“Our scope being of a greater latitude, affords less opportunity of those excursions, which, in his narrow bounds, are not only allowable, but necessary.”
About Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678
Thomas Stanley, born on 3 September 1625 and dead on 12 April 1678, was one of the most cultivated English writers of the seventeenth century: a lyric poet of the Cavalier age, a translator of Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish literature, an editor of Aeschylus, a patron and friend of writers, and the author…