tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76074929899009163942024-03-12T17:02:54.288-07:00The Daily Sir WalterBobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.comBlogger1044125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-15190373354437413602021-08-15T12:54:00.001-07:002021-08-15T12:54:10.684-07:00Scott 250Happy 250th birthday!
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BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-10411841729019040692020-08-15T17:41:00.007-07:002020-12-01T03:03:12.759-08:00365 Days and Counting<p>August 15 is a memorable date for at least two important 18th/19th century figures. Napoleon Buonaparte was born August 15, 1769, and Sir Walter Scott, who wrote a biography of the man, the same day in 1771. In between, and less celebrated, was French General Jean Sarrazin, born August 15, 1770; 365 days before Scott.</p><p>Buonaparte became Emperor of the French in 1804. Sir Walter Scott effectively invented the romantic historical novel. In between was a man who became a spy for the British, against Napoleon.</p><p>It is one year from the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth.</p><p><br /></p>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-87738103442850188072012-08-15T04:22:00.000-07:002012-08-15T04:22:05.267-07:001771
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’ve always enjoyed John
Buchan’s framing of the environment surrounding Edinburgh in the year 1771.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first three paragraphs say so much in a
brief space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walter Scott, of course,
was born on August 15, 1771.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Buchan’s
biography “Sir Walter Scott”:</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘Antecedants</span></u></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
the autumn of the year 1771 an Edinburgh citizen, returning after many years'
absence, would have noted certain changes in his native city. If, on the
morning after his arrival at the White Horse Inn in the Canongate, he had
ascended to the high places of the Castle hill, and looked north and east, he
would have missed one familiar landmark. The Nor' Loch, his haunt on youthful
holidays and the odorous grave of city refuse, had been drained, and its bed
was now grass and shingle. Across the hollow which once had held its waters a
huge mound of earth had been thrown, giving access to the distant fields.
Farther east, another crossing was in process of making, a bridge to carry a
broad highway. Before he had left home the Canongate had burst its bonds into
New Street and St John Street, and he noted that the city had spilled itself
farther southward beyond the South Bridge of the Cowgate into new streets and
squares. But now the moat of the Nor' Loch was spanned, and on its farther
shore building had begun according to the plans of the ingenious Mr Craig. He
had heard much of these plans that morning in Lucky Boyd's hostelry—of how a
new Register House, with the Adam brothers as architects, and paid for out of
the forfeited Jacobite estates, was designed to rise at the end of the new
bridge. And the spectator, according as he was a lover of old things or an
amateur of novelties, would have sighed or approved. The little city, strung
from the Castle to Holyroodhouse along her rib of hill, where more history had
been made than in any place of like size save Athens, Rome and Jerusalem—which,
according to the weather and the observer's standpoint, looked like a flag
flung against the sky or a ship riding by the shore—was enlarging her bounds
and entering upon a new career. </span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Another
sight of some significance was to be had in the same year at the same season.
From every corner of the north droves of black cattle were converging on
Falkirk moor for the great autumn Tryst. It was the clearing-house of the
Highlands, as Stagshawbank on the Tyne was the clearing-house of Scotland. The
drover from Glen Affric, herding his kyloes among the autumn bracken, could see
from his bivouac a cloud of dark smoke on the banks of the Carron river, and
hear by day and night the clang of hammers. This was the Carron Ironworks, now
eleven years old, and a canal was being made from Grangemouth-on-Forth to carry
their products to the world. There, within sight of the Highland Line, a
quarter of a century after a Jacobite army had campaigned on that very ground,
the coal and iron of the Scottish midlands were being used in a promising
industry. Cannon were being made for many nations, and the Carron pipes and
sugar-boilers and fire-grates were soon to be famous throughout the land. The
Highland drover, already perplexed by the intrusion of Lowland sheep on his
hills and the cutting of his native woods by English companies, saw in the
flame and smoke of the ironworks a final proof that his ancient world was
crumbling. </span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There
was a third portent, the most pregnant of all, which our returned exile, if he
were a man of some education, had a chance of noting. He had heard with
pleasure during his absence a rumour of good literature coming from the north.
