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See also: British author and translator, the son of a See also: solicitor, was See also: born at See also: Edinburgh on the 16th of See also: September 1816, and educated at the Royal High School and the University, from which he subsequently received the honorary degree of LL.D
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He practised for some See also: time as a solicitor in Edinburgh, but in 1846 went to See also: London, where he became See also: senior partner in the See also: firm of See also: Martin &
See also: Leslie, See also: parliamentary agents
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He early contributed to See also: Fraser's See also: Magazine and See also: Tait's Magazine, under the signature of " Bon Gaultier," and in 1856, in conjunction with Professor Aytoun, he published the See also: Book of See also: Ballads under the same pseudonym
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This See also: work at once obtained popular favour
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In 1858 he published a See also: volume of See also: translations of the Poems and Ballads of Goethe, and this was followed by a rendering of the Danish poet Henrik Hertz's lyric drama, See also: King Rene's Daughter
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The
See also: principal character in this drama, Iolanthe, was sustained by See also: Helena See also: Faucit (q.v.), who in 1851 became the author's wife
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Martin's translations of Ohlenschlager's dramas, See also: Correggio (1854) and Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp (1857), widened the fame of the Danish poet in See also: England
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In 186o appeared Martin's metrical See also: translation of the Odes of Horace; and in 187o he wrote a volume on Horace for the series of " See also: Ancient See also: Classics for See also: English Readers." In 1882 his Horatian labours were concluded by a translation of the poet's whole See also: works, with a See also: life and notes, in two volumes
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A poetical translation of Catullus was published in 1861, followed by a privately printed volume of Poems, See also: Original and Translated, in 1863
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The came translations of the Vita Nuova of See also: Dante, and the first See also: part of Goethe's See also: Faust
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A metrical translation of the second part of Faust appeared in 1866
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Martin wrote a memoir of his friend Aytoun in 1867, and while engaged upon this'work he was requested by See also: Queen See also: Victoria, to whom he was introduced by his friend See also: Sir Arthur See also: Helps, to undertake the Life of His Royal See also: Highness the See also: Prince See also: Consort
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The first volume of this well-known work was published in 1874 . In 1878 Martin's translation of See also: Heine's Poems and Ballads appeared
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Two years later the Life of the Prince Consort was brought to a successful conclusion by the publication of the fifth volume
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A See also: knighthood was then conferred upon him
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In the following See also: November he was elected See also: lord rector of the university of St Andrews
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Martin's Life of Lord Lyndhurst, based upon papers furnished by the See also: family, was published in 1883
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In 1889 appeared The See also: Song of the See also: Bell, and other Translations from Schiller, Goethe, See also: Uhland, and Others; in 1894 Madonna Pia, a Tragedy, and three Other Dramas; a translation of See also: Leopardi's poems in 1905; and in Igor he published a biography of his wife
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The kindly relations which subsisted between Queen Victoria and Sir See also: Theodore Martin were continued after the completion of the Life of the prince consort up to the queen's See also: death
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Sir Theodore's account of these relations was privately printed in 1902, and, with King See also: Edward's consent, for general publication in 1908
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This little book, Queen Victoria as I knew her, throws a See also: good See also: deal of See also: light on the Queen's
The Latin text is printed, with introduction by L
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Weiland, in See also: Band XXII. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica (See also: Hanover and Berlin, 1826 seq.)
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See G
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Waitz, H . Brosien and others in the Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft fur altere deutsche Geschichtskunde (Hanover, 1876 seq.) ; W . See also: Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Band II
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(Berlin, 1894); and A
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See also: Molinier, See also: Les See also: Sources de l'histoire de See also: France, Tome III
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(See also: Paris, 1903)
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