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liflied In 1656, under the title of “ Caroli Ogerii Ephe- 
merides, five Iter Danicum, Suecicum, PoJonicuiu, cum 
effetin Comitatu illuftr. Claudii Memmii,comitis Avauxii, 
ad fept.entriones Reges extraordiparii legati,” izmo. 
This journal contains many curious particulars of the- 
manner's and ci:Homs, the eminent characters, See. of the 
countries vifited by tiie author, and likewife of the ne¬ 
gotiations of the count d’Avaux. It is interfperfed with 
Latin verfes, and mention is made of the writer’s French 
verfes. He publifhed feparately two Latin poems to the 
memory of D. Petau and Peter du Puy. Ogier died in 
1654. 
Francis Ogier, brother of the preceding, was an ec- 
clefiaftie, and attended the count d’Avaux when he went 
to fign the peace of 1648. He took the part of Balzac in 
liis quarrel with Goulu ; and wrote poems, fermons, and 
a variety of other works, of which one of the mod ef- 
teemed was his “Jugement et Cenfure de la Doctrine 
Curieufe de Fr. Garaffe.” He died 1670. 
O'GILBY (John), a writer who has fome claim to 
commemoration from the mala and variety of his works, 
and the fhare he had in introducing typographical fplen- 
dour into this country, was born in 1700 at or near Edin¬ 
burgh. Flis father, who was a branch of the ancient fa¬ 
mily of Ogilby or Ogilvie, became a prifo.ner for debt in 
the King’s Bench, and was unable to give his fon more 
education than a little knowledge of the Latin grammar. 
He therefore put himfelf apprentice to a dancing-mailer 
in London ; and was afterwards employed in the family of 
the earl of Strafford, who appointed him deputy-mailer of 
the revels at Dublin, where Ogilby erefted a theatre. To 
his honour it is mentioned, that with the firffc money 
which he earned he freed his parent from prifon ; an aft 
of filial piety deferving of the higheft commendation. By 
a fevere llrain in themufcles of his leg, he was obliged to 
procure fome other means for obtaining a livelihood. “ It 
is not w'orth while,” fays his biographer, “ to purfue the 
various fortunes of his life, through which he difplayed 
extraordinary indudry, a projefting head, with a talent of 
obtaining patronage in the execution of his projefts, and 
a fpirit not to be deprefled by misfortunes and reverfes.” 
He overcame his want of a literary education fo far as to 
be able to tranflate from the Latin, and even the Greek, 
and to compofe a great quantity of verfes, fuch as they 
were. His merits as an author are dated with much fim- 
plicity by Windanly, in his Lives of the Poets : “ John 
Ogilby was one who, from a late initiation into literature, 
made fuch a progrefs as might well dyle him the prodigy 
of his time ! fending into the world fo many large volumes! 
his tranllations of Homer and Virgil done to the life, and 
with fuch excellentJculptures; and (what added great grace 
to his works) he printed them all on fpecial good paper, and 
in a very good letter.'" 
The chief merit of his Homer confids in a commend¬ 
able and uniform fidelity to the fenfe of his author. - As 
a poet, his pretenfions to praife of any kind can fcarcely 
be fupported : he has neither animation of thought, ac¬ 
curacy of fade, fenfibility of feeling, nor ornament of 
diftion. Yet Pope will be found to have confulted his 
verfion with unremitting deadinefs, and to have profited 
by his rhymes in more indances than would be previoudy 
iuppofed. The fimilar drufture of his verfification may 
be reafonably deemed a,principal caufe of fuch particular 
attention from Pope, who reflefts upon this trandator, by 
condefcending to borrow from him, an honour, which his 
own folitary edorts w'ould never have procured ; and has 
thus fecured, perhaps, the future exidenceof a verdon,jud 
finking into the gulf of perpetual oblivion. The cuts to his 
trandation of Virgil were highly valued, and ferved for a 
fplendid Latin edition of that poet. Ogilby publidied a 
magnideent edition of the Bible with plates, for which he 
was remunerated by the houfe of lords. In 1661 he was 
appointed to conduct the ceremonies at the king’s coro¬ 
nation, of which he publidied a pompous account in folio, 
with plates. He had the misfortune to lofe his whole pro¬ 
perty in the great fire of London} after which, he obtained 
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the appointment of his majedy’s cofmographer and geo¬ 
graphic printer, in which capacity he printed fome volumes 
of his Great Atlas. He alfo publidied An Account of 
Japan ; and An Account of the Great and Crofs Roads 
of the Kingdom, from his own aftual furvey and men- 
fuiation by the wheel, which was for a confiderable time 
a dandard work, and paffed through many editions. He 
died in 1676, leaving the character of an honed and ufe- 
fully-indudrious man. Gen. Biog. Wakefield's edit, of 
Pope's Homer. 
