Settle, Elkanah (16481723)

Settle, Elkanah, a playwright who lives in the pages of Dryden's satireAbsalom and Achitophel”; was an Oxford man and littérateur in London; enjoyed a brief season of popularity as author of “Cambyses,” and “The Empress of Morocco”; degenerated into a “city poet and a puppet-show keeper,” and died in the Charterhouse; was the object of Dryden's and Pope's scathing sarcasms (16481723).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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Serpent, The
Serpukoff
Serrano y Dominguez
Sertorius
Servetus, Michael
Servia
Servius Tullius
Sesostris
Sestertius
Settle, Elkanah
Setubal
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Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Dolours of the Virgin
Seven Sages of Greece
Seven Sleepers
Seven Wise Masters
Seven Wonders of the World
Seven Years' War
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