when they hanged Joe Brady, the invincible
Art Neuendorffer
The night before the Gettysburg Address:
<<Lincoln went to visit [Seward] carrying papers. It is assumed that
Lincoln wanted to go over his talk with Seward. . .Early the next
morning took a carriage to ride to the battle site. . . When
Lincoln rose, it was with a sheet or two from which he read.>>
- _Lincoln at Gettysburg_ by Garry Wills
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
XXII. Lincoln. § 15. Possible Influence of Seward.
<<Lincoln submitted his First Inaugural to [soon to be Secretary of
State William Henry] Seward. Several of Seward?s criticisms he accepted.
But never doubting that he was worth a dozen of the President in a
literary way, did not confine himself to criticism. He graciously
submitted a wholly new paragraph which Mr. Lincoln might,
if he cared to, use as peroration. It read:
"I close. We are not, we must not be, aliens or enemies, but fellow
countrymen and brethren. Although passion has strained our bonds of
affection too hardly, they must not, I am sure they will not, be broken.
The mystic chords which, proceeding from so many battlefields and so
many patriotic graves, pass through all the hearts and all hearths in
this broad continent of ours, will yet again harmonize in their ancient
music when breathed upon by the guardian angel of the nation." -- Seward
One of the most precious pages in the sealed story of Lincoln?s inner
life would contain his reflections as he pondered this paragraph. Deeply
as he knew the hearts of men, here?in spite of its lack of weight?was
something that hitherto he had not been able to use. The power of it in
affecting men he must have understood. If it could be brought within his
own instrument, assimilated to his own attitude, a new range would be
given to his effectiveness. Was he capable of assimilating it? We do not
know how he reasoned in this last artistic crisis; but we do know what
he did. He made Seward?s paragraph his own. Into the graceful but not
masterly?the half-way rhetorical?words of Seward he infused his own
quality. He reorganized their feeble pattern by means of his own
incomparable sense of rhythm. The result was the concluding
paragraph of the First Inaugural:
"I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be
enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds
of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battlefield and every patriot grave to every living heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus
of the Union when again touched as surely they will be,
by the better angels of our nature." -- Lincoln>>
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Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 4
MERCUTIO: O here's a wit of cheveril,
that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad!
ROMEO I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.
Act 3, Scene 3
FRIAR LAURENCE Hence from Verona art thou banished:
Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
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http://www.visitoruk.com/cleethorpes/villages/bradley.htm
The name Bradley means "broad wood or clearing", from
the Old English Brad+leah. [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary
of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].
The 13th-century church is dedicated to St.George.
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Ulysses
53.9: By Brady's cottages a boy for the skins lolled,
his bucket of offal linked,
107.11: Joe Brady and the rest of them.
Where Skin-the-goat drove the car.
108.37: And it turned out to be a commemoration postcard
of Joe Brady or Number One or Skin-the-Goat.
243.44: God's truth, says Alf. I heard that from the head warder
that was in Kilmainham when they hanged Joe Brady, the invincible.
475.10: old doctor Brady with stethoscope
595.6: Dr Francis Brady, Father Sebastian of Mount Argus,
614.1: till he got doctor Brady to give me the belladonna prescription
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The Life of Christopher MARLOWE
http://swc2.hccs.cc.tx.us/HTMLS/ROWHTML/faust/marlowe.htm
<<In 1587, MARLOWE received his M.A. and moved to London, where he
spent most of the rest of his life. The history of MARLOWE's remaining
six years of his life traces a series of violent clashes with the law.
By 1589 he was living in NORTON Folgate, near the theaters,
close to Thomas WATSON, the poet. In September, MARLOWE
and William BRADLEY fell to fighting in HOG Lane,
where upon WATSON came to MARLOWE's rescue. In the ensuring
brawl WATSON fatally stabbed BRADLEY. Though MARLOWE fled the
scene, both he and WATSON were imprisoned in Newgate, MARLOWE for
two weeks and WATSON for a longer time. On December 3, 1589 MARLOWE
& WATSON appeared for trial and discharged with a warning to keep the
peace. This he failed to do, for three years later he was summoned
to appear at the Middlesex sessions for assaulting two shoreditch
constables in Holleywell Street. The constables said that
they went in fear of their lives because of him. There is no
evidence that MARLOWE ever answered this particular charge.>>
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On the 26th of September 1592 [TH]omas [TAW]son was buried in the
church of St BARTHOLOMEW, and the following year his collection of 60
sonnets: _The Tears of Fancie, or Love Disdained_ (1593), was published.
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Venus and Adonis Stanza 48
Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long,
Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide,
High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:
Look, what a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
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Art Neuendorffer