Author:William Oldisworth

William Oldisworth
(1680–1734)

Works

• The Cupid (1698).
• The Muses Mercury; or the Monthly Miscellany consisting of poems, prologues, songs, &c., never before printed. January 1707 to January 1708, both inclusive.
• A Dialogue between Timothy and Philatheus, in which the Principles and Projects of a late whimsical Book, "The Rights of the Christian Church" [by Matthew Tindal, 1706], are fairly stated and answered. Written by a Layman (1709, 1710 and 1711), in 3 vols.
• Vindication of the Bishop of Exeter, occasioned by Mr. Benjamin Hoadly's Reflections on his Lordship's two Sermons of Government (1709)
• Annotations on the “Tatler,” written in French by Monsieur Bournelle, and translated into English by Walter Wagstaff (1710), 2 pts.
• Essay on Private Judgment in Religious Matters (1711), anon.
• Reasons for restoring the Whigs (1711), anon.
• State Tracts (1714).
• Works of late Edmund Smith. With his Character by Mr. Oldisworth (1714)
• State and Miscellany Poems (1715)
• Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole, that Merry Old Soul (1732), anon.

Translationos

• The Iliad of Homer, a prose translation, with notes (1712), in 5 vols. Oldisworth translated books 16 to end; his co- translators were John Ozell and William Broome
• The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Sæculare of Horace, in Latin and English. With a translation of Dr. Bentley's Notes. To which are added Notes upon Notes, done in the Bentleian stile and manner (1712–13), in 3 vols.
• Callipædia; or the Art of getting pretty children (1729), by Claudius Quilletus
• The Accomplished Senator (1733), by Laurence Grimald Gozliski

Works about Oldisworth

• "Oldisworth, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.