See also:

• WALTER, HUBERT (d. 1205)
• WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)

WALTER See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

SAVAGE See also:

• WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864)

LANDOR (1775-1864)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English writer, In 1835 he had an unfortunate difference with his wife which eldest son of See also:

• WALTER, HUBERT (d. 1205)
• WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)

Walter See also:

• LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864)

Landor and his wife See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

Savage, was ended in a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete separation . In 1824 appeared the first See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• WARWICK
• WARWICK, EARLS OF
• WARWICK, RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF (1382—1439)
• WARWICK, RICHARD NEVILLE, EARL OF (1428—1471)
• WARWICK, SIR PHILIP (1609-1683)
• WARWICK, SIR ROBERT RICH, 2ND EARL OF (1587–1658)

Warwick on the 3oth of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1775 . [He was sent to See also:

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

series of his Imaginary Conversations, in 1826 " the second See also:

• RUGBY

Rugby school, but was removed at the headmaster's See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request edition, corrected and enlarged "; a supplementary third See also:

• VOLUME

volume and studied privately with Mr See also:

• LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)

Langley, See also:

• VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vicar of See also:

• ASHBOURNE

Ashbourne. was added in 1828; and in 1829 the second series was given to In 1793 he entered Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

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

Cambridge . He adopted the See also:

• WORLD

world . Not until 1846 was a fresh See also:

• INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to fix, arrange; the change is probably due to the influence of the verb " install ")

instalment added, in the republican principles and in 1794 fired a See also:

• GUN

gun at the windows of second volume of his collected and selected See also:

• WORKS

works . During the a Tory for whom he had an aversion . He was rusticated for a See also:

• INTERVAL

interval he had published his three other most famous and greatest See also:

• YEAR

year, and, although the authorities were willing to condone the books in See also:

• PROSE

prose: The See also:

• CITATION (Lat. citare, to cite)

Citation and Examination 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 offence, he refused to return . The affair led to a See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel with See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare (1834), See also:

• PERICLES (49o-429 B.C.)

Pericles and See also:

• ASPASIA

Aspasia (1836), The Pentameron his See also:

• FATHER

father in which Landor expressed his intention of leaving (1837) . To the last of these was originally appended The See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home for ever . He was, however, reconciled with his See also:

• FAMILY

family Pentalogia, containing five of the very finest among his shorter through the efforts of his friend Dorothea See also:

• LYTTELTON
• LYTTELTON, GEORGE LYTTELTON, 1ST BARON (17o9-1773)

Lyttelton . He entered studies in dramatic See also:

• POETRY

poetry . In 1847 he published his most no profession, but his father allowed him £15o a year, and he important Latin See also:

• WORK

work, Poemata et See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions, comprising, was See also:

• FREE

free to live at home or not as he pleased.] with large additions, the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main contents of two former volumes In 1795 appeared in a small volume, divided into three books, of idyllic, satiric, elegiac and lyric 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 in the same See also:

• GOLDEN

golden The Poems of Walter Savage Landor, and, in pamphlet See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of year of his poetic See also:

• LIFE

life appeared the very See also:

• CROWN

crown and See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower of nineteen pages, an See also:

• ANONYMOUS

anonymous Moral See also:

• EPISTLE

Epistle, respectfully its manifold labours, the Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor, dedicated to See also:

• EARL

Earl See also:

• STANHOPE, EARLS
• STANHOPE, LADY HESTER LUCY (1776-1839)

Stanhope .

