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Definition of Francis Beaumont
1. Noun. English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616).
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Literary usage of Francis Beaumont
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1895)
"Francis Beaumont was five years younger than Fletcher, and was the third son of
Sir Francis Beaumont, of Grace- Dieu, Leicester, Justice of the Common Pleas ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Francis Beaumont 11584-16161 184 ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY MORTALITY,
behold and fear What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"It will be observed, from the title-page of the edition of 1602, that the name
of Francis Beaumont no where appears in connexion with it; and, without going ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1847)
"It will be observed, from the title-page of the edition of 1602, that the name
of Francis Beaumont no where appears in connexion with it; and, without going ..."
5. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"Francis Beaumont P. 174. The difference between the poems of Beaumont and those
of Fletcher shows two strongly opposed types of mind: Fletcher, musical, ..."