See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM See also:

• BARNES, ALBERT (1798–1870)
• BARNES, BARNABE (1569 ?–16o9)
• BARNES, JOSHUA (1654-1712)
• BARNES, ROBERT (1495-1540)
• BARNES, SIR EDWARD (1776-1838)
• BARNES, THOMAS (1785-1841)
• BARNES, W
• WILLIAM BARNES (1800-1886)

BARNES (1800-1886)  , the See also:

• DORSETSHIRE (DORSET)

Dorsetshire poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 22nd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 'Soo, at Rushay, near Pentridge in See also:

• DORSET, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF

Dorset, the son of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• BARNES, ALBERT (1798–1870)
• BARNES, BARNABE (1569 ?–16o9)
• BARNES, JOSHUA (1654-1712)
• BARNES, ROBERT (1495-1540)
• BARNES, SIR EDWARD (1776-1838)
• BARNES, THOMAS (1785-1841)
• BARNES, W
• BARNES, WILLIAM (1800-1886)

Barnes and See also:

• GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
• GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )

Grace See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott, of the See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

farmer class . He was a delicate See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, in See also:

• DIRECT

direct contrast to a strong See also:

• RACE

race of forebears, and inherited from his See also:

• MOTHER

mother a refined, retiring disposition and a love for books . He went to school at Sturminster See also:

• NEWTON
• NEWTON, ALFRED (1829–1907)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1725-1807)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1823-1895)
• NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (1816-1894)
• NEWTON, SIR ISAAC (1642-1727)

Newton, where he was considered the See also:

• CLEVER

clever boy of the school; and when a See also:

• SOLICITOR

solicitor named Dashwood applied to the See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master for a See also:

• QUICK

quick-witted boy to join him as See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, Barnes was selected for the See also:

• POST

post . He worked with the See also:

• VILLAGE

village See also:

• PARSON

parson in his spare See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours at See also:

• CLASSICS

classics and studied See also:

• MUSIC

music under the organist . In 1818 he See also:

• LEFT

left Sturminster for the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of one Coombs at See also:

• DORCHESTER
• DORCHESTER, DUDLEY CARLETON, VISCOUNT (1573-1632)
• DORCHESTER, GUY CARLETON

Dorchester, where he continued his evening See also:

• EDUCATION

education with another kindly See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man . He also made See also:

• GREAT

great progress in the See also:

• ART

art of See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood-See also:

• ENGRAVING

engraving, and with the See also:

• MONEY

money he received for a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of blocks for a See also:

• WORK

work called Walks about Dorchester, he printed and published his first See also:

• BOOK

book, Orra, a See also:

• LAPLAND, or LAPPLAND

Lapland See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

Tale, in 1822 . In the same See also:

• YEAR

year he became engaged to Julia See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

Miles, the daughter of an See also:

• EXCISE (derived through the Dutch, excijs or accijs, possibly from Late Lat. accensare,—ad, to, and census, tax; the word owes something to a confusion with excisum, cut out)

excise officer . In 1823 he took a school at See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

Mere in See also:

• WILTSHIRE [WILTS]

Wiltshire, and four years later married and settled in See also:

• CHANTRY (Fr. chanterie, from chanter, to sing; Med. Lat. cantuaria)

Chantry See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House, a See also:

• FINE

fine old Tudor See also:

• MANSION (through O. Fr. mansion, mod. maison, from Lat. mansio, dwelling-place, stage on a journey; manere, to remain)

mansion in that See also:

• TOWN

town . The school See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew in See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers, and Barnes occupied all his spare See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in assiduous study, See also:

• READING

reading during these years authors so diverse in See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character as See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus, See also:

• SALLUST [Gams SALLUSTIUS CRlspus] (86–34 B.c.)

Sallust, See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, See also:

• PETRARCH (1304-1374)

Petrarch, See also:

• BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE (1707-1788)

Buffon and See also:

• BURNS, JOHN (1858– )
• BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796)
• BURNS, SIR GEORGE

Burns . He also began to write See also:

• POETRY

poetry, and printed many of his verses in the Dorset See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

County See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief studies, however, were philological; and in 1829 he published An Etymological Glossary of See also:

• ENGLISH

English Words of See also:

• FOREIGN

Foreign Derivation . In 1832 a strolling See also:

• COMPANY

company of actors visited Mere, and Barnes wrote a See also:

• FARCE

farce, The Honest Thief, which they produced; and a See also:

• COMEDY

comedy which was played at Wincanton .