No poet at the See also:

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

age of twenty ever enlarged and completed . Twelve years later this See also:

• BOOK

book was had more vigour of See also:

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

style and fluency of verse; nor perhaps has re-issued, with additions of more or less value, with alterations any ever shown such masterly command of See also:

• EPIGRAM

epigram and See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire, generally to be regretted, and with omissions invariably to be made vivid and vital by the purest See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm and most generous deplored . In 1853 he put forth The Last See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

Fruit off an Old See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

Tree, indignation . Three years later appeared the first edition of the containing fresh conversations, See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical and controversial essays, first See also:

• GREAT

great work which was to inscribe his name for ever among See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous epigrams, lyrics and occasional poems of various the great names in English poetry . The second edition of Gebir See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind and merit, closing with Five Scenes on the martyrdom appeared in 1803, with a See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text corrected of See also:

• GRAVE

grave errors and of See also:

• BEATRICE

Beatrice See also:

• CENCI, BEATRICE (1577-1599)

Cenci, unsurpassed even by their author himself improved by magnificent additions . About the same 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 the for See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble and heroic pathos, for subtle and genial, tragic and whole poem was also published in a Latin form, which for profound, ardent and compassionate insight into See also:

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

character, might and See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody of See also:

• LINE

line, for See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power and perfection of See also:

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

language, with consummate mastery of dramatic and spiritual truth. must always dispute the See also:

• PALM (Lat. palma, Gr. iraX6.jn )
• PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP (1768-1806)

palm of See also:

• PRECEDENCE (from Lat. praecedere, to go before, precede)

precedence with the English In 1856 he published Antony and Octavius—Scenes for the version . [His father's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1805 put him in See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of an Study, twelve consecutive poems in See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue which alone would See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune . Landor settled in See also:

• BATH
• BATH, THOMAS THYNNE
• BATH, WILLIAM

Bath . Here in 18o8 suffice to See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place him high among the few great masters of historic he met See also:

• SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

Southey, and the mutual appreciation of the two poets See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama . led to a warm friendship.] In 1808, under an impulse not less In 1858 appeared a metrical See also:

• MISCELLANY

miscellany bearing the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of heroic than that which was afterwards to See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead See also:

• BYRON, GEORGE GORDON BYRON, 6TH BARON (1788-1824)
• BYRON, HENRY JAMES (1834-1884)
• BYRON, HON
• BYRON, JOHN BYRON

Byron to a Dry Sticks Fagoted by W . S . Landor, and containing among glorious death in redemption of See also:

• GREECE

Greece and his own See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good fame, other things graver and lighter certain epigrammatic and satirical Landor, then aged See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-three, See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England for See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain as a attacks which reinvolved him in the troubles of an See also:

• ACTION

action for volunteer to serve in the See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army against See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon at the See also:

• LIBEL

libel; and in See also:

• JULY

July of the same year he returned for the last See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of a See also:

• REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment raised and supported at his See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole expense. six years of his life to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, which he had left for England in After some three months' campaigning came the affair of See also:

• CINTRA

Cintra 1835 .

[He was advised to make over his See also:

• PROPERTY

property to his family, and its disasters; " his See also:

• TROOP (an adaptation of Fr. troupe, O. Fr. trope; cf. Ital. troppa, troppa; Med. Lat. truppus; the origin is doubtful; suggestions have been made that it represents a German conception of Latin turba, crowd, or is an adaptation of Norw. tarp, flock)

troop," in the words of his biographer, on whom he was now dependent . They appear to have refused " dispersed or melted away, and he came back to England in as to make him an See also:

• ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance unless he returned to England . By great a See also:

• HURRY (or URRV), SIR JOHN (d. 165o)

hurry as he had left it," but bringing with him the the exertions of See also:

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

Robert See also:

• BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (z8o6-r861)
• BROWNING, OSCAR (1837- )
• BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889)

Browning an allowance was secured. See also:

• HONOURABLE (Fr. honorable, from Lat. honorabilis, worthy of honour)

honourable recollection of a brave See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design unselfishly attempted, Browning settled him first at See also:

• SIENA

Siena and then at See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence.] and the material in his memory for the sublimest poem published Embittered and distracted by domestic dissensions, if brightened in our language, between the last masterpiece of See also:

• MILTON
• MILTON, JOHN (1608–1674)

Milton and the and relieved by the See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection and veneration of See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends and first masterpiece of See also:

• SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1797-1851)
• SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE (1792-1822)

Shelley—one equally worthy to stand strangers, this final See also:

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

period of his troubled and splendid career unchallenged beside either for poetic perfection as well as moral came at last to a quiet end on the 17th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1864 . In See also:

• MAJESTY (Fr. majeste; Lat. majestas, grandeur, greatness, from the base mag-, as in magnus, great, major, greater, &c.)

majesty—the lofty tragedy of See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count See also:

• JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

Julian, which appeared in the preceding year he had published a last volume of Heroic 1812, without the name of its author . No comparable work is Idyls, with Additional Poems, English and Latin,—the better to be found in English poetry between the date of See also:

• SAMSON (1135-1211)
• SAMSON (cf. Heb. shemesh, " sun ")
• SAMSON, JOSEPH ISIDORE (1793-1871)

Samson See also:

• PART

part of them well worthy to be indeed the " last fruit " of a Agonaivtes and the date of See also:

• PROMETHEUS

Prometheus Unbound; and with both See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius which after a life of eighty-eight years had lost nothing xv1 . 6 rr of its majestic and pathetic power, its exquisite and exalted loveliness . A complete 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 of Landor's writings, published or privately printed, in English, Latin and See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian, including See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets, See also:

• FLY (formed on the root of the supposed original Tent. fleugan, to fly)

fly-sheets and occasional newspaper See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence on See also:

• POLITICAL

political or See also:

• LITERARY

literary questions, it would be difficult to give anywhere and impossible to give here . From nineteen almost to ninety his intellectual and literary activity was indefatigably incessant; but, herein at least like 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:

• LAMB (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Lamm)
• LAMB, CHARLES (1775–1834)

Lamb, whose cordial admiration he so cordially returned, he could not write a See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note of three lines which did not See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear the See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark of his " See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

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

hand " in its matchless and inimitable command of a style at once the most powerful and the purest of his age . The one See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge which can ever seriously be brought and maintained against it is that of such occasional obscurity or difficulty as may arise from excessive strictness in condensation of phrase and expurgation of See also:

• MATTER

matter not always superfluous, and sometimes almost indispensable . His English prose and his Latin verse are perhaps more frequently and more gravely liable to this charge than either his English verse or his Latin prose . At times it is well-nigh impossible for an See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye less keen and See also:

• SWIFT
• SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667—1745)

swift, a scholarship less exquisite and ready than his own, to catch the precise direction and follow the perfect course of his rapid thought and radiant utterance . This apparently studious pursuit and preference of the most terse and elliptic expression which could be found for anything he might have to say could not but occasionally make even so See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign a 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 of two great See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages appear " dark with excess of See also:

• LIGHT

light "; but from no former master of either See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue in prose or verse was ever the quality of real obscurity, of loose and nebulous incertitude, more utterly See also:

• ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

alien or more naturally remote .

There is nothing of See also:

• CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

cloud or See also:

• FOG

fog about the path on which he leads us; but we feel now and then the want of a See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge or a handrail; we have to leap from point to point of narrative or See also:

• ARGUMENT

argument without the usual help of a connecting See also:

• PLANK

plank . Even in his dramatic works, where least of all it should have been found, this lack of visible connexion or sequence in details of thought or action is too often a source of sensible perplexity . In his noble trilogy on the See also:

• HISTORY

history of Giovanna 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:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples it is sometimes actually difficult to realize on a first See also:

• READING

reading what has happened or is happening, or how, or why, or by what agency—a defect alone sufficient, but unhappily sufficient in itself, to explain the too See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance of a work so See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich in subtle and noble treatment of character, so sure and strong in its grasp and rendering of " high actions and high passions," so rich in See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour and in pathos, so royally serene in its commanding power upon the tragic mainsprings of terror and of pity . As a poet, he may be said on the whole to stand midway between Byron and Shelley--about as far above the former as below the latter . If we except See also:

• CATULLUS, GAIUS VALERIUS (?84-J4 B.C.)

