Philips, John, littérateur, born in Oxfordshire, author of “The Splendid Shilling,” an admirable burlesque in imitation of Milton, and a poem, “Cider,” an imitation of Virgil (1676‒1708).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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