The London critics had spoken well of Mr David Hume's works in history and
philosophy, of Mr Robertson's excursions in the former domain, of Mr Ferguson's
treatise on civil society, and of the poetry of Mr Beattie of Aberdeen, while
visitors had reported the surpassing eloquence of Mr Hugh Blair of the High
Kirk of St Giles'. Our traveller, when he had access to these famous men, found
that Edinburgh had indeed become a home of brilliant talk and genial
company—Edinburgh with her endless taverns where entertainment was cheap, since
the Forth at the door gave her oysters, and sound claret was to be had at
eighteen shillings a dozen. Around the tavern board or the dinner-table he
found the illuminati good Scotsmen, speaking the tongue he fondly remembered,
and perpetuating the tales and humours of his youth. But their public
performance surprised him, for it was a sedulous aping of London. They strove
without much success to acquire an English accent, and Mr Adam Smith was envied
because Balliol had trimmed the roughness of his Fife tongue. They cultivated a
thing called rhetoric, which was supposed to be a canonical use of language
freed from local vulgarities, and in the shabby old college Mr Hugh Blair
lectured on that dismal science with much acceptance. In their writings they
laboriously assisted each other to correct the solecisms of the northern idiom,
and a year or two later, when David Hume lay on his death-bed, it was the jest
of a caustic Lord of Session that the philosopher confessed not his sins but
his Scotticisms. </span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So
our restored exile may have regarded the scene with mingled feelings. His
countrymen beyond doubt had their heads at last above water, but the land they
were making for was not the kindly soil he had known. …</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Family of Buccleuch</span></u></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From
the family of Buccleuch there was an early offshoot, called first of Sinton and
then of Harden, whose tower still stands in a dark nook of Borthwick water. The
Scotts of Harden were scarcely less noted in the Border wars than the parent
house, and they produced such figures of ballad and folk story as Auld Wat of
Harden, who in 1567 married Mary Scott, the "Flower of Yarrow," and
his son William, who espoused the daughter of Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank, the
"Muckle Mou'd Meg," of a tale which is probably apocryphal. The third
son of this William of Harden became laird of Raeburn, and his wife was a
MacDougal of Makerstoun, of a family which has some claim to be the oldest in
Scotland. This Walter Scott was a Whig and a Quaker, but his sons walked in
other paths, for his eldest fell in <span class="pagenum">{22}</span> a duel, and
the second, Walter, was known on Teviotside as Beardie, from the great beard
which he allowed to grow in token of his regret for the banished Stuarts.
Beardie, after narrowly escaping the gallows on account of his politics, married
a kinswoman of the Campbells of Blythswood, and in his old age had some repute
for learning. His second son took to sheep-farming, and leased the farm of
Sandy Knowe from the Scotts of Harden, after staking all his fortune on the
purchase of a hunter, which he fortunately sold for double the price he gave.
He prospered, and made a great name on the Border as a judge of stock. His wife
was a Haliburton of Newmains, who brought to the family the right of burial in
Dryburgh Abbey. The sheep-farmer's eldest son, Walter, forsook the family
pursuits and, first of his race, settled in a town and adopted a learned
profession, for he became a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, the highest
stage in Scotland of the solicitor's calling. His wife was Anne Rutherford, the
eldest daughter of the professor of medicine in the University, and with her
came into the blood two other ancient strains. For the Rutherfords had been
longer settled on the Border than the Scotts, and her mother was a Swinton of
that ilk, one of the most sounding names in early Scottish history, and a
descendant of Ben Jonson's friend, the poet Earl of Stirling. </span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Scott’s
Ancestry</span></u></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So
much for the details of pedigree. The child born in August, 1771, to Anne
Rutherford and Walter Scott at the head of the College Wynd, had a more varied
ancestry than falls to the lot of most men. No doubt the ancestry of all of us
is oddly mixed, but in his case the record was known. He was linked
collaterally through the Buccleuchs with the greater <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">noblesse</span>. He had behind him the most historic of the Border
stocks in Scott and Murray and Rutherford and Swinton. He had Celtic blood from
MacDougal and Campbell. Of the many painted shields on the ceiling of the hall
at Abbotsford which enshrine his pedigree, only three lack a verified heraldic
cognizance. Among his forbears were saints and sinners, scholars and sportsmen
and <span class="pagenum">{23}</span> men-at-arms, barons and sheep-farmers,
divines and doctors of medicine, Whigs and Jacobites, Cavaliers and Quakers.