Catullus and See also:

• SIMONIDES (or SEMONIDES) OF AMORGOS

Simonides, it might be hard to match and it would be impossible to overmatch the flawless and blameless yet living and breathing beauty of his most perfect elegies, epigrams or epitaphs . As truly as prettily was he likened by See also:

• LEIGH
• LEIGH, EDWARD (1602–1671)

Leigh See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

Hunt " to a stormy See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain See also:

• PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine which should produce lilies." His passionate compassion, his See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter and burning pity for all wrongs endured in all the world, found only their natural and inevitable outlet in his lifelong See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence or advocacy of tyrannicide as the last resource of baffled See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice, the last See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge of heroic See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty . His See also:

• TENDER

tender and ardent love of See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, of animals and of See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers makes fragrant alike the pages of his See also:

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

writing and the records of his life . He was as surely the most See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle and generous as the most headstrong and hot-headed of heroes or of men . Nor ever was any See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man's best work more thoroughly imbued and informed with See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of his noblest qualities . His See also:

• LOYALTY

loyalty and liberality of See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart were as inexhaustible as his See also:

• BOUNTY (through O. Fr. bontet, from Lat. bonitas, goodness)

bounty and beneficence of hand . Praise and encouragement, deserved or undeserved, came yet more readily to his lips than See also:

• CHALLENGE (O. Fr. chalonge, calenge, &c., from Lat. calumnia, originally meaning trickery, from calvi, to deceive, hence a false accusation, a " calumny ")

challenge or See also:

• DEFIANCE

defiance . Reviled and ridiculed by See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Byron, he retorted on the offender living less readily and less warmly than he lamented and extolled him dead .

On the noble dramatic works of his See also:

• BROTHER

brother Robert he lavished a magnificence of sympathetic praise which his utmost self-estimate would never have exacted for his own . Age and thelapse of time could neither heighten nor lessen the fulness of this rich and ready generosity . To the poets of his own and of the next See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation he was not readier to do See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour than to those of a later growth, and not seldom of deserts far See also:

• LOWER

lower and far lesser claims than theirs . That he was not unconscious of his own, and avowed it with the See also:

• FRANK, JAKOB (1726-1791)

frank simplicity of nobler times, is not more evident or more certain than that in comparison with his friends and See also:

• FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (1799-1860)

fellows he was liable rather to undervalue than to overrate himself . He was a classic, and no formalist; the wide range of his just and loyal admiration had See also:

• ROOM

room for a genius so far from classical as See also:

• BLAKE, EDWARD (1833– )
• BLAKE, ROBERT (1599-1657)
• BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827)

Blake's . Nor in his own highest See also:

• MOOD

mood or method of creative as of critical work was he a classic only, in any narrow or exclusive sense of the See also:

• TERM

term . On either See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, immediately or hardly below his mighty master-piece of Pericles and Aspasia, stand the two scarcely less beautiful and vivid studies of See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval Italy and Shakespearean England . The very finest flower of his immortal dialogues is probably to be found in the single volume comprising only " Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans "; his utmost command of See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion and pathos may be tested by its transcendent success in the distilled and concentrated tragedy of Tiberius and Vipsania, where for once he shows a quality more proper to romantic than classical See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination—the subtle and See also:

• SUBLIME (Lat. sublimis, exalted)

sublime and terrible power to enter the dark See also:

• VESTIBULE (from Lat. vestibulum)

vestibule of See also:

• DISTRACTION (from Lat. distrakere, to pull asunder)

distraction, to throw the whole force of his See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy, the whole See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire of his spirit, into the " shadowing passion " (as Shakespeare calls it) of gradually imminent See also:

• INSANITY (from Lat. in, not, and sanus, sound)

insanity . Yet, if this and all other studies from See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient history or See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend could be subtracted from the volume of his work, enough would be left whereon to See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of a fame which time could not sensibly impair . (A . C .