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    Henry James Pye (/paɪ/; 20 February 1745 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. His appointment owed nothing...
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    Chamberlain, on the monarch's instructions. Since the appointment of Henry James Pye in 1790, the prime minister has recommended which candidate to appoint...
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    in De Monfort by Joanna Baillie (1800) Prince John in Adelaide by Henry James Pye (1800) Don Gusman in Antonio by William Godwin (1800) Clermont in Indiscretion...
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  • rules footballer Harry Pye (born 1973), British artist Harry Pye (footballer) (1880–1953), Australian Rules footballer Henry James Pye (1745–1813), English...
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    Joshua Reynolds's, D. George Thompson, published by Owen Bailey, after James William Edmund Doyle, published 1 October 1851 "He was ordained and eventually...
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    (1736–1800), who used it in a pun at the expense of Poet Laureate Henry James Pye (1745–1813) in 1790, but the first verse had already appeared in print...
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    of John Hervey, first Earl of Bristol by John Hervey Bristol, Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey The History of Essex: From the Earliest Period to the Present...
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    Laurence Eusden; Colley Cibber; William Whitehead; Thomas Warton; Henry James Pye; Robert Southey; William Wordsworth; Alfred Tennyson; and, four years...
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  • Edward Jerningham – Amabella Mary Wortley Montagu – Poetical Works Henry James Pye – Elegies Alexander Ross – The Fortunate Shepherdess Christopher Smart...
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    Adelaide (1800 play) (category Plays by Henry James Pye)
    an 1800 historical tragedy by the English writer and poet laureate Henry James Pye. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 25 January...
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    A Prior Claim (category Plays by Henry James Pye)
    an 1805 comedy play by the English writer and poet laureate Henry James Pye and Samuel James Arnold. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 29...
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    1843 Monarchs George III George IV William IV Victoria Preceded by Henry James Pye Succeeded by William Wordsworth Personal details Born (1774-08-12)12...
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  • – The Tears of A Genius, occasioned by the Death of Dr. Goldsmith Henry James Pye – Farringdon Hill Mary Scott – The Female Advocate Candido Maria Trigueros...
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  • Morton – The School of Reform Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger – Hakon Jarl Henry James Pye – A Prior Claim Frederick Reynolds – The Delinquent John Tobin – The...
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    such respected literary figures as James Boswell (biographer of Samuel Johnson) and poet laureate Henry James Pye pronounced them genuine, as did various...
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  • Usurper James Beattie – The Minstrel James Cawthorn – Poems John Langhorne – The Fables of Flora Thomas Percy – The Hermit of Warkworth Henry James Pye – The...
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  • printer and antiquary (died 1826) February 20 – Henry James Pye, English poet (died 1813) July 26 – Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist, writer and poet...
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  • John Pomfret – Alexander Pope – Kenrick Prescot – Matthew Prior – Henry James Pye – Richard Savage – John Scott of Amwell – Anna Seward – William Shenstone...
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  • Oliver Goldsmith, ed. – Poems for Young Ladies Charles Jenner – Poems Henry James Pye – Beauty Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg – Gedicht eines Skalden Francis...
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    (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Sambrook, James (2004). "Pye, Henry James (1745–1813)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed...
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    Venetian Outlaw by Robert William Elliston (1805) Henry Mortimer in A Prior Claim by Henry James Pye (1805) Lord Belmour in The School for Friends by Marianne...
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  • offer to succeed him as Poet Laureate of Great Britain. Retired MP Henry James Pye is appointed in his place. May 31 – United States President George...
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  • Way" by Adelaide A. Pollard Adelaide (1800 play), an 1800 play by Henry James Pye Adelaide (play), an 1814 play by Richard Lalor Sheil Adélaïde (film)...
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  • Jungfrau von Orleans) Maria Stuart William Sotheby – Julian and Agnes Henry James Pye – Alfred William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads...
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    The Siege of Meaux (category Plays by Henry James Pye)
    Siege of Meaux is a 1794 historical tragedy by the English writer Henry James Pye. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 19 May 1794. It...
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  • The Jew The Box-Lobby Challenge Elizabeth Inchbald – The Wedding Day Henry James Pye – The Siege of Meaux François Juste Marie Raynouard – Caton d'Utique...
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    assertion" (IV.5), and Henry James Pye, the previous poet laureate, Byron criticised by pun: "four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye" (I.8), edged wordplay...
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  • to the Pyes of Faringdon, and was inherited by Harry James Pye (1802–1884) (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1840), the son of Henry James Pye, Poet Laureate...
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  • for Prejudice William Godwin – Antonio Prince Hoare – Indiscretion Henry James Pye – Adelaide Frederick Reynolds – Life Friedrich Schiller – Maria Stuart...
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  • Anne Burges, Scottish religious allegorist (born 1763) August 11 – Henry James Pye, English Poet Laureate (born 1745) August 26 – Theodor Körner, German...
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