EVERy other author may *ASPIRE to PRAISE*
art
Samuel Johnson (1755)
Preface to the English Dictionary
<<IT IS the *FATE* of those who toil at the lower employments of life,
to be rather driven by the *FEAR of EVIL* , than attracted by the
prospect of good; to be exposed to *CENSURE* , without HOPE of
PRAISE* ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect,
where success would have been without applause, and diligence without
reward.
.
Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom
mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science,
the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear
obstructions from the paths through which Learning and Genius press
forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble
drudge that facilitates their progress. EVERy other author may *ASPIRE
to PRAISE*; the lexicographer can only HOPE to escape reproach, and
even this negative recompense has been yet granted to VERy few.>>
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"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies,
one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better
language; and EVERy chapter must be so translated...As therefore the
*BELL* that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but
upon the congregation to come: so this *BELL* calls us all: but how
much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, entire of itself...
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore nEVER send to know *FOR WHOM THE BELL tolls* ;
it tolls for thee." - John Donne
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Sonnet 71
.
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen *BELL*
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest WORMS to dwell:
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The Rape of Lucrece
.
This said, he SHAKEs aloft his Roman blade,
Which, like a falcon towering in the skies,
Coucheth the fowl below with his wings' shade,
Whose crooked beak threats if he mount he dies:
So under his insulting falchion lies
Harmless Lucretia, marking what he tells
With trembling *FEAR*, as fowl hear falcon's *BELLS* .
.
Here feelingly she weeps Troy's painted woes:
For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging *BELL*,
Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes;
Then little strength rings out the *doleful KNELL* :
So Lucrece, set a-work, sad tales doth tell
To pencill'd pensiveness and colour'd sorrow;
She lends them words, and she their looks doth borrow.
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The Passionate Pilgrim Sonnet 18
.
My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal;
My wether's *BELL* rings *doleful KNELL* ;
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King Henry VI, Part iii Act 2, Scene 5
.
Father: These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;
. My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,
. For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go;
. My sighing breast shall be thy funeral *BELL*;
. And so obsequious will thy father be,
. Even for the loss of thee, having no more,
. As Priam was for all his valiant sons.
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From the daybook of the sexton of St. Saviour's, Southwark,
(just blocks from the Globe) for December 31, 1607:
.
. "Edmund Shakspeare, a player,
buried in the Church with a forenoone KNELL
. of the great *BELL*, xx s."
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<< *BELL* ; PIG ; book; crutch; *HERMIT* ; Saint
Anthony's cross; *TAU CROSS* with a *BELL* on the end.>>
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The *HERMIT THRUSH* is the state bird of VERmont.
........................................
Walt Whitman construes the *HERMIT THRUSH* as a symbol of the American
voice, poetic and otherwise, in his elegy for Abraham Lincoln, "When
Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," one of the fundamental texts
in the American literary canon. This bird first appears in another
canonical poem, Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."
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In the swamp in secluded recesses,
A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
.
SOLITARY the *THRUSH* ,
The *HERMIT* withdrawn to himself,
. avoiding the settlements,
Sings by himself a song.
.
Song of the bleeding throat, http://tinyurl.com/2tsy5c
Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
If thou wast not granted to sing, thou would'st surely die.)
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. King John Act 3, Scene 3
.
BASTARD: *BELL* , book, and candle shall not drive me back,
. When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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<<"Tantony PIG" is an old English derogatory term for someone who
blindly, but fleetingly, follows others. "Tantony" is a middle ages
contraction of "St. Anthony" and relates to the story of Saint Anthony
(= St. Antony without an "h" in U.S. English) who is the Patron Saint
of PIGs. He was born wealthy but gave all his money away to the poor.
He lived a harsh life of prayer, penance, self-deprivation and hard
work, yet lived to the ripe old age of 105. While on a year of
SOLITARY retreat & prayer, St. Anthony had the experience of being
tempted by Satan who allegedly came to him in the form of a fierce PIG
which viciously attacked him. Anthony saintily resisted the temptation
to return the favour and beat the PIG to death, whereupon he was
enveloped by a "wondrous light" and the PIG was transformed into a
humble and docile PORCINE companion. Anthony's purity and self-
sacrifice, together with his PORCINE transformation story, attracted
a following of disciples and he founded a religious order called the
Hospitallers of St. Anthony. Monks of this order founded St Anthony's
hospital in London, UK. Local people gave their "poor-doer" runt PIGs
to the monks who, in time, became well-known for their free-range PIG-
raising as well as for their medical support to the suffering. Tantony
also came to be a term for a runt PIG. The hospital PIGs were allowed
to roam freely and scavenge around the city and would follow anyone
who looked a likely source of scraps. HowEVER, even in the middle
ages, "traceability" was an issue and the monks made their PIGs
traceable by the simple expedient of putting *BELLs* around their
necks. It also said that monks of the Order of St. Anthony
travelled around Europe with *BELL-wearing PORCINE* companions.