Above all he had that kindest bequest of the good fairies at his cradle, a
tradition, bone of his bone, of ancient pastoral, of a free life lived among
clear waters and green hills as in the innocency of the world. …’</span></i><br />
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Constitution of Man” died on August 14, 1858.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Combe’s work, which was published in Walter Scott’s lifetime (1828),
downplays the role of religion and philosophy in human behavior, in favor of
physical characteristics of the human skull.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Scott on aspects of the legal profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Charles Gibbon’s “The Life
of George Combe: Author of “The Constitution of Man”:</span></div>
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<i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">" </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In Sir Walter Scott's autobiography,
just published<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by John Gibson </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Lockart,
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">his son-in-law, Sir Walter
states various reasons for declining an offer made to him by his father to
become his partner as a writer to the signet, to which profession Sir Walter
had served an apprenticeship with his father, and for preferring the bar, the
import of which is disparaging to the inferior branch of the profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not know what might be the
relative<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>character in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moral<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and intellectual respectability of writers to the signet and advocates
in Sir Walter's day, but I know what they have been in mine, and I am twenty
years his junior, and I differ considerably from his estimate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The points on which there can be no dispute
are, that the gentlemen of the bar have by their education and professional
practice greater knowledge of composition, written and oral, more comprehensive
views of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">principles </span>of law;
and greater talents of reasoning, than the writers to the signet </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">; </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and if Sir Walter had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>confined himself to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>claim<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of superiority it would
have been undoubtedly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well founded.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But
he insinuates that the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">morale, </span>of
the attorney is inferior to that of the barrister, and to this I demur.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">" </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
Scotland, writers to the signet are employed in various branches. Some act
chiefly as agents in litigations. These are the men with whom the barristers
come chiefly into contact</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">; </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and
as litigation is a warfare in which victory is contended for at all hazards,
within the limits of the rules prescribed by the law and by the forms of court,
it is naturally to be supposed that the most adroit, energetic, and able
combatant will be preferred by those who need to hire a champion…’</span></i></div>
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Scott’s death, author William Scott, in “The Harmony of Phrenology with
Scripture..” invokes Sir Walter’s name in refuting Combe’s phrenological theories:</span></div>
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<span class="gstxthlt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘…Sir
Walter Scott </span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">did
not avail himself <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>the lights <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>Phrenology, yet his representations <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>character are, in many cases, such as no phrenologist
could presume to mend. These are but two instances out <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>many.
Various others might be cited, among our dramatists, poets, historians, and
moralists, <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>writers who possessed an intuitive
perception <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>the motives and springs <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>human action, and whose analysis <span class="gstxthlt">of
</span>mental feelings agrees almost entirely with that which would be given by
a phrenologist. Almost the only exceptions to this among our great writers,
occur in the case <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>the metaphysicians; and the
reason seems to be, that they have studied human nature in their closets, and
not in the world. But many <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>our eminent divines,
in their sermons and other compositions, shew a thorough practical knowledge <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>the human heart; and sometimes<span class="gtxtbody">
hold up a glass, in which the sinner may see his character portrayed with
fearful accuracy. Upon the whole, therefore, I am inclined to anticipate, that
when Phrenology has been brought to a higher state </span><span class="gstxthlt">of
</span><span class="gtxtbody">cultivation than it has hitherto reached, there
will be found much less difference between the views which it offers, and those
which have been hitherto entertained by men </span><span class="gstxthlt">of </span><span class="gtxtbody"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">practical good sense, </span>than
Mr </span><span class="gstxthlt">Combe </span><span class="gtxtbody">seems to
suppose. That it will prove </span><span class="gstxthlt">of </span><span class="gtxtbody">essential benefit to society I entertain not the least doubt;
but that it will ever, as he supposes, reach to revolutionize, reform, and
