Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Henry Carey
Born: August 27, 1687
Died: October 5, 1743 (aged 56)
Bio: Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death.