Значение слова DAVIES в Литературной энциклопедии

1) JOHN (1565?-1618).-Called "the Welsh Poet," was a writing-master, wrote very copiously and rather tediously on theological and philosophical themes. His works include _Mirum in Modum_, _Microcosmus_ (1602), and _The Picture of a Happy Man_ (1612). _Wit's Bedlam_ (1617), and many epigrams on his contemporaries which have some historical interest. 2) DAVIES, SIR JOHN (1569-1626).-Lawyer and poet, _s._ of a lawyer at Westbury, Wiltshire, was _ed._ at Winchester and Oxf., and became a barrister of the Middle Temple, 1595. He was a member successively of the English and Irish Houses of Commons, and held various legal offices. In literature he is known as the writer of two poems, _Orchestra: a Poem of Dancing_ (1594), and _Nosce Teipsum_ (Know Thyself), in two elegies (1) Of Humane Knowledge (2) Of the Immortality of the Soul. The poem consists of quatrains, each containing a complete and compactly expressed thought. It was _pub._ in 1599. D. was also the author of treatises on law and politics. 3) DAVIS, or DAVYS, JOHN (1550?-1605).-Navigator, known as D. of Sandridge to distinguish him from another of the same name. He was one of the most enterprising of the Elizabethan sailors, who devoted themselves to the discovery of the North-west Passage. Davis Strait was discovered by, and named after, him. He made many voyages, in the last of which he met his death at the hands of a Japanese pirate. He was the author of a book, now very scarce, _The World's Hydrographical Description_, and he also wrote a work on practical navigation, _The Seaman's Secrets_, which had great repute. 4) DAVIS, THOMAS OSBORNE (1814-1845).-Poet, _b._ at Mallow, _ed._ at Trinity Coll., Dublin, and called to the Irish Bar 1838. He was one of the founders of _The Nation_ newspaper, and of the Young Ireland party. He wrote some stirring patriotic ballads, originally contributed to _The Nation_, and afterwards republished as _Spirit of the Nation_, also a memoir of Curran the great Irish lawyer and orator, prefixed to an ed. of his speeches; and he had formed many literary plans which were brought to naught by his untimely death.