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:

• JOHN HENLEY (1692-1759)
• HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849-1903)

HENLEY (1692-1759)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English clergyman, commonly known as `; Orator See also:

• HENLEY, JOHN (1692-1759)
• HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849-1903)

Henley," was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 3rd of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1692 at Melton-See also:

• MOWBRAY
• MOWBRAY, HARRY SIDDONS (1858– )
• MOWBRAY, ROBERT (d. 1125)

Mowbray, where his See also:

• FATHER

father was See also:

• VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vicar . After attending the See also:

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

grammar See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools of Melton and See also:

• OAKHAM

Oakham, he entered St 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's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

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

Cambridge, and while still an under-See also:

• GRADUATE (Med. Lat. graduale, to admit to an academical degree, gradus)

graduate he addressed in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1712, under the See also:

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

pseudonym of See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter de Quir, a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter, to the Spectator displaying no small wit and See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour . After graduating B.A., he became assistant and then headmaster of the grammar school of his native See also:

• TOWN

town, uniting to these duties those of assistant See also:

• CURATE (from the Lat. curare, to take care of)

curate . His abundant See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy found still further expression in a poem entitled See also:

• ESTHER

Esther, See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen of See also:

• PERSIA

Persia (1714), and in the compilation of a grammar of ten See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages entitled The See also:

• COMPLETE

Complete Linguist (2 vols., See also:

• LONDON

London, 1719-1721) . He then decided to go to London, where he obtained the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of assistant preacher in the chapels of See also:

• ORMOND

Ormond See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street and Bloomsbury . In 1723 he was presented to the rectory of Chelmondiston in See also:

• SUFFOLK
• SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF (c. 1484–'545)
• SUFFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SUFFOLK, THOMAS HOWARD, 1ST EARL OF (1561-1626)
• SUFFOLK, WILLIAM DE LA POLE

Suffolk; but See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence being insisted on, he resigned both his appointments, and on the 3rd of See also:

• JULY

July 1726 opened what he called an See also:

• ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

oratory " in See also:

• NEWPORT

Newport See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

Market, which he licensed under the See also:

• TOLERATION (from Lat. tolerare, to endure)

Toleration See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act . In 1729 he transferred the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of his operations to See also:

• LINCOLN
• LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)
• LINCOLN, EARLS OF

Lincoln's In See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

Fields . Into his services he introduced many See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar alterations: he See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew up a " See also:

• PRIMITIVE

Primitive See also:

• LITURGY (Low Lat. liturgia; Gr. X€Zros, public, and Epyov, work; )Aetrovpy6s, a public servant)

Liturgy," in which he substituted for the Nicene and Athanasian See also:

• CREEDS (Lat. credo, I believe), or CONFESSIONS OF FAITH

creeds two creeds taken from the See also:

• APOSTOLICAL

Apostolical Constitutions; for his " Primitive See also:

• EUCHARIST (Gr. evXapurria, thanksgiving)

Eucharist " he made use of unleavened See also:

• BREAD

bread and mixed See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine; he distributed at the See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price of one See also:

• SHILLING

shilling medals of See also:

• ADMISSION

admission to his oratory, with the See also:

• DEVICE

device of a See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun rising to the See also:

• MERIDIAN
• MERIDIAN (from the Lat. meridianus, pertaining to the south or mid-day)

meridian, with the See also:

• MOTTO (an Italian word, from Late Lat. muttum, a low sound, a mutter or murmur, cf. mutere, to mutter; the Latin word also gives Fr. mot, word)

motto Ad summa, and the words Inveniam viam See also:

• AUT

aut faciam below . But the most See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element in the services was Henley himself, who is described by See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope in the Dunciad as " Preacher at once and See also:

• ZANY

zany of his See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age." He possessed some oratorical ability and adopted a very theatrical See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of elocution, " tuning his See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice and balancing his hands "; and his addresses were a See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange medley of solemnity and buffoonery, of See also:

• CLEVER

clever wit and the wildest absurdity, of able and original disquisition and the worst artifices of the oratorical See also:

• CHARLATAN (Ital. ciarlatano, from ciarlare, to chatter)

charlatan . His services were much frequented by the " See also:

• FREE

free-thinkers," and he himself expressed his determination " to See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die a rational." Besides his See also:

• SUNDAY

Sunday sermons, he delivered Wednesday lectures on social and See also:

• POLITICAL

political subjects; and he also projected a See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme for connecting with the " oratory " a university on quite a utopian See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan . For some 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 he edited the Hyp See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

Doctor, a weekly See also:

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

paper established in opposition to the Crafts-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, and for this service he enjoyed a See also:

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

pension of £See also:

• LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

loo a See also:

• YEAR

year from See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole . At first the orations of Henley drew See also:

• GREAT

great crowds, but, although he never discontinued his services, .his See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience latterly dwindled almost entirely away .