.
His monks developed a reputation for helping people affected by
"St. Anthony's Fire" a gangrenous skin disease which we know today
as "Ergotism" - caused by the toxins of the grain fungus Ergot.
In fact St. Anthony also has the rather unattractive appellation
of "Patron Saint of Skin Diseases"! Indeed, in the days
before antibiotic treatment, prayers to Saint Anthony were
the first port of call in cases of swine erysipelas.>>
.
http://www.pighealth.com/reviews/tantony.htm
http://www.goatview.com/january17.htm
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Anne *BRONTE* ( *ACTON BELL* ) born St Anthony's day 1820
*BRONTE* => Greek for *THUNDER*
...............................................
*A Hermit THRUSH* appears in the
5th section ("What the *THUNDER* Said")
of the T. S. Eliot's _The Waste Land_
...............................................
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But the sound of water over a rock
*Where the HERMIT-THRUSH sings in the pine trees*
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
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<<Anne Brontë (January 17, 1820 - May 28, 1849) :
Novelist & poet, the youngest of the Brontë sisters.
She used the pen name *ACTON BELL* .>>
.................................
*ACTON* : A taffeta, or *LEATHER-quilted DRESS* , worn under
the habergeon to keep the body from being chafed or bruised.
[Old French expression aketon, auqueton, French hoqueton, quilted
jacket, from Spanish alcoton, algodon, cotton. Compare to Cotton.]
.................................
___ *ACTON*
___ {anagram}
___ *CANTO* : A part or division of a poem, answering to what
in prose is called a book. In Italian, *CANTO* is a song, and it
signifies also the treble part, first treble, or highest vocal part.
.
In time the term *TANTONY* came to be applied
to a small peal of *BELLS* in *BELL-ringing* .
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http://tinyurl.com/3ccupr
.........................................
In the swamp in secluded recesses,
A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
.
SOLITARY the *THRUSH* ,
The *HERMIT* withdrawn to himself,
. avoiding the settlements,
Sings by himself a song.
.
Song of the bleeding throat, http://tinyurl.com/2tsy5c
Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
If thou wast not granted to sing, thou would'st surely die.)
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___ *ARTHUR BELL NICHOLLS*
______ {anagram}
___ *BELL CARILLON THRUSH* : http://tinyurl.com/2tsy5c
.........................................
<<When crimson Phoebus swings low in the west, from the deep recesses
of our low, damp woods comes the *hermit THRUSH's* plaintive notes,
so clear, so mournful, and *so full of mystic meaning* . It seems
impossible that they could have come from the throat of a bird.>>
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Washington Irving _The Legend of Sleepy Hollow_
.
<<I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-
shooting was in a grove of tall *WALNUT-TREES* that shades one side
of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature
is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by *the ROAR of my own gun* ,
as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and
*REVERbEratED by the angry ECHOES* . If EVER I should
wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its
distractions, and *DREAM* quietly away the remnant of a troubled
life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.>>
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http://www.saintanthonyofpadua.net/portale/camposampiero.asp
.
<<Camposampiero is an important town in the province of Padua,
just 20 kms from the city. In St. Anthony's day it was a village
which housed the castle of Count Tiso IV, who was converted by
St. Anthony's preaching. The count convinced the Saint to
retire there in order to rest, and recover his strength
of body & spirit. The Saint went there in May of 1231.
.
Outside the walls of the castle there was a hermitage where
the friars used to stay, and with them, St. Anthony. HowEVER,
St. Anthony decided he wanted more peace and quiet, so he had
a small tree-house built in the branches of a *WALNUT TREE* .
"The man of God, having one day admired the beauty of the tree,
immediately, upon inspiration of the Spirit, decided to have
*A CELL* constructed in the *WALNUT TREE* , because the tree
offered unbelievable solitude and quiet for contemplation.
As soon as he heard tell of the Saint's wish from the other
friars, the nobleman tied down poles to the branches and,
with his own hands, constructed a cell of mats."
.