regenerate the world, I look upon to be a dream as vain and unsubstantial as
the wildest chimeras </span><span class="gstxthlt">of </span><span class="gtxtbody">the alchemists…’</span></span></i></div>
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to Mrs. Hunt’s, where I left my wife, and I to walk a little in St. James’s
Park, while Mrs. Harper might come home, with whom we came to speak about her
kinswoman Jane Gentleman to come and live with us as a chamber mayde, and there
met with Mr. Hoole my old acquaintance of Magdalen, and walked with him an hour
in the Parke, discoursing chiefly of Sir Samuel Morland, whose lady is gone
into France. It seems he buys ground and a farm in the country, and lays out
money upon building, and God knows what! so that most of the money he sold his
pension of 500l. per annum for, to Sir Arthur Slingsby, is believed is gone. It
seems he hath very great promises from the King, and Hoole hath seen some of
the King’s letters, under his own hand, to Morland, promising him great things
(and among others, the order of the Garter, as Sir Samuel says); but his lady
thought it below her to ask any thing at the King’s first coming, believing the
King would do it of himself, when as Hoole do really think if he had asked to
be Secretary of State at the King’s first coming, he might have had it. And the
other day at her going into France, she did speak largely to the King herself,
how her husband hath failed of what his Majesty had promised, and she was sure
intended him; and the King did promise still, as he is a King and a gentleman,
to be as good as his word in a little time, to a tittle: but I never believe it…’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Being appointed to The order of the Garter would have
been quite an honor for Samuel Morland, or anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morland entered Charles II’s service due to
his work in the field of espionage, and his development of cryptography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Morland was an associate of Samuel Pepys, whose diary is the source of today's post (August 13th).</span></span></div>
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<span class="gstxthlt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘Scott
</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">had been for some time under an <span class="gstxthlt">engagement
</span>to meet <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>Marquis <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>Abercorn
at Carlisle, in <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>first week <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>August, for <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>transaction
<span class="gstxthlt">of </span>some business connected with his brother
Thomas's late administration <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>that nobleman's
Scottish affairs; and he had designed to pass from Drumlanrig to Carlisle for
this purpose, without going back to Abbotsford. In consequence <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>these repeated harassments, however, he so far altered
his plans as to cut short his stay at Drumlanrig, and turn homewards for two or
three days, where James Ballantyne met him with such a statement as in some
measure relieved his mind.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He then proceeded to
fulfil his engagement with Lord Abercorn, whom he encountered travelling in a
rather peculiar style between Carlisle and Longtown. <span class="gstxthlt">The </span>ladies
<span class="gstxthlt">of the </span>family and <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>household
occupied four or five carriages, all drawn by <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>Marquis's
own horses, while <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>noble Lord himself brought up
<span class="gstxthlt">the </span>rear, mounted on horseback, and decorated with <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>ribbon <span class="gstxthlt">of the order of the
Garter. </span>On meeting <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>cavalcade, <span class="gstxthlt">Scott </span>turned with them, and he was not a little amused
when they reached <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>village <span class="gstxthlt">of
</span>Longtown, which he had ridden through an hour or two before, with <span class="gstxthlt">the preparations </span>which he found there made for <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>dinner <span class="gstxthlt">of the </span>party. <span class="gstxthlt">The </span>Marquis's major-domo and cook had arrived there at an
early hour in <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>morning, and everything was now
arranged for his reception in <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>paltry little
public-house, as nearly as possible in <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>style
usual in his own lordly mansions. <span class="gstxthlt">The </span>ducks and
geese that had been dabbling three or four hours ago in <span class="gstxthlt">the
</span>village-pond were now ready to make their appearance under numberless
disguises as <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">entrees; </span>a regular
<span class="gstxthlt">bill-of-fare </span>flanked <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>noble
Marquis's allotted cover; every huckaback towel in <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>place
had been pressed to do service as a napkin; and, that <span class="gstxthlt">nothing
</span>might be wanting to <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>mimicry <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>splendour, <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>landlady's
poor remnants <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>crockery and pewter had been
furbished up, and mustered in solemn <span class="gstxthlt">order </span>on a
crazy old beauffet, which was to represent a sideboard worthy <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>Lucullus. I think it worth while to preserve this
anecdote, which <span class="gstxthlt">Scott </span>delighted in telling, as
perhaps <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>last relic <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>a
