The British Musical Biography

[E] Brown John, clergyman and writer, born
at Rothbury, Northumberland, 1715. Edu-
cated at Cambridge. Vicar of Great Horkesley,
Essex, 1754. Vicar of St. Nicholas', New-
castle, 1758. Committed suicide while insane,
September 23rd, 1766.

[W] Works. — Honour, a poem ; Essay on satire ;
Sermons; Essays on Shaftesbury's Character-
istics, 1751 ; Dissertation on the rise, union,
and poAver, the progressions, separations, and
corruptions of poetry and music, to which is
prefixed The Cure of Saul, a sacred ode,
London, 1763 ; Remarks on some observations
on Dr. Brown's dissertation on poetry and
musick, London, 1764 ; An estimate of the
manners and principles of the times, 1757.

[+] An Italian edition of the Dissertation was
published in 1772.

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