---- 1843. Bibliographer. Author British Librarian and The Bibliographer's Manual.
=Lowth [louth], Rob't.= 1710-1787. Bp. London. Son to W. L. A cla.s.sical and theological writer of great learning. _See Life, by Peter Hall, 1834._
=Lowth, Wm.= 1661-1732. Theologian of note.
=Lubbock, Sir John.= 183 Naturalist. Author Origin of Civilization, Pre-Historic Times, British Wild Flowers, etc. _Pub.
Apl. Mac._
=Lydgate, John.= 1370-1450. Poet. An exceedingly diffuse rhymer. _See minor works of pub. by the Percy Soc. 1842, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. I._
=Lyell, Sir Chas.= 1797-1875. Geologist. Author Elements of Geology, Travels in N. America, Antiquity of Man, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip._
=Lyly or Lily, John.= 1553-1598. Dramatic poet. His dramas are forgotten, but his prose romance, Euphues and his England, is remembered for the great influence it had upon the speech of the time.
L. was a reformer, though pedantic and fantastic. Euphuism has been ridiculed by Sydney, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Walter Scott. _See Collins's Hist. Dramatic Poetry, Lamb's Specimens Early Eng. Poets, and Chas. Kingsley's Westward Ho._
=Lyndsay.= See Lindsay, David.
=Lyte, Henry Francis.= 1793-1847. Poet. His hymn, Abide with Me, is widely known. _Pub. Le. Ran._
=Lyttleton, George, Lord.= 1709-1773. Author Dialogues of the Dead, Hist. Henry II., etc. _See Life, by Phillimore, 1845._
=Lytton.= See Bulwer-Lytton.
=Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine.= 1733-1791. Historian. Author Hist. of England during the Stuart dynasty, etc.
=Macaulay, Thos. Babington, Lord.= 1800-1859. Poet, essayist, and historian. A brilliant but partisan writer. The impetuous rush and vigor of his Lays of Ancient Rome obscure their poetical defects. His essays are numerous and cover a wide range. His Hist. of England is a superb piece of writing but it lacks the calm impartiality that a history should possess. _See Lines by Milman, F. Arnold and G. O.