style <span class="gstxthlt">of </span>manners now passed away, and never likely
to be revived among us...’</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… Home
to dinner, where Pelling dines with us, and brings some partridges, which is
very good meat; and, after dinner, I, and wife, and Mercer, and Deb., to the
Duke of York’s house, and saw “Mackbeth,” to our great content, and then home,
where the women went to the making of my tubes, and I to the office, and then
come Mrs. Turner and her husband to advise about their son, the Chaplain, who
is turned out of his ship, a sorrow to them, which I am troubled for, and do
give them the best advice I can, and so they gone we to bed.’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That lover of the theater Samuel Pepys saw “Macbeth” this
day, 344 years ago (per his diary).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shakesperian scholar William J. Rolfe, draws on writing from Walter Scott to show that Shakespeare’s
use of material about Macbeth was not especially <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>historically accurate. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘Shakespeare
drew the materials for the plot of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Macbeth</span>
from Holinshed's <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Chronicles of
Englande, Scotlande, and Ireland</span>, the first edition of which was issued
in 1577, and the second (which was doubtless the one the poet used) in 1586-87….Although,
as Knight remarks, "the interest of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Macbeth</span>
is not an <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">historical</span>
interest," so that it matters little whether the action is true or has
been related as true, I may add, for the benefit of my younger readers, that
the story of the drama is almost wholly apocryphal. The more authentic history
is thus summarized by Sir Walter Scott:</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"Duncan,
by his mother Beatrice a grandson of Malcolm II, succeeded to the throne on his
grandfather's death, in 1033: he reigned only six years. Macbeth, his near
relation, also a grandchild of Malcolm II, though by the mother's side, was
stirred up by ambition to contest the throne with the possessor. The Lady of
Macbeth also, whose real name was Graoch, had deadly injuries to avenge on the
reigning prince. She was the granddaughter of Kenneth IV, killed 1003, fighting
against Malcolm II, and other causes for revenge animated the mind of her who
has been since painted as the sternest of women. The old annalists add some
instigations of a supernatural kind to the influence of a vindictive woman over
an ambitious husband. Three women, of more than human stature and beauty,
appeared to Macbeth in a dream or vision, and hailed him successively by the
titles of Thane of Cromarty, Thane of Moray, which the king afterwards bestowed
on him, and finally by that of King of Scots; this dream, it is said, inspired
him with the seductive hopes so well expressed in the drama...'</span></i><br />
BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-41769196577455524552012-08-10T08:28:00.002-07:002012-08-10T08:28:50.989-07:00Vasa<br />
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Dalgetty served during the Thirty Years’ War, built a navy to patrol the Baltic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Vasa was to serve at sea, joining land efforts
of men such as Dalgetty in this same war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many know the story, of how this top-heavy vessel sank, minutes into its
maiden voyage, on August 10, 1628.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Vasa Museum in Stockholm, it is well worth the trip (Link: http://www.vasamuseet.se/en/The-Ship/ ).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Adolphus (Gustavus II of Sweden) was a member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott met Prince
Gustav of Vasa, who is descended from a different line than Gustavus Adolphus, when
that prince resided in Edinburgh, in 1820.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From John Gibson Lockhart’s “Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott”:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘…In
a letter, already quoted, there occurs some mention of the Prince Gustavus <span class="gstxthlt">Vasa, </span>who was spending this winter in Edinburgh, and his
Royal Highness's accomplished attendant, the Baron Poller. I met them
frequently in Castle Street, and remember as especially interesting the first
evening that they dined there. The only portrait in Scott's Edinburgh
dining-room was one of Charles XII. of Sweden, and he was struck, as indeed
every one must have been, with the remarkable resemblance which the exiled
Prince's air and features presented to the hero of his race. Young Gustavus, on
his part, hung with keen and melancholy enthusiasm on Scott's anecdotes of the
expedition of Charles Edward Stuart. — The Prince, accompanied by <span class="gstxthlt">Scott </span>and myself, witnessed the ceremonial of the
proclamation of King George IV. on the 2d of February at the cross of
Edinburgh, from a window over Mr Constable's shop in the High Street; and on
that occasion also, the air of sadness that mixed in his features with eager
curiosity, was very affecting. <span class="gstxthlt">Scott </span>explained all
the details to him, not without many lamentations over the barbarity of Auld
Reekie Bailies, who had removed the beautiful Gothic Cross itself, for the sake
of widening the thoroughfare. The weather was fine, the sun shone bright; and
the antique tabards of the heralds, the trumpet notes of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">God sate the King, </span>and the hearty
cheerings of the immense uncovered multitude that filled the noble old street,
produced altogether a scene of great splendour and solemnity. The Royal Exile
surveyed it with a flushed cheek and a watery eye; and <span class="gstxthlt">Scott,
</span>observing his emotion, withdrew with me to another window,
whispering—" Poor lad! poor lad! God help him." Later in the season,
the Prince spent a few days at Abbotsford…’</span></i></div>
BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-30846990081546484942012-08-07T00:07:00.000-07:002012-08-07T00:07:00.788-07:00Conventicles<br />