Camposampiero is also the place of another famous event
in St. Anthony's life: his vision of the baby Jesus.
It is an event which, more than any other,
characterizes the contemplative spirituality
of St. Anthony. The Book of Miracles says:
.
"Blessed Anthony found himself in a city to preach and was put up
by a local resident. He gave him a room set apart, so that he could
study and contemplate undisturbed. While he was devotedly observing
the room in which St. Anthony had immersed himself in prayer,
peeping through the window, he saw a beautiful joyful baby appear
in blessed Anthony's arms. That baby was the Lord Jesus.
.
In remembrance of these two facts, there are
two churches in Camposampiero: the Shrine of
the Vision and the Shrine of *the WALNUT TREE* .
.
The tall and narrow monumental *BELL* tower which flanks the church
(75m high) was designed by the Paduan architect Agostino Miozzo in
1898-99 and inaugurated in 1922 with the placing of the enormous
statue of St. Anthony (19ft tall) on its pinnacle. This statue is the
work of the sculptor Silvio Righetti from Verona. In the *BELL tower*
there is a group of eight *BELLS* (5,850 kg of bronze), in a perfect
musical scale. They were cast by the Cavadini foundry in Verona.>>
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On 25th October, 1598, Richard Quiney writes a letter asking to borrow
£30 from Shakespeare, but he doesn't send it. It's later found amongst
his papers. "It was written by one Richard Quiney and addressed by
him from the *BELL INN* in Carter Lane, London, whither he had gone
from Stratford upon business".
It's Quiney's son that later married Judith Shakespeare.
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Henry Fielding. _The History of Tom Jones_
-..................................................
Book XVI. Containing the Space of Five Days
VIII. Schemes of Lady *BELLaston* for the Ruin of Jones
-..................................................
Book VIII. Containing about Two Days
VIII. Jones Arrives at Gloucester and Goes to the BELL;
the Character of That House, and of
a Petty-Fogger Which He There Meets with
.
MR. JONES and Partridge, or Little Benjamin (which epithet of Little
was perhaps given him ironically, he being in reality near six feet
high), having left their last quarters in the manner before described,
travelled on to Gloucester without meeting any adventure WORTH
relating. Being arrived here, they chose for their house
of entertainment *the sign of the Bell* ,
an excellent house indeed, and which I do most seriously
recommend to EVERy reader who shall visit this antient city.
The master of it is *brother to the great PREACHER WHITEFIELD*;
but is absolutely untainted with the pernicious principles
of Methodism, or of any other heretical sect.
He is, indeed, a VERy honest, plain man, and, in my opinion,
not likely to create any disturbance either in church or state.
His wife hath, I believe, had much pretension to beauty,
and is still a VERy fine woman. Her person and deportment
might have made a shining figure in the politest assemblies; but,
though she must be conscious of this and many other perfections, she
seems perfectly contented with, and resigned to, that state of life
to which she is called; and this resignation is entirely owing to the
prudence and wisdom of her temper; for she is at present as free from
any Methodistical notions as her husband: I say at present, for she
freely confesses that her brother's documents made at first some
impression upon her, and that she had put herself to the expense of
a long hood, in order to attend the extraordinary emotions of the
Spirit; but having found, during an experiment of three weeks,
no emotions, she says, WORTH a farthing, she *VERy WISEly* laid
by her hood, and abandoned the sect. To be concise, she is a
VERy friendly, good-natured woman, and so industrious to
oblige, that the guests must be of a VERy morose disposition
who are not extremely well satisfied in her house.>>
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Boston Its Story and People by Geo. S. Bagley (1986).
http://www.insales1.demon.co.uk/Genealogy/Documents/johnfoxe1.htm
.
<<John Foxe, author of _Book of Martyrs_ (1563) was born in 1516 in
the Boston market place house which later became the *BELL INN* >>
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http://diwi.pl/en/George%20Whitefield
.
<<George *WHITEFIELD*, was a minister in the Church of England
and one of the leaders of the Methodist movement. He was
*the son of a widow* who kept an inn at Gloucester, England .
.
George *WHITEFIELD* was born on Dec. 16 , 1714 at the *BELL INN*
, Gloucester, England, and died in Newburyport, Massachusetts
on September 30 , 1770 . At an early age, he found that he had
a passion and talent for acting and the theatre, a passion that he
would carry on through the VERy theatrical re-enactments of Bible
stories that he told during his sermons. He was educated at the
The Crypt School, Gloucester , Gloucester, and Pembroke College,
Oxford . Because *WHITEFIELD* came from a poor background,
he did not have the means to pay for his tuition.