He died on the 13th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1759 . Henley is the subject of several of See also:

• HOGARTH, WILLIAM (1697–1764)

Hogarth's prints . His See also:

• LIFE

life, professedly written by A . Welstede, but in all See also:

• PROBABILITY (Lat. probabilis, probable or credible)

probability by himself, was inserted by him in his Oratory Transactions . See J . B . See also:

• NICHOLS, JOHN (1745–1826)

Nichols, See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• LEICESTERSHIRE

Leicestershire; I . Disraeli, Calamities of Authors.visited his contributor in See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital and took Robert See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis Steven-son, another recruit of the Cornhill, with him . The See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting between See also:

• STEVENSON, ADLA1 EWING (1835- )
• STEVENSON, ROBERT (1772-1850)
• STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894)

Stevenson and Henley, and the friendship of which it was the beginning, See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form one of the best-known episodes in See also:

• RECENT

recent literature (see especially Stevenson's letter to Mrs Sitwell, See also:

• JAN

Jan . 1875, and Henley's poems " An Apparition " and " See also:

• ENVOY (Fr. envoye, " sent ")

Envoy to See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

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

Baxter ") . In 1877 Henley went to London and began his editorial career by editing London, a See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal of a type more usual in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris than London, written for the See also:

• SAKE

sake of its contributors rather than of the public . Among other distinctions it first gave to the See also:

• WORLD

world The New Arabian Nights of Stevenson .

Henley himself contributed to his journal a See also:

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

series of verses chiefly in old See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French forms . He had been See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing See also:

• POETRY

poetry since 1872, but (so he told the world in his " See also:

• ADVERTISEMENT, or ADVERTISING (Fr. avertissement, warning, or notice)

advertisement " to his collected Poems, 1898) he " found himself about 1877 so utterly unmarketable that he had to own himself beaten in See also:

• ART

art and to addict himself to journalism for the next ten years." After the decease of London, he edited the See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine of Art from 1882 to •1886 . At the end of that See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period he came before the public as a poet . In 1887 Mr Gleeson See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White made for the popular series of See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury Poets (edited by Mr 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:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

Sharp) a selection of poems in old French forms . In his selection Mr Gleeson White included a considerable number of pieces from London, and only after he had completed the selection did he discover that the verses were all by one See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, that of Henley . In the following year, Mr H . B . See also:

• DONKIN, SIR RUFANE SHAW (1773-1841)

Donkin in his See also:

• VOLUME

volume Voluntaries, done for an See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East End hospital, included Henley's unrhymed rhythms quintessentializing the poet's memories of the old See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh Infirmary . Mr See also:

• ALFRED

Alfred Nutt read these, and asked for more; and in 1888 his See also:

• FIRM

firm published A See also:

• BOOK

Book of 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 . Henley was by this time well known in a restricted See also:

• LITERARY

literary circle, and See also:

• TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin publication of this volume determined for them his fame as a poet, which rapidly outgrew these limits, two new See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of this volume being called for within three years . In this same year (1888) Mr See also:

• FITZROY
• FITZROY, ROBERT (1805-1865)

Fitzroy See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

Bell started the Scots Observer in Edinburgh, with Henley as literary editor, and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in 1889 Mr Bell See also:

• LEFT

left the conduct of the paper to him . It was a weekly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

review somewhat on the lines of the old Saturday Review, but inspired in every See also:

• PARAGRAPH

paragraph by the vigorous and combative See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality of the editor .

It was transferred soon after to London as the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Observer, and remained under Henley's editorship until 1893 . Though, as Henley confessed, the paper had almost as many writers as readers, and its fame was mainly confined to the literary class, it was a lively and not uninfluential feature of the literary life of its time . Henley had the editor's great See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of discerning promise, and the " Men of the Scots Observer," as Henley affectionately and characteristically called his See also:

• BAND

band of contributors, in most instances justified his insight . The paper found utterance for the growing imperialism of its See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, and among other services to literature gave to the world Mr See also:

• KIPLING, RUDYARD (1865— )

Kipling's Barrack-See also:

• ROOM

Room See also:

• BALLADS

Ballads . In 1890 Henley published Views and Reviews, a volume of notable criticisms, described by himself as "less a book than a mosiac of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism." The criticisms, covering a wide range of authors (except See also:

• HEINE, HEINRICH, (1797-1856)

Heine and See also:

• TOLSTOY, LEO (1828-1910)
• TOLSTOY, PETR ANDREEVICH, COUNT (1645–1729)

Tolstoy, all English and French), though wilful and often one-sided were terse, trenchant and picturesque, and remarkable for insight and gusto . In 1892 he published a second volume of poetry, named after the first poem, The See also:

• SONG

Song of the See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

Sword, but on the issue of the second edition (1893) re-christened London Voluntaries after another See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section . Stevenson wrote that he had not received the same thrill of poetry since Mr See also:

• MEREDITH, GEORGE (1828-1908)

Meredith's- " Joy of See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

Earth " and " Love in the Valley," and he did not know that that was so intimate and so deep . " I did not guess you were so great a magician . These are new tunes; this is an undertone of the true See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo . These are not verse; they are poetry." In 1892 Henley published also three plays written with Stevenson—Beau See also:

• AUSTIN
• AUSTIN, ALFRED
• AUSTIN, JOHN (179o-1859)
• AUSTIN, SARAH (1793-1867)
• AUSTIN, STEPHEN FULLER (1793-1836)

Austin, See also:

• DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

Deacon See also:

• BRODIE, PETER BELLINGER (1815–1897)
• BRODIE, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS

Brodie and See also:

• ADMIRAL

Admiral See also:

• GUINEA

Guinea . In 1895 followed See also:

• MACAIRE

Macaire, afterwards published in a volume with the other plays . Deacon Brodie was produced in Edinburgh in 1884 and later in London .