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we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for
being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to
God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched!...’</span></i></div>
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a source of physical and legal dispute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earlier
in 1664, Pepys wrote about what became the Conventicle Act of 1664.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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13 May 1664</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… In
the Painted Chamber I heard a fine conference between some of the two Houses
upon the Bill for Conventicles. The Lords would be freed from having their
houses searched by any but the Lord Lieutenant of the County; and upon being
found guilty, to be tried only by their peers; and thirdly, would have it
added, that whereas the Bill says, “That that, among other things, shall be a
conventicle wherein any such meeting is found doing any thing contrary to the
Liturgy of the Church of England,” they would have it added, “or practice.” The
Commons to the Lords said, that they knew not what might hereafter be found out
which might be called the practice of the Church of England; for there are many
things may be said to be the practice of the Church, which were never
established by any law, either common, statute, or canon; as singing of psalms,
binding up prayers at the end of the Bible, and praying extempore before and
after sermon: and though these are things indifferent, yet things for aught
they at present know may be started, which may be said to be the practice of
the Church which would not be fit to allow….’</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘…But
this modified degree of zeal by no means gratified the more ardent and rigid
Covenanters, by whom the stooping to act under the Indulgence was accounted a
compromise with the Malignants —a lukewarm and unacceptable species of worship,
resembling salt which had lost its savour. Many, therefore, held the indulged
clergy as a species of king's curates ; and rather than listen to their
doctrines, which they might have heard in safety, followed into the wilderness
those bold and daring preachers, whose voices thundered forth avowed opposition
and defiance against the mighty of the earth. The Indulged were accused of
meanly adopting Erastian opinions, and acknowledging the dependence and
subjection of the Church to the civil magistrate,—a doctrine totally alien from
the character of the Presbyterian religion. The elevated wish of following the
religion of their choice, in defiance of danger and fear, and their animosity
against a government by whom they had been persecuted, induced the more zealous
Presbyterians to prefer<span class="gtxtbody"> a </span><span class="gstxthlt">conventicle
</span><span class="gtxtbody">to their parish church; and a congregation -where
the hearers attended in arms to defend themselves, to a more peaceful meeting,
when, if surprised, they might save themselves by submission or night. Hence
these conventicles became frequent, at which the hearers attended with weapons.
The romantic and dangerous character of this species of worship recommended it
to such as were constitutionally bold and high-spirited; and there were others,
who, from the idle spirit belonging to youth, liked better to ramble through
the country as the life-guard to some outlawed preacher, than to spend the six
days of the week in ordinary labour, and attend their own parish church on the
seventh, to listen to the lukewarm doctrine of an Indulged minister…’</span></span></i></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-86747293763354104962012-08-06T00:06:00.000-07:002012-08-06T00:06:00.230-07:00More on Ben Jonson<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘…It is impossible to
see Hawthornden, and mention its poetical owner [William Drummond], without
thinking upon the time when</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"<span class="gstxthlt">Jonson </span>sate in Drummond's social shade."</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-"journey
into Scotland song,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">With
all the adventurers."</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And from thence it is with anxiety that we find ourselves
urged upon something like a controversy with the learned, acute, and ingenious
editor of Jonson's works, who, in his zeal to do full justice to his subject,
has, we think, uttered some undue injury to the memory of Drummond. The attempt
has indeed been prohibited to us, under a heavy denunciation. We presume,
nevertheless, in all honourable courtesy, to take up the gage which is thus
thrown down, and venture the following remarks on the memorable interview of
Drummond of Hawthornden and the great English dramatist, and the brief account
which the former has left of the manners and opinions of <span class="gstxthlt">Ben
Jonson. </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That <span class="gstxthlt">Ben Jonson </span>did Drummond
the distinguished honour of visiting Scotland, partly with a view of spending
some time with a man whom he esteemed—that he accordingly lived about three
weeks at Hawthornden, and was gratified by Drummond's hospitality—that they
parted friends, and remained in an amicable intercourse until death—are facts
on which all are agreed; as also, that in the shape of loose memoranda,
Drummond has preserved some severe censures passed by <span class="gstxthlt">Jonson
</span>upon other poets, and added a very unfa<span class="gtxtbody1">vourable
picture of the dramatist's self-opinion, as well as of his intemperance, his
literary jealousies and peculiarities, the laxity of his speculative opinions,
and other foibles which darkened his great qualities. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hinc iliae lachrymae. </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These scraps of information, for they are nothing more,
may be considered in two points of view, as they affect the character of <span class="gstxthlt">Jonson, </span>or that of Drummond; in other words, as they
contain truth with respect to the former, or as they infer malice and calumny
(whether in themselves true or false) on the part of him who recorded them.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On the first point, it is not easy to discover Mr.