Barnes also wrote a number of educational books, such as Elements of See also:

• PERSPECTIVE (Lat. peespicere, to see through)

Perspective, Outlines of See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

Geography, and in 1833 first began his poems in the Dorsetshire See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect, among them the two eclogues " The 'Lotments and " A See also:

• BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

Bit o'Sly Coorten," in the pages of the See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper . In 1835 he left Mere, and returned to Dorchester, where he started another school, removing in 1837 into larger quarters . In 1844 he published Poems of Rural See also:

• LIFE

Life in the Dorset Dialect . Three years later Barnes took See also:

• HOLY

holy orders, and was appointed to the cure of Whitcombe, 3 m. from Dorchester . He had been for some years upon the books of St John's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, and took the degree of B.D. in 185o . He resigned Whitcombe in 1852, finding the work too hard in connexion with his mastership; and in See also:

• JUNE

June of that year he sustained a severe bereavement by the See also:

• DEATH

death of his wife . Continuing his studies in the See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science of See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, he published his Philological See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

Grammar in 1854, See also:

• DRAWING

drawing examples. from more than sixty See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . For the See also:

• COPYRIGHT

copyright of this erudite work he received £5 . The second series of dialect poems, Hwomely Rhymes, appeared in 1859 (2nd ed . 1863) . Hwomely Rhymes contained some of his best-known pieces, and in the year of its publication he first began to give readings from his See also:

• WORKS

works . As their reputation grew he travelled all over the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, delighting large audiences with his See also:

• QUAINT (O. Fr. cointe, from Lat. cognitus, known, probably influenced by association with Lat. corn plus, neat)

quaint See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour and natural pathos .

In 1861 he was awarded a See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension of £70 a year, and in the next year published Tiw, the most striking of his philological studies, in which the See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic roots in the English language are discussed . Barnes had a horror of Latin forms in English, and would have substituted English compounds for many Latin forms in See also:

• COMMON

common use . In 1862 he See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke up his school, and removed to the rectory of Winterborne Came, to which he was presented by his old friend, See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

• SEYMOUR
• SEYMOUR, HORATIO (1810-1886)
• SEYMOUR, or ST MAUR
• SEYMOUR, THOMAS

Seymour See also:

• DAWSON, GEORGE (1821-1876)
• DAWSON, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (1820-1899)

Dawson Darner . Here he worked continuously at See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse and See also:

• PROSE

prose, contributing largely to the magazines . A new series of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect appeared in 1862, and he was persuaded in 1868 to publish a series of Poems of Rural Life in Common English, which was less successful than his dialect poems . These latter were collected into a single See also:

• VOLUME

volume in 1879, and on the 7th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1886 Barnes died at Winterborne Came . His poetry is essentially English in character; no other writer has given quite so See also:

• SIMPLE

simple and sincere a picture of the homely life and labour of rural See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . His work is full of humour and the clean, manly joy of life; and its rusticity is singularly allied to a See also:

• LITERARY

literary sense and to high technical finish . He is indeed the Victorian See also:

• THEOCRITUS

Theocritus; and, as English country life is slowly swept away before the advance of the railway and the See also:

• TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tike, far, and rypaq5eiv, to write)

telegraph, he will be more and more read for his warm-hearted and fragrant See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of rustic love and piety . His See also:

• ORIGINAL

original and suggestive books on the English language, which are valuable in spite of their eccentricities, include:—Se Gefylsta: an Anglo-Saxon Delectus (1849); A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect (1864); An Outline of English Speech-See also:

• CRAFT (a word common to Teutonic languages for strength, or power; cf. Ger. Kraft)

Craft (1878); and A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect (Dorchester, 1886) . See The Life of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William Barnes, Poet and Philologist (1887), by his daughter, See also:

• LUCY, RICHARD DE (d. 1179)

Lucy E . See also:

• BAXTER, ANDREW (1686-1750)
• BAXTER, RICHARD (1615-1691)
• BAXTER, ROBERT DUDLEY (1827-1875)
• BAXTER, WILLIAM (1650-1723)

Baxter, who is known as a writer on art by the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

Leader Scott; and a See also:

• NOTICE

notice by See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• HARDY, ALEXANDRE (1569?-1631)
• HARDY, SIR THOMAS DUFFUS (1804-1878)
• HARDY, SIR THOMAS MASTERMAN
• HARDY, THOMAS (1840- )

Hardy in the See also:

• ATHENAEUM

Athenaeum (16th of October 1886) .