He therefore entered Oxford as a servitor,
the lowest rank of students at Oxford. In return for free tuition,
he was assigned as a servant to a number of higher ranked
students. His duties would include waking them in the morning,
polishing their shoes, carrying their books and even doing their
coursework. He was a part of the 'Holy Club' at University
of Oxford with the brothers, John Wesley and Charles
Wesley . His genuine piety led the Bishop of Gloucester to ordain
him before the canonical age. In contemporary accounts, he,
not John Wesley , is spoken of as the supreme figure and even
as the founder of Methodism . He was famous for his preaching
in America which was a significant part of the Great Awakening
movement of Christian revivals. He has been called
by some historians "the first modern celebrity." >>
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Old and New London:
A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45113
.
<<The "Old *BELL INN* " , on the east side of the lane, is the house
where Archbishop Leighton died. According to Burnet, in his "History
of His Own Times," "he (Archbishop Leighton) used often to say that if
he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn; it looking
like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and
who was weary of the noise and confusion in it. He added that the
officious tenderness and care of friends was an entanglement to a
dying man; and that the unconcerned attendance of those that could be
procured in such a place would give less disturbance. And he obtained
what he DESIREd; for he died (1684) at the *BELL INN* , in Warwick
Lane."
.
The "Oxford Arms" Inn, formerly on the west side of the street, is
mentioned in a carrier's advertisement in the London Gazette, 1672-73.
Edward Bartlet, an Oxford carrier, who had removed from the "Swan" at
Holborn Bridge, started his coaches and wagons from thence three times
a week. He also announced that he kept a hearse, to convey "a corps"
to any part of England.>>
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Terry Ross <t...@bcpl.net> wrote:
>
> Rob is doing a fine job responding to the odd notion that
> "true copy" means "dead writer," but I thought I'd add another
> example of a living author whose work was so described.
> Thomas Browne's *Religio Medici* circulated in manuscript before
> it appeared in an unauthorized edition in 1642. In 1643,
> Browne prepared an authorized version, which was described
> on the frontispiece as "A true and full coppy of that
> which was most imperfectly and Surreptitiously printed
> before under the name of: Religio Medici."
> See an image of the page here:
> http://penelope.uchicago.edu/relmed/relmed2.gif
> In his epistle to the reader, Browne himself says, "I have at present
> represented unto the world a full and intended copy of that Peece
> which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously published before."
> Thomas Browne died in 1682 -- 39 years after
> his "true and full coppy" appeared in print.
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. Sir Thomas Brown: advocate of cremation &
. author of _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_ [Vulgar Errors]
.
. was born on October 19, 1605 (O.S.) and
. died on October 19, 1682, his 77th birthday.
.
(& _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_ [Vulgar Errors] has
. a chapter that deals with just such coincidences!!!)
--------------------------------------------------------------
Jonathan Swift died on October 19, 1745, (age 77!!).
Joan Shakspere Hart &
Judith Shakspere Quiney both lived to age 77.
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Saint Frideswide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frideswide
Saint Frideswide (c. 650 – October 19, 735; Old English: Friðuswīþ;
also known as Fritheswithe, Frevisse, or simply Fris) was the celibate
English princess & abbess credited with establishing Christ Church in
Oxford. Frideswide is the patron saint of Oxford. Her feast day is
October 19. In art, she is depicted holding the pastoral staff of an
abbess, a fountain springing up near her and *an ox at her feet* .
Frideswide was born to Didanus (an Anglo-Saxon king) and his wife
Safrida around AD 650. Frideswide founded a priory (St Frideswide's
Priory) while still young, but while bound to celibacy Algar (that is,
Ælfgār), a Mercian king, tried to court her. When Frideswide refused
him, Algar tried to rape her, but she hid in a nearby forest (in a
"tub") to escape him. After she returned to the priory, Algar
continued his advances until he lost his vision. According to
tradition, Frideswide felt compassion for Algar and while in Binsey
prayed to St Margaret of Antioch and St Catherine of Alexandria, who
instructed her to hit the ground with her abbess's staff. Once
Frideswide did this, the ground gave way to reveal a well, whose water
she used to cure Algar's blindness.
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http://www.arca.net/db/medici/medici5.htm
<<Francesco I, the successors of Cosimo I
(who died on October 19, 1587 at the age of 54)
was an introverted man, gloomy given to silence.
