Vida et Sannazar, eminent modern Latin poets of the early sixteenth
century
Villars, Louis, Duc de, French marshal, defeated at Ramillies and
Malplaquet (d. 1734),
Vinegar Bible, published at Oxford in; 1717; in it the headline of Luke
xx. reads “vinegar,” an error for “vineyard,”
Vision of Theodore, set Johnson’s Miscellaneous Works (for the
“Genealogy of Wit,” see “Special”, NO. 35; for the “Contest between Rest
and Labour,” Rambler, No. 33)
Vitruvius, contemporary with Julius Caesar and author of a famous work
on Architecture
Vossius, Gerard, Dutch philologist and friend of Grotius; the historian
of Pelagianism (1577-1649)
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester, friend of Pope, and author
of the Divine Legation of Moses and other theological and legal works
(1698-1779)
Wild, Jonathan, a detective who turned villain and was executed for
burglary in 1725; the hero of one of Fielding’s stories
Williams, Archbishop of York (and opponent of Laud) in the time of
Charles I.; Vernon, Archbishop of York, 1807. The tenure of the See of
York seems to be the only parallel
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, Ambassador to Berlin (1746-49). His
satires against Walpole’s opponents are easy and humorous (d. 1759)