Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet in 1702. The relationship with Ann Ayscough lasted to the end of Sedley's life. His reputation as a wit and dissolute was partially responsible for the Sedleys of William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair". His most famous song, "Phyllis is My Only Joy", is much more widely known now than the author's name. While Sedley chiefly produced light amatory verse and pastoral dialogues in the 1670s, he turned to satirical epigrams in the 1680s and 1690s. His "Epigrams: or, Court Characters" are modelled on the works of Martial. In his epigram "To Nysus", for example, Sedley describes the function of satire
Jimmy the Hand (novel) in the world of Midkemia. It was first released by Harper Collins on July 7, 2003 in the United Kingdom. It was released in the United States in August 2008. The book constitutes a kind of prequel to the earlier-published "The Riftwar Saga", in which (among many other plotlines) the later life of Jimmy is depicted. Jimmy the Hand (novel) Jimmy the Hand is a fantasy novel by American writers Raymond E. Feist and S. M. Stirling. The third and final book in "Legends of the Riftwar" series, it details the story of Jimmy, a 13- to 16-year-old thief, who