Значение слова MASON в Литературной энциклопедии

WILLIAM (1724-1797).-Poet, _s._ of a clergyman, was _b._ at Hull, and _ed._ at Camb. He took orders and rose to be a Canon of York. His first poem was _Musaeus_, a monody on the death of Pope, and his other works include _Elfrida_ (1752), and _Caractacus_ (1759), dramas-an _Heroic Epistle_ to Sir William Chambers, the architect, in which he satirised some modern fashions in gardening, _The English Garden_, his largest work, and some odes. He was a close friend of Gray, whose Life he wrote. His language was too magnificent for his powers of thought, but he has passages where the rich diction has a pleasing effect.