During the 1730s, he wrote many songs for other writers' ballad operas, masques, and pantomines, which helped support his family financially. He published several compilations of his songs, which owned him the title "Ballad-Maker." His own original plays, usually comedies, satires, and farces (most notably The Honest Yorkshire-Man), enjoyed widespread popularity, yet the restrictions of the 1737 Licensing Act hindered Carey's theatrical career. Carey claims to have lost nearly 300.L per Annum due to piracies of his works.
Byrom supported himself by creating and promoting a widely-used system of shorthand. In 1742, an act of parliament gave him the sole rights to the system for twenty-one years. He wrote many poems, ranging from humerous to serious, and many exemplifying his religious zeal. In praise of Byrom, John Wesley, among others, compared his sharp, pithy wit to Swift's.
Throughout his life, Budgell was embroiled in a number of costly, complicated legal problems, including a financial scandal regarding Matthew Tindal's will. He also claimed to have been targeted by Sir Robert Walpole, to whom he attributed his troubles and whom he satirized in some of his poetic and prose works. Pope attacked Budgell, a Whig, for his dependence on Addison, paranoia, and legal issues in The Dunciad as well as other poems. These issues presumably contributed to Budgell's eventual suicide, which he justified on the basis of Addison's Cato.
Buckeridge's most influential piece was a patriotic prose treatise on British artists. He also translated a novel by Cervantes. While employed by John Sheffield in the early 1700s, he wrote four poems that were received well and included in some later compilations.
A pious Christian, Buchanan was a Gaelic poet who wrote widely on religious matters. Though the DNB mentions numerous individual poems, only one is recorded in the ESTC. He was heavily influenced by Isaac Watts, Edward Young, and Robert Blair.
Broxholme was a physician and member of the Royal Society, delivering the Harveian oration in 1731. He published one poem, "A letter from a lady to her husband abroad," but the DNB claims that he was also an accomplished Latin poet. He committed suicide, leaving generous sums to the king's scholars in Westminster and to Christ Church.
Moses Browne was a clergyman and "a deservedly popular minor poet" (DNB). In 1736, GM awarded him a prize of ?50 for the best poem on a theological subject. He had a few patrons, and dedicated many of his poems to prominent Whigs, presumably in the (futile) hopes of receiving financial assistance. Despite his literary reputation and pleas for patronage, Browne was forced to earn a living as a pen-cutter. Desperate, he got a job as a door-keeper before his publication Sunday Thoughts, appealing to the growing evangelical movement, successfully solved his financial woes.
Isaac Hawkins Browne was a poet known for his popular parodies of Ambrose Philips, Thomson, Young, Pope, Cibber, and Swift. His principal work was a Latin poem in two books- De animi immortalitate -, which received wide critical acclaim. SJ praised his lively personality and wit.
A clergyman, Brown was an author and moralist who often wrote on religion, politics, education, and aesthetics. Many of his writings provoked backlash and controversy. He published two moderately successful plays, his involvement in which apparently led to neglect of his clerical duties.