See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)

LOVELACE (1618-1658)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• WOOLWICH

Woolwich in 1618 . He was a See also:

• SCION

scion of a Kentish See also:

• FAMILY

family, and inherited a tradition of military distinction, maintained by successive generations from the 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 of See also:

• EDWARD

Edward III . His See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• SIR

Sir 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:

• LOVELACE, RICHARD (1618-1658)

Lovelace, had served in the See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

Low Countries, received the 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 of See also:

• KNIGHTHOOD

knighthood from See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James I., and was killed at Grolle in 1628 . His See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis Lovelace, the " See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel Francis " of Lucasta, served on the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of 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 I., and de-fended Caermarthen in 1644 . His See also:

• MOTHER

mother's family was legal; her grandfather had been See also:

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

chief See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

baron of the See also:

• EXCHEQUER

exchequer . See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard was educated at the See also:

• CHARTERHOUSE

Charterhouse and at See also:

• GLOUCESTER
• GLOUCESTER (abbreviated as pronounced Glo'ster)
• GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF (1243-1295)
• GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, EARL OF (1222-1262)
• GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF (d. 1147)
• GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE

Gloucester See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, where he matriculated in 1634 . Through the See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request of one of the 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's ladies on the royal visit to Oxford he was made M.A., though only in his second See also:

• YEAR

year at the university . Lovelace's fame has been kept alive by a few songs and the See also:

• ROMANCE

romance of his career, and his poems are commonly spoken of as careless improvisations, and merely the amusements of an active soldier . But the unhappy course of his See also:

• LIFE

life gave him more leisure for 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-making than opportunity of soldiering . Before the outbreak of the See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war in 1642 his only active service was in the bloodless expedition which ended in the Pacification of See also:

• BERWICK, JAMES FITZJAMES

Berwick in 164o . On the conclusion of See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace he entered into See also:

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

possession of the family estates at Bethersden, See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury, See also:

• CHART (from Lat. carta, charta, a map)

Chart and Halden in See also:

• KENT
• KENT, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• KENT, JAMES (1763-1847)
• KENT, WILLIAM (1685-1748)

Kent . By that time he was one of the most distinguished of the See also:

• COMPANY

company of courtly poets gathered See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round Queen Henrietta, who were influenced as a school by contemporary See also:

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

French writers of vers de societe .

He wrote a See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, The See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

Scholar, when he was sixteen, and a tragedy, The -Soldier, when he was twenty-one . From what he says of See also:

• FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM (1845– )
• FLETCHER, ANDREW
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1548-1611)
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1584-1623)
• FLETCHER, JOHN WILLIAM (1729-1785)
• FLETCHER, PHINEAS (1582-1650)

Fletcher, it would seem that this dramatist was his See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model, but only the See also:

• PROLOGUE (from Gr. 7rpo, before, and Myer, a word)

prologue and See also:

• EPILOGUE

epilogue to his comedy have been preserved . When the rupture between See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king and See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament took See also:

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

place, Lovelace was committed to the See also:

• GATEHOUSE

Gatehouse at See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster for presenting to the See also:

• COMMONS

Commons in 1642 a See also:

• PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

petition from Kentish royalists in the king's favour . It was then that he wrote his most famous See also:

• SONG

song, " To Althea from See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

Prison." He was liberated, says See also:

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

Wood, on See also:

• BAIL

bail of £40,000 (more probably £4000), and throughout the civil war was a prisoner on See also:

• PAROLE (shortened from the Fr. parole d'honneur, word of honour)

parole, with this See also:

• SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security in the hands of his enemies . He contrived, however, to render considerable service to the king's cause . He provided his two See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers with See also:

• MONEY

money to raise men for the Royalist See also:

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

army, and befriended many of the king's adherents . He was especially generous to scholars and musicians, and among his associates in See also:

• LONDON

London were See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• LAWES, HENRY (1595-1662)
• LAWES, SIR JOHN BENNET, BART

Lawes and 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 Gamble, the Cottons, Sir 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 See also:

• LELY, SIR PETER (1617—168o)

Lely, See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew Marvell and probably Sir John Suckling . He joined the king at Oxford in 1645, and after the surrender of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city in 1646 he raised a See also:

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

regiment for the service of the French king . He was wounded at the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of See also:

• DUNKIRK
• DUNKIRK (Fr. Dunkerque)

Dunkirk, and with his brother See also:

• DUDLEY
• DUDLEY, BARONS AND EARLS OF
• DUDLEY, EDMUND (c. 1462—1510)
• DUDLEY, SIR ROBERT (1573—1649)
• DUDLEY, THOMAS (1576-1653)

Dudley, who had acted as See also:

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

captain in his brother's command, returned to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in 1648 . It is not known whether the brothers took any See also:

• PART

part in the disturbances in Kent of that year, but both were imprisoned at See also:

• PETRE, SIR EDWARD (1631-1699)
• PETRE, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1505-1572)

Petre 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 in Alders-See also:

• GATE

gate . During this second imprisonment he collected and revised for the See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of occasional poems, many if not most of which had previously appeared in various publications . The volume was published in 1649 under the See also:

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

title of Lucasta, his poetical name—contracted from Lux Casta—for a See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady rashly identified by Wood as See also:

• LUCY, RICHARD DE (d. 1179)

Lucy See also:

• SACHEVERELL, HENRY (1674-1724)
• SACHEVERELL, W
• SACHEVERELL, WILLIAM (1638-1691)

Sacheverell, who, it is said, married another during his See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, on a See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report that he had died of his wounds at Dunkirk .

The last ten years of Lovelace's life were passed in obscurity . His See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune had been exhausted in the king's See also:

• INTEREST

interest, and he is said to have been supported by the generosity of See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends . He died in 1658 " in a cellar in See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

Long-See also:

• ACRE
• ACRE, or AQUIRY

acre," according to See also:

• AUBREY, JOHN (1626-1697)

Aubrey, who, however, possibly exaggerates his poverty . A volume of Lovelace's Posthume Poems was published in 1659 by his brother Dudley . They are of inferior merit to his own collection . The See also:

• WORLD

world has done no injustice to Lovelace in neglecting all but a few of his modest offerings to literature . But critics often do him injustice in dismissing him as a See also:

• GAY, JOHN (1685-1732)
• GAY, MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE (1776-1852)
• GAY, WALTER (1856– )

gay See also:

• CAVALIER
• CAVALIER, JEAN (1681-1740)

cavalier, who dashed off his verses hastily and cared little what became of them . It is a See also:

• MISTAKE (i.e. take amiss)

mistake to class him with Suckling; he has neither Suckling's easy 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 nor his reckless spontaneity . We have only to compare the version of any of his poems in Lucasta with the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form in which it originally appeared to see how fastidious was his revision . In many places it takes time to decipher his meaning . The expression is often elliptical, the syntax inverted and tortuous, the See also:

• TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train of thought intricate and discontinuous . These faults—they are not of course to be found in his two or three popular lyrics, " Going to the See also:

• WARS

Wars," " To Althea from Prison," " The See also:

• SCRUTINY (Fr. scrutin, Late Lat. scrulinium, from scrutari, to search or examine thoroughly)

Scrutiny "—are, however, as in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of his poetical 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, See also:

• DONNE, JOHN (1573–1631)

Donne, the faults not of haste but of over-elaboration .

His thoughts are not the first thoughts of an See also:

• IMPROVISATORE

improvisatore, but -thoughts ten or twenty stages removed from the first, and they are generally as closely packed as they are far-fetched . His poems were edited by W . C . See also:

• HAZLITT, WILLIAM (1778-1830)

Hazlitt in 1864 .