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Thomas James Mathias
Thomas James Mathias (1754? - 1835) was a British satirist.
Mathias was educated at the University of Cambridge, and held some minor appointments in the royal household. He was an accomplished Italian scholar, and made various translations from the English into Italian, and vice versa. He also produced a fine edition of the work of Thomas Gray, on which he lost heavily. His chief work was The Pursuits of Literature (1794), an undiscriminating satire on his literary contemporaries which went through 16 editions, but is now almost forgotten.
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