PITT, CHRISTOPHER, an eminent English poet, celebrated for his excellent translation of Virgil's Aeneid, was born in the year 1699. Having studied four years at New-college, Oxford, he was presented to the living of Pimperne in Dorsetshire, which he held during the remainder of his life. He had so poetical a turn, that while he was a school-boy he wrote two large folios of manuscript poems, one of which contained an ex-
tire translation of Lucan. He was much esteemed while at the university; particularly by the celebrated Dr Young, who used familiarly to call him his son. Next to his fine translation of Virgil, Mr Pitt gained the greatest reputation by his excellent English translation of Vida's Art of Poetry. This amiable poet died in the year 1748, without leaving, it is said, one enemy behind him.