HALL (John), a poet of distinguished learning, was born at Durham, and educated at Cambridge, where he was esteemed the brightest genius in that university. In 1646, when he was but 19 years of age, he published his Hore Vacive, or Essays; and the same year came out his poems. He translated from the Greek "Hierocles upon the golden verses of Pythagoras;" before which is an account of the ingenious translator and his works, by John Davies of Kidwelly. He died in 1656, aged 29.