What is more, he was distracted by scientific & alchemistic studies.
[Francesco had a fascination with the Black Arts, kept a cell
with decorations which can still be seen today which mirror the
descriptions given in the song in the play "Full Fathom Five,"
and had a penchant for establishing elaborate gardens with exotic
plants & animals, and *enchanted islands in their midst* .
He was also distracted by an intense love-affair with
a beautiful venetian young lady Bianca Cappello that he married
after his official wife Joanna of Austria passed away. Both of
them Francesco & Bianca died in 1587, mysteriously one after the
other in their Villa at Poggio a Caiano and since Francesco's only
son little Don Filippo had died, too, the only heir of the Medici
family was Francesco's brother: cardinal Ferdinando. He had been
destined to the cardinalship in the tradition of the great italian
families. The cardinal, who had taken neither his vows nor holy
orders though he lived much of the time in Rome in his magnificent
villa on the Pincio hill, abandoned his cardinal's hat and became
the third grand duke of Tuscany.
After his father Cosimo, who had created the Duchy of Tuscany as a
political entity, Ferdinando was undoubtedly the best of the Medici
princes. Intelligent, prudent and well-balanced, he had a strong
sense of family dignity and was well versed in the art of good
government. His personal coat-of-arms, a swarm of bees around
the queen bee without a stinger and the two mottoes,
Maiestate tantum and Pacis et finium tutela,
signify his intollerance of all forms of violence
(the only exception being his dislike of Bianca Cappello).
Ferdinando returned the life of the grand duchy to a state of
tranquility after the general shock of the scandal of Francesco's
love for the beautiful Bianca. Ferdinando dei Medici died suddenly
on February 7, 1609, and his reign can be considered the high point
of the age of the grand dukes. He ruled as a WISE prince; his reign
was peaceful, and he showed concern both for the welfare of his
people and for the reputation of the state. With the help of
his wife, Christine of Lorraine, he developed the life of
the court so that it stood as an example of morality,
grace, and good taste.>>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
October 19, 202 BC - Hannibal defeated in the Battle of Zama.
October 19, 439 - The Vandals take Carthage 640 years later
October 19, 1912 - Italy takes Tripoli from the Ottoman Empire.
.
<<Benjamin Franklin once attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia
and was greatly impressed with Whitefield's ability to deliver a
message to such a large audience. Franklin had dismissed reports of
Whitefield preaching to crowds of the order of tens of thousands in
England as exaggeration. When listening to Whitefield preaching from
the Philadelphia court house, Franklin walked away towards his shop in
Market Street until he could no longer hear Whitefield distinctly. He
then estimated his distance from Whitefield and calculated the area of
a semi-circle centred on Whitefield. Allowing two square feet per
person he realized that Whitefield really could be heard by tens of
thousands of people in the open air. He then became Whitefield's
publisher and friend, though he nEVER shared Whitefield's beliefs.
Whitefield was also known to be able to use the newspaper media for
beneficial publicity.>>
.
October 19, 735, Saint Frideswide dies
.
October 19, 1216, King John dies.
.
October 19, 1433, MARSILIO FICINO born at Figline in the Val d'Arno
.
October 19, 1552, George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury, born.
. A leader of the English Calvinists, Abbot helped in
. translating the 1611 King James Version of the Bible.
.
October 19, 1587, Francesco de' Medici & wife murdered by brother?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_I_de%27_Medici,_Grand_Duke_of_...
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http://www.christourrock.net/messages/aspire.htm
.
Lord *ACTON* :
.
. Advice to Persons About to Write History -- Don't.
.
. A *WISE* person does at once, what a fool does at last.
. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
.
October 19, 1597, Andrew Wise registers Richard III
--------------------------------------
.
October 19, 1605, Sir Thomas Brown, Renaissance author of The
. _Anatomy of Melancholy_, was born. He also wrote _Pseudodoxia
. Epidemica_, or _Vulgar Errors_ published when he was 16.
.
October 19, 1609, Jacob Arminius, 49, died on this day in 1609.
. Dutch theologian who lent his name to the beliefs (known today as
. Arminianism) which oppose the major tenets of (Calvinist) theology.
.
October 19, 1682, Sir Thomas Brown died on his 77th birthday.
(Pseudodoxia has a chapter that deals in part with such coincidences.)
.
October 19, 1720, John Woolman, American Quaker reformer, born.
. His [1756-1772] "Journal," greatly influenced abolitionists.
.