To O'GLE, v. a. [oogh , Dut. an eye.] To view w'ith 
dde-glances, as in fondnefs ; or, with a dedgn not to be 
heeded.—Whom is he ogling yonder? himfelf in his look- 
ing-glafs. Arhuthnot. 
From their high fcad’old, with a trumpet cheek, 
And ogling all their audience, then they fpeak. Drydcn. 
O'GLE, f. A dde-glance.—I teach the church ogle in 
the'morning, and the playhoufe ogle by candle-light. I 
have alfo brought over with me a new dying ogle, fit for 
the ring. Addifon. 
O'GLER, f. A dy gazer; one who views with fide- 
glances.-^Upon the difufe of the neck-piece, the tribe of 
oglers dared the fair fex in the neck rather than in the 
face. Addifon. —Jack was a prodigious ogier; he w’ould 
ogle you the outlide of his eye inward, and the white up¬ 
ward. Arhuthnot. 
O'GLETHORPE, a county of the date of Georgia, 
with 9780 inhabitants, including 3089 daves. 
OGLIAS'TRO, a town of the ifland of Sicily, in the 
Valley of Mazara: nine miles fouth-fouth-ead of Palermo. 
O'GLING.y.' Praftice of viewing with dde-glances.— 
If the female tongue will be in motion, why diould it not 
be fet to go right ! Could they talk of the diderent af- 
pefts and conjunftions of planets, they need not be at the 
pains to comment upon oglings and.clandedine marriages. 
Addifon. —The fpeech from the throne, in the opening of 
the fedion in 1795, threw out oglings and glances of ten- 
dernefs. Burke on a Regicide Peace. 
O'GLIO, J’. [from olla, Span.] A difh made by ming¬ 
ling diderent kinds of meat; a medley ; a hotchpotch.— 
He that keeps an open houfe, fhould condder that there 
are ogiios of gueds, as well as of didies; and that the li¬ 
berty of a common table is as good as a tacit invitation to 
all forts of intruders. L'EJlrauge. 
O'GLIO, a river of Italy, which rifes in the bidiopric 
of Trent; pafles by Breno, Palazzuolo, Orci Nuovo, 
Udiana, Caneto, &c. and joins the Po at Borgo Forte. 
OGLO'SA, an idand in the Tyrrhene Sea, ead of Cor- 
dca, famous for wine 5 and now called Monte Chrifio. 
Pliny. 
OG'MIUS, a name of Hercules among the Gauls. 
OG'MO, a town of Lower Siam, on the ead fide of the 
gulf. Lat. 13.43. N. Ion. 101.48. E. 
OG'MORE, a river of South-Wales,'which rifes on the 
borders of Brecknockdiire, and runs into the Severn four 
miles fouth-wed of Bridgend in Glamorganfhire. 
OG'MU, a town on the wed coad of the ifland of Leyta. 
Lat. 10. 55. N. Ion. 124. 30. E. 
OGNA'TA, a town of Spain, in Guipufcoa: three 
miles fouth-wed of Segura, and twenty fouth-wed of St. 
Sebadian. 
OG'NERSH, a village in Surrey, three miles ead of 
Godaiming. It had once a confiderable manufaftory of 
woollen cloth, chiefly blue, for the Canary-iflands. Here 
are fairs June 11 and Oftober 18 ; the latter for cattle was 
granted by king Charles II. and is kept at Shamley, a 
hamlet in this little parifli. 
O'GNI, five fmall iflands in the Grecian Archipelago, 
between the Ifland of Scio and the coad of Natolia. Lat. 
38. 33. N. Ion. 26. 14! E. 
O'GNY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mofelle : five miles north-ead of Gorze, and three fouth 
of Metz. 
OGO'A, a deity worfhipped by the Carians, efpecially 
in the city of Mylaflus. We learn from Paufanias, that 
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