Life
1708-1747; man of letters and son of Joseph Boyse (1660-1728), a Presbyterian
minister in Dublin from 1683-1728 and author of controversial tracts; b.
Dublin; ed. Glasgow Univ.; adopted no profession; befriended by
Dr. Johnston, praised by Fielding for The Deity
(1739), a poem; issued An Historical Review of the Transactions
of Europe 1739-45 (1747); modernised Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
(1741) [note that this is also ascribed to George Ogle, with a contribution
by Henry Brooke]; popular Pantheon or Fabulous History of the Heathen
Gods. trans. Dutch poetry, and died in poverty. RR CAB DNB DIW
OCI.
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