Gifford's opinion. He seems to receive as truth what circumstances Drummond has
narrated concerning Jonson's birth, parentage, and earlier adventures; and far
from doubting the accuracy of his report concerning Jonson's criticisms on
contemporary authors, he only regrets that they are not sufficiently detailed.
It is therefore apparently only where Drummond bears testimony to Jonson's
failings, that the editor, in laudable zeal for the honour of his author, is
disposed to impugn his testimony…’</span></i></div>
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covered last year, as well. But he certainly deserves additional coverage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this post, we bring in Scott’s discussion
of a friendship between Jonson and Scottish poet William Drummond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The text above comes from “Provincial
Antiquities of Scotland”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The English
dramatist died on August 6<sup>th</sup>, 1637.</span></div>
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incident known as the Gowrie Conspiracy, involving the Ruthven brothers, John,
the 3<sup>rd</sup> Earl of Gowrie, and Alexander, took place in Perth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In “The History of Scotland”, Walter Scott
devotes a fair amount of acreage to this episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The action of the story, per Scott, is below. There is more to enjoy in Scott's history.</span></div>
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a young man of great hopes, and both were considered as possessing a share of
the king's favour. Learned, handsome, young, and active, they belonged to the
class of men which most readily attracted the king's notice; and, generous,
brave, and religious to a degree not common with men so young, they were the
darlings of the people. Alexander Ruthven was made a gentleman of the
bed-chamber; one of his sisters advanced to be a chief attendant upon the
queen; a considerable post in the government was designed for Gowrie himself;
and no house in the kingdom appeared more flourishing, at the very time when a
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Falkland, had taken horse at daybreak to follow his favourite exercise of
stag-hunting, he was joined by Alexander Ruthven, who requested a private
audience, and communicated to James, as they rode together, apart from the
other huntsmen, a story of a most extraordinary kind. He had been, he said,
walking near his brother's house at Perth, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">when,
in a retired spot, he encountered a fellow of a down-looking aspect, and
altogether suspicious in his appearance, who was wrapt in a cloak, and seemed
desirous to escape observation. Ruthven continued, that, conceiving it his duty
to lay hands on this man, he had, in doing so, discovered on this person a
large pot full of gold pieces of foreign coinage. He then deemed it his duty,
he said, to carry the stranger to his brother's castle, and privately imprison
him, in a remote apartment, in order that his majesty might have the earliest
information upon a subject so extraordinary; he urged the king, therefore, to
ride with him instantly to his brother, the Earl of Gowrie's castle, in the
town of Perth, examine the captive himself and secure the treasure for his own
royal use. The king replied, that he saw no reason why the man should not be
regularly examined by the magistrates of Perth, of whom the Earl of Gowrie was provost.
This proceeding young Ruthven eagerly opposed : alleging the necessity that a
matter so mysterious should be subjected to the king's own scrutiny, so much
deeper than that of any subject, and stating eagerly the risk of the treasure
being embezzled, if<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span>any
inferior person was to be trusted with the examination. He, therefore,
repeatedly urged James instantly to ride with him to Perth; and this in a
manner so hurried and vehement, that the king was induced to ask some of his
attendants whether Ruthven had ever been known to be affected with fits of
insanity: they replied, that they had never known him, save as a sober and
sensible young man. Reassured by this information, feeling, it may be supposed,
the compliment paid to his superior wisdom, and desirous to secure a windfall
which did not often come in his way, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James agreed that as soon as he had seen the
buck killed he would accompany Alexander Ruthven to Perth, and examine the
prisoner.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the whole chase, which was a short one,
Ruthven hung upon the king, and at every opportunity which it afforded plied
him with earnest importunity to set out upon his journey. It must be observed,
that a person named Andrew Henderson, a dependant upon the Earl of Gowrie, and
whose part in this affair is not the least extraordinary in the whole mystery,
was then at a distance in attendance upon Alexander Ruthven, who, after his
conferences with the king, ordered Henderson to ride back with the utmost speed
to Perth, and announce to the Earl of Gowrie that the king was coming
immediately to Gowrie House with a small company. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