E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Akenside, Mark, M.D.
(b. Newcastle, November 9th, 1721; d. London, June 23rd, 1770). “An Epistle to Curio” (1744); “Pleasures of the Imagination” (1744); 2nd edition with the Poems (1772); “Ode to Lord Huntingdon” (1748); “Ode to Country Gentlemen of England” (1757); “Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards” (1763); “De Ortu et Incremento Fœtus Humani”
(1744); “Notes on the Postscript of a Pamphlet entitled ‘Observations, Anatomical, etc.’” (1758); “Oratio Harveiana” (1760); “De Dysentaria Commentarius” (1764). Poetical Works, including unpublished fragment (1804). Lives by Johnson, Bucke, Dyce.
