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His Knowledge was various profound and accurate; and he imparted it without effort or ostentation. His Wit illuminated every object which it touched, but its brilliancy though powerful was unoffending. In the maturity of literary excellence he listened with the humility of a Learner, and amidst the
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It is, indeed, difficult to estimate too highly the services which Ellis rendered to literature by the publication of this work. The interminable ballad romances of the middle ages had daunted all but the few initiated; but then, as if by magic, they became the friends and companions of thousands.
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A library is like a butcher's shop: it contains plenty of meat, but it is all raw; no person living ... can find a meal in it, till some good cook (suppose yourself) comes in and says, "Sir, I see by your looks that you are hungry; I know your taste – be patient for a moment, and you shall
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Scott ranked Ellis first among all the conversers he had ever known, but his undoubted social graces did not charm everyone. Robert Southey thought Ellis had "a little too much of the air of high life, a little too much of the conversationist ... and something in his manners which showed, or
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George received an income dependent on the plantation's output, which ranged from 40-80 hogsheads of sugar and 20-40 puncheons of rum. He travelled to Jamaica early in 1780, inspected his property there, contracted fever, and returned to England in late 1781. When his uncle John was lost at sea in
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When his father, also named George, died young, the slave estates of the young George Ellis were run by his paternal uncle John Ellis. However, George would later complain to his maternal uncle, Edward Long, about John's avarice. George favoured leasing the
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dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, in modern spelling, with historical and biographical notes. The second edition, published in 1801, was expanded from one volume to three, and extended the chronological range so as to include the
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Ellis was a natural collaborator, but some of his ventures around this time did not reach completion. He worked on a glossary to accompany a proposed edition of the Middle English romance
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George Ellis died on 10 April 1815. George and his wife Anne did not have any surviving children, and his Jamaican sugar estates and slaves passed to his cousin
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with a verse translation of the "Lament for the Death of Simon of Montfort", though this did not appear until after both their deaths, in Ritson's
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George Ellis was born in Jamaica on 19 December 1753, the posthumous son of a sugar-planter. His grandfather, also called George Ellis, was
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Specimens of English Prose-Writers, from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches Biographical and Literary
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proved to be a popular work, going through six editions between 1790 and 1851, and on the strength of it Ellis was hailed in 1804 in the
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1782, George took control of his slave plantations in Jamaica, but did not pursue his original objective to lease Caymanas.
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plantation, but John insisted "upon my keeping the Caymanas in my own hands". In the end, John won that battle of wills.
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His second project, a collaboration with Gregory Lewis Way, was an edition of a number of 12th- and 13th-century French
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and entered Pitt's government, and Ellis followed him, becoming a close friend of the rising young politician
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Ellis's work was published in three volumes in 1805, with a second edition in 1811, and a third in 1848.
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society as a young man of wit, charm and literary talent. Ellis published two volumes of light verse,
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as "the hope of poetic archaeology". His format was imitated by several writers connected with the
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were published in 1796 and 1800, and a three-volume edition, with corrections, appeared in 1815.
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seemed to show, that it was a condescension in him to be a man of letters." The bibliographer
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The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges: Volume 1
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by his friend Thomas Park, but Park eventually abandoned the idea. He also encouraged
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare: With Notes
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Memoir of a Map of the Countries Comprehended between the Black Sea and the Caspian
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favourably, commenting on their wit and elegance, and Ellis responded by praising
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
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noted that Ellis was "a favourite". He went on to contribute to the anti-
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Enchanted Ground: The Study of Medieval Romance in the Eighteenth Century
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In 1784, he was employed as an aide by his friend the Whig diplomat Sir
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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The Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich: Volume 2
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The Invention of Middle English: An Anthology of Primary Sources
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as including "some of the purest and most classical passages of
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and other engravers. Ellis's contribution was later praised in
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Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in All Languages on Sale
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severest studies he could relax in the playfulness of a Child.
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composition which this age has produced". The two volumes of
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Specimens of the Later English Poets, with Preliminary Notices
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Rigg, J. M.; Mills, Rebecca. "Ellis, George (1753–1815)".
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English antiquary, satirical poet and Member of Parliament
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poet and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his
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He was brought to England in 1755, and according to the
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The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey: Volume 2
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Ellis's first work of literary antiquarianism was his
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The Wizard of the North: The Life of Sir Walter Scott
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A Bibliographical Guide to Bohn's Antiquarian Library
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Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry 1579–1830
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The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb: Volume 2
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Volume 2 704:Ellis is not, however, listed in Venn's 678: 676: 674: 672: 670: 1354:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 1132: 1000:. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell. p. 135 951: 858:Southey, Charles Cuthbert, ed. (1850). 857: 225: 1600: 1283:The Electronic British Library Journal 1098: 1023:. Stamford: Paul Watkins. p. 15. 620: 618: 616: 614: 612: 610: 608: 1350: 919:"Catalogue entry for the 2nd edition" 899:. David Hill Radcliffe, Virginia Tech 823: 667: 68:His full name was George Rose Ellis. 1628:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 1419:Specimens of the Early English Poets 1329: 1310: 1018: 786: 555:Nor less the dullest theme bid flit, 232:Specimens of the Early English Poets 35:Specimens of the Early English Poets 605: 574:, the son of his uncle John Ellis. 565: 551:Thou, who can give to lightest lay, 390:Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës 174:The History of the Dutch Revolution 88:He soon made a name for himself in 13: 1206:. 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Index

FSA
antiquary
satirical
Middle English
Chief Justice of Jamaica
Edward Long
ODNB
Westminster School
Trinity College, Cambridge
Whig
Versailles
Horace Walpole
Pitt
The Rolliad
The Cedars
Sunninghill, Berkshire
John Yorke
Caymanas Park
James Harris
Memoir of a Map of the Countries Comprehended between the Black Sea and the Caspian
Louis XVIII
Tory
George Canning
Westbury
Seaford
House of Commons
William Gifford
Peter Parker
Parliament
lyric poems

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