Значение слова OLDMIXON в Литературной энциклопедии

JOHN (1673-1742).-Historical and miscellaneous writer, belonged to an old Somersetshire family, wrote some, now forgotten, dramas and poems which, along with an essay on criticism, in which he attacked Addison, Swift, and Pope, earned for him a place in _The Dunciad_. He was also the author of _The British Empire in America_ (1708), _Secret History of Europe_ (against the Stuarts), and in his _Critical History_ (1724-26) attacked Clarendon's _History of the Rebellion_. All these works are partisan in their tone. O. was one of the most prolific pamphleteers of his day.