October 19, 1741, David Garrick makes his stage debut
. as Richard III at the Goodman Fields Theater.
. (144 years after Andrew Wise registered Richard III)
October 19, 1744, English revivalist George Whitefield, 29,
. arrived in Maine. Whitefield struggled to adapt the beliefs
. of Calvinism to the Arminian teachings of proto-Methodists.
.
October 19, 1745, Jonathan Swift, feeble & insane, died. His servants
allowed the public to pull souvenir hairs from his head. His epitaph
said that he had gone to a place where he could be excoriated no more.
.
October 19, 1748, Martha Wayles Skelton, Thomas Jefferson's wife, born
.
October 19, 1765, Stamp Act Congress drew up
. a declaration of rights & liberties.
.
October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrenders.
.
October 19, 1784, Leigh Hunt was born near London. His parents had
. lived for a while in Philadelphia (his mother took guitar lessons
. from Ben Franklin), but they returned as Loyalists during the
. Revolution. Hunt is the avuncular figure of American literature,
. having published Keats' poem & buried Shelley.
.
Leigh Hunt ended up with a strand of Swift's hair for his collection.
. Keats wrote a sonnet on it.
.
1789 - first Chief Justice : John Jay
.
October 19, 1812, Napoleon began his retreat from Moscow.
October 19, 1813, Napoleon loses The Battle of Leipzig
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http://www.christourrock.net/messages/aspire.htm
.
Lord *ACTON* : *PRAISE* is the shipwreck of historians.
......................................
____ *PRAISE*
____ *ASPIRE*
____ *PRAISE*
......................................
Josephus permutation: n=6 m=2
*but starting on second person*
http://www.wou.edu/~burtonl/josephus.html
......................................
"Plain Bob Doubles" :
http://www.changeringing.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Plain_Bob_Doubles
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____ *WORTH* : *VERDI* (Norwegian)
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*PRAISE* , n. [OE. preis, OF. preis price, *WORTH*
. , value, estimation. See Praise, v., Price.]
...............................................
Golding's Ovid (Ep.130):
But pride and fond DESIRE of *PRAISE* have EVER wrought ...
.................................
Come hither, shepherd swain!
. Sir, what do you require?
I pray thee show to me thy name;
. My name is Fond DESIRE. - E.O.
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. Ben Jonson's To the memory of my beloved, the Author,
.
To draw no *ENVY* (Shakespeare) on thy name,
Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame;
While I confesse thy writings to be such,
As neither Man, nor Muse, can *PRAISE* too much.
'Tis TRUe, and all men's suffrage. But these wayes
Were not the paths I meant unto thy *PRAISE*;
For seeliest Ignorance on these may light,
Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho's right;
Or blinde Affection, which doth ne're advance
The TRUth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;
Or crafty Malice, might pretend this *PRAISE*,
And thine to ruine, where it seem'd to raise.
These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore,
Should *PRAISE* a Matron. What could hurt her more?
But thou art proofe against them, and indeed
Above th' ill fortune of them, or the need.
I, therefore will begin. Soule of the Age !
The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our Stage !
My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye
A little further, to make thee a roome :
Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe,
And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live,
And we have wits to read, and *PRAISE* to give.
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. Sonnet 2
.
Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless *PRAISE*.
How much more *PRAISE* deserved thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
.
. Sonnet 21
.
Let them say more than like of hearsay well;
I will not *PRAISE* that purpose not to sell.
.
. Sonnet 38
.
If my slight Muse do please these curious days,
The pain be mine, but thine shall be the *PRAISE*.
.
. Sonnet 39
.
O, how thy *WORTH* with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own *PRAISE* to mine own self bring?
And what is 't but mine own when I *PRAISE* thee?
.
. Sonnet 55
.
Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your *PRAISE* shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
.
. Sonnet 59
.
O, sure I am, the wits of former days
To subjects worse have given admiring *PRAISE*.
.
. Sonnet 62
'Tis thee, myself, that for myself I *PRAISE*,
Painting my age with beauty of thy days.
.
. Sonnet 69
.
Thy outward thus with outward *PRAISE* is crown'd;
But those same tongues that give thee so thine own
In other accents do this *PRAISE* confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
.
. Sonnet 70
.
Thou hast pass'd by the ambush of young days,
Either not assail'd or victor being charged;
Yet this thy *PRAISE* cannot be so thy *PRAISE*,
To tie up *ENVY* EVERmore enlarged:
.
. Sonnet 72
.
