John Carey LL.D. (1756–1826) was an Irish classical scholar.
Life
He was a brother of
Mathew Carey
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and
William Paulet Carey. At the age of 12 he was sent to finish his education in a French university. He spent some time in the United States about 1789, and then spent passed many years in London as a teacher of the classics, French, and shorthand. He died at Prospect Place,
Lambeth
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, after a period of illness, on 8 December 1826, from a
bladder stone
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.
Works
Carey was editor of the early numbers of the ''School Magazine'', published by
Richard Phillips, and a contributor to the ''
Monthly Magazine
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Gentleman's Magazine
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''. He brought out:
* a new edition of
John Dryden
John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate.
He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration (En ...
's ''Virgil'' in 1803, and again in 1819;
* two editions of
Robert Ainsworth's ''Latin Dictionary'', and five of its abridgment;
* the ''Gradus ad Parnassum'' in 1824;
* the Latin ''Common Prayer'' in
Samuel Bagster's polyglot edition;
* ''Ruperti Commentarius in Livium''; and
* a revision of
Johann Friedrich Schleusner's ''New Testament Lexicon'' (1826).
Carey edited over fifty volumes of the ''Regent Latin Classics'' published by Baldwin. He was the compiler of the ''General Index to the Monthly Review from 1790 to 1816'' (2 vols. 1818), and translated
Paul Jérémie Bitaubé
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's ''Young Emigrants'', Lehman's ''Letters on Switzerland'', and others. In 1810 he published a story for children called ''Learning better than House and Land'', which went through several editions. His school-books were popular in their day and generally praised for accuracy and scholarly qualities. Among them are:
* ''Latin Prosody made Easy'', 1800; new edition 1812.
* ''Practical English Prosody and Versification'', 1809.
* ''Alphabetic Key to the Propria quæ maribus'', 1812.
* ''Introduction to English Composition and Elocution'', 1817.
* ''Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana'', 1818.
* ''Eton Latin Prosody illustrated'', 1818.
* ''Greek Terminations'', 1821.
* ''Latin Terminations'', 1821. He published also a small volume of poems, with a portrait prefixed.
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1756 births
1826 deaths
Irish classical scholars
Irish translators
Irish educators