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See also:OCTAVE (from See also:Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)
, a See also:period or See also:series of eight members
.
In ecclesiastical usage the See also:octave is the eighth See also:day after a particular See also:
In literature an octave is a See also:form of See also:verse consisting of eight See also:iambic lines, and See also:complete in itself
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From its use by the poets of See also:Sicily, the recognized type of this form is usually called the Sicilian Octave
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It is distinguished from a single See also:stanza of ottava rima, in which the See also:rhyme-arrangement is abababcc, by having only two rhymes, arranged abababab
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In See also:German literature the octave has been used not infrequently since 1820, when See also:Ruckert published " Sicilianen," as they are called in German, for the first See also:time
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The word octave is also often used to describe
paralysed, wholly collapsed
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O'Connell died on the 15th of May 1847, at See also:Genoa, whilst on his way to See also:Rome
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His See also:body was brought back to See also:Dublin and buried in Glasnevin See also:cemetery
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O'Connell was a remarkable See also:man in every sense of the word, of splendid physique, and with all the attractions of a popular See also:leader
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See also:Catholic See also:Ireland calls him her " Liberator " still; and See also:history will say of him that, with some failings, he had many and See also:great gifts, that he was an orator of a high See also:order, and that, agitator as he was, he possessed the See also:wisdom, the caution and the tact of a real statesman
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Nevertheless he not only failed to accomplish the See also:chief aim of his See also:life, but See also:Lecky trenchantly observes that " by a singular fatality the great See also:advocate of See also:repeal did more than any one else to make the See also:Union a See also:necessity
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He destroyed the sympathy between the See also:people and their natural leaders; and he threw the former into the hands of men who have subordinated all See also:national to ecclesiastical considerations, or into the hands of reckless, ignorant, and dishonest adventurers." O'Connell married in 1802 his See also:cousin See also:Mary O'Connell, by whom he had three daughters and four sons, See also:Maurice, See also:Morgan, See also:
His son John published a Life in 1846 and Recollections and Experiences in 1849
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There are also See also:biographies by W
.
Fagan (1847), M
.
F
.
Cusack (1872), J
.
O'Rourke and O'Keeffe (1875), and J
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A
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See also:
H
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(1903)
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(W
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O
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M.)
O'See also:CONNOR, FEARGUS See also:EDWARD (1794-1855), Chartist leader, was a son of the Irish Nationalist politician See also:Roger O'Connor (1762—1834), and See also:nephew of See also:Arthur O'Connor (1763—1852), who was the See also:agent in See also:France for See also:Emmet's See also:rebellion; both belonged to the " See also:United Irishmen." He entered parliament as member for the See also:county of See also:Cork in 1832
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Though a zealous supporter of repeal, he endeavoured to supplant O'Connell as the leader of the party, an See also:attempt which aroused against him the popular antipathy of the Irish
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In 1835 he was unseated on See also:petition, and after See also:standing unsuccessfully for See also:Oldham he took to stumping See also:England in favour of the new See also:Radical doctrines of the day, and the use of See also:physical force for their See also:adoption
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In 1837 he established the See also:Northern See also:Star newspaper at See also:Leeds, and became a vehement advocate of the Chartist See also:movement
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He was imprisoned for seditious See also:libel in 1840, and after his See also:release became prominent for his attack on John See also:Bright, and the See also:anti-See also:corn-law See also:league
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In 1847 he was returned for See also:Nottingham, and in 1848 he presided at a Chartist demonstration on See also:Kennington See also:Common, which caused great alarm (see See also:CHARTISM)
.
But the projected See also: He began to conduct himself in a disorderly manner in the See also:House of See also:Commons, and in 1852 he was found to be of unsound mind by a See also:commission of lunacy . He died at See also:London on the 3oth of See also:August 1855, and was buried in Kensal See also:Green cemetery . |
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