... King's Cause declined. . . following his old trade of teaching school he not only gained a comfortable subsistence (for the acting of plays was then silenced), but educated many ingenious youths who afterwards proved most eminent in divers faculties." PAGE 306.—Of Donne, Walton writes in his Life: "He was of stature moderately tall, of a straight and well-proportioned body; to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of comeliness. "The melancholy and pleasant humor were in him so tempered that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind. "His fancy was unimitably high, equalled only by his great wit; both being made useful by a commanding judgment. "His aspect was cheerful, and such as gave a silent testimony of a clear, knowing soul, and of a conscience at peace with itself. "He was a great lover of the offices of humanity, and of so merciful a spirit that he never beheld the miseries of mankind without pity and relief." And in An Elegie upon Dr. Donne: "Our Donne is dead; England should mourn, may sa, We had a man where language chose to stay And shew her graceful power. I would not praise That and his vast wit (which in these vain days I want abilities, fit to set forth A monument, great as Donne's matchless worth." PAGE 309.—"A great critic (Aikin) on songs," writes Burns to Mr. Thomson, in January, 1795, "says that love and wine are the exclusive themes for song-writing. The following ['For a' that and a' that'] is on neither subject, and consequently is no song, but will be allowed, I think, to be two or three pretty good, pure thoughts inverted into rhyme." PAGE 319. From Campion and Rosseter's Book of Airs. "In 1601," says Bullen in Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-Books, "Campion and Philip Rosseter published jointly A Book of Airs. The music was partly written by Campion and partly by Rosseter; but the whole of the poetry belongs to Campion." PAGE 332.-The gaiety and life of this old song foreran William of Orange in the graces of the London public about a year and a half, it having been published in 1687. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH (1807-1882). The Birds of Killingworth.... The Jewish Cemetery at Newport. 9 252 LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL (1819-1891). An Epistle to George William Curtis. 340 In an Album... 332 Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly.. 314 Oliphant, Caroline, Lady NAIRNE (1766–1845). 295 |