Значение слова ARMSTRONG в Литературной энциклопедии

ARMSTRONG

JOHN, M.D. (1709-1779).-Poet, _s._ of the minister of Castleton, Roxburghshire, studied medicine, which he practised in London. He is remembered as the friend of Thomson, Mallet, and other literary celebrities of the time, and as the author of a poem on _The Art of Preserving Health_, which appeared in 1744, and in which a somewhat unpromising subject for poetic treatment is gracefully and ingeniously handled. His other works, consisting of some poems and prose essays, and a drama, _The Forced Marriage_, are forgotten, with the exception of the four stanzas at the end of the first part of Thomson's _Castle of Indolence_, describing the diseases incident to sloth, which he contributed.

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