Smart, Christopher, English poet, born in Kent; was a Fellow of Cambridge and a friend of Johnson's; author of the “Song to David,” now famous, much overrated, think some; he was subject to insanity, and it was written during lucid intervals; he was the author of a prose translation of Horace (1722‒1771).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Sly, Christopher * Smeaton, John