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more *PRAISE* upon deceased I
Than niggard TRUth would willingly impart:
.
. Sonnet 79
.
He lends thee virtue and he stole that word
From thy behavior; beauty doth he give
And found it in thy cheek; he can afford
No *PRAISE* to thee but what in thee doth live.
.
. Sonnet 80
.
O, how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the *PRAISE* thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame!
.
. Sonnet 82
.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy *WORTH* a limit past my *PRAISE*,
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days
.
. Sonnet 83
.
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
Than both your poets can in *PRAISE* devise.
.
. Sonnet 84
.
Who is it that says most? which can say more
Than this rich *PRAISE*, that you alone are you?
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew.
.
. Sonnet 85
.
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
While comments of your *PRAISE*, richly compiled,
Reserve their character with golden quill
And precious phrase by all the Muses filed.
I think good thoughts whilst other write good words,
And like unletter'd clerk still cry 'Amen'
To EVERy hymn that able spirit affords
In polish'd form of well-refined pen.
Hearing you *PRAISED*, I say 'Tis so, 'tis TRUe,'
And to the most of *PRAISE* add something more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
Then others for the breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.
.
. Sonnet 95
.
That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making lascivious comments on thy sport,
Cannot dis*PRAISE* but in a kind of *PRAISE*;
Naming thy name blesses an ill report.
.
. Sonnet 98
.
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor *PRAISE* the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
.
. Sonnet 101
.
Because he needs no *PRAISE*, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so; for't lies in thee
To make him much outlive a gilded tomb,
And to be *PRAISED* of ages yet to be.
.
. Sonnet 103
.
Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more *WORTH*
Than when it hath my added *PRAISE* beside!
.
. Sonnet 106
.
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In *PRAISE* of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their *PRAISES* are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And, for they look'd but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your *WORTH* to sing:
For we, which now behold these present days,
Had eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to *PRAISE*.
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Digges commendatory poem to the 1640 edition of Poems:
Written by Wil. Shakespeare, Gent. (1623? - 1635):
.
. Vpon Master W ILLIAM S H A K E S P E A R E,
. the Deceased Authour, and his P O E M S .
.
But oh ! what *PRAISE* more powerfull can we give
The dead, then that by him the Kings men live,
His Players, which should they but have shar’d the Fate,
All else expir’d within the short Termes date;
.
Briefe, there is nothing in his wit fraught Booke,
Whose sound we would not heare, on whose *WORTH* looke
Like old coyned gold, whose lines in EVERy page,
Shall passe TRUe currant to succeeding age.
But why doe I dead Sheakspeares *PRAISE* recite,
Some second Shakespeare must of Shakespeare write;
For me tis needlesse, since an host of men,
Will pay to clap his *PRAISE*, to free my Pen.
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Epistle To The Great Variety of Readers from the First Folio, 1623
His mind and hand went together: And what he thought, he uttered with
that easinesse, that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his
papers. But it is not our province, who onely gather his works, and
give them you, to *PRAISE* him.
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. Passionate Pilgrim
.
All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;
Which is to me some *PRAISE*, that I thy parts admire:
Thine eye Jove's lightning seems, thy voice his dreadful thunder,
Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.
.
And to her will frame all thy ways;
Spare not to spend, and chiefly there
Where thy desert may merit *PRAISE*,
By ringing in thy lady's ear:
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Cupid, which doth *ASPIRE* ,
To be God of DESIRE,
Swears he gives laws;
That where his arrows hit,
Some joy, some sorrow it,
Fortune no cause. - E.O.
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What worldly wight can hope for heavenly hire,
When only sighs must make his secret moan ?
A silent suit doth seld *TO grace ASPIRE* ,
My hapless hap doth roll the restless stone.
Yet Phoebe fair disdained the heavens above,
To joy on earth her poor Endymion's love. - E.O
.
http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/oxfordpoems.htm
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_____. *AVERE* : *TO ASPIRE* (Latin)
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. The Rape of Lucrece. Stanza 1
.
. FROM the besieged Ardea all in post,
. Borne by the TRUstless wings of false DESIRE,
. Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the ROMAN HOST,
. And to Collatium bears the lightless fire
. Which, in pale embers hid, lurks *TO ASPIRE*
. And girdle with embracing flames the waist
. Of Collatine's fair love, Lucrece the chaste.
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. King Henry VI, Part iii. Act 1, Scene 1
.
KING HENRY VI : My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,
. Even in the chair of state: belike he means,
. Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer,
. *TO ASPIRE* unto the crown and reign as king.
. Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father.
. And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd revenge
. On him, his sons, his favourites and his friends.
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. Thomas Shelton's _Don Quixote_ Part 1.
.
The Fourth Book XX. Wherein Is Prosecuted the Manner of
Don Quixote’s Enchantment, with Other Famous Occurrences
.
‘A God’s name be it,’ quoth Don Quixote; ‘you shall therefore
understand, sir knight, that I am carried away enchanted in this cage,
through the *ENVY* and fraud of wicked magicians; for virtue is much
more persecuted of the wicked than honoured of the good. I am a
knight-errant; but none of those whose names are not recorded in the
books of fame, but one of those who, in despite of *ENVY* itself,
and of all the magicians of Persia, the Brahmins of India, or of
the Gymnosophists of Ethiopia, shall hang his name in the temple of
eternity, that it may serve as a model and pattern to ensuing ages,
wherein knights-errant may view the steps which they are to follow,
if they mean *TO ASPIRE* to the top and honourable height of arms.’
‘The knight Sir Don Quixote saith *TRUE*,’ quoth the curate, speaking
to the travellers, ‘that he is carried away in this chariot enchanted,
not through his own default or sins, but through the malignant
treachery of those to whom virtue is loathsome and valour odious.
This is, good sir, the Knight of the Sad Countenance (if you have
at any time heard speak of him), whose valorous acts shall remain
ensculped in stubborn brass and time-surviving marble, though
*ENVY* and malice do labour nEVER so much to obscure them.’
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. . King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2
.
CARDINAL WOLSEY : O, how wretched
. Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
. There is, betwixt that smile we would *ASPIRE TO* ,
. That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
. More pangs and *FEAR*s than wars or women have:
. And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
. NEVER to hope again.
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. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act 3, Scene 1
.
DUKE : Why, Phaeton,--for thou art Merops' son,--
. Wilt thou *ASPIRE* to guide the heavenly car
. And with thy daring folly burn the world?
. Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
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. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act 5, Scene 5
.
MISTRESS QUICKLY:
. Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in DESIRE!
. About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme;
. And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.
.
. SONG.
. Fie on sinful fantasy!
. Fie on lust and luxury!
. Lust is but a bloody fire,
. Kindled with unchaste DESIRE,
. Fed in heart, whose flames *ASPIRE*
. As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
. Pinch him, fairies, mutually;
. Pinch him for his villany;
. Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,
. Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
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. Pericles Prince of Tyre. Act 1, Scene 4
.
DIONYZA: That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;
. For who digs hills because they do *ASPIRE*
. Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.
. O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are;
. Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes,
. But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise.
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. Venus and Adonis. Stanza 23
'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
. Or, like a fairy, trip upon the GREEN,
. Or, like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair,
. Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen:
. Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
. Not gross to sink, but light, and will *ASPIRE*.
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. Mary Cheke --- WILLiam Cecil --- Mildred Cooke
________ | __ {Burghley} ___ |
________ | __ (1520-98) Anne Cecil---Edward dEVERe
________ | ____________ {Oxford}
________ | ___________ (1550-1604)
{Exeter} Thomas Cecil---Dorothy Neville
___ (1542-1622)_|
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Elizabeth DRURY---William Cecil{Exeter}--- Elizabeth MANNERS
_____________ | (1566-1640) (2nd cousin of ROGER)
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__ Elizabeth CECIL---Thomas Howard{Berkshire}
____________ | (1625-1669)
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. Elizabeth Cecil Howard --- JOHN DRYDEN
______________________ (1631-1700)
___________________ Poet Laureate (1668)
_________ {THE FATHER of Shakespeare Criticism &}
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/autobio.html
. {close relative of Jonathan Swift's grandmother}
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.W. Shakspere--- Mrs. DAVENANT _ |
. (1564-1616) | __________ V
_________ | ______ Thom. Swift--- Dryden
. WILLiam DAVENANT ----- ?? |
. (1606-1668) | /----------\
. Poet Laureate | | |
. 1638 daughter---Thom.Swift Jonathan---Abig. Erick
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________ Thom.Swift ________ Jonathan Swift
________ {Rector of PUTTENHAM} {Mr.Lemuel GulliVER}
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Jonathan Swift first job was secretary to Sir William TEMPLE.
Jonathan Swift wrote under the name [I]saac [B]ickerstaff.
I.B. are also the initials of: [I]ohn [B]enson & [I]ohn the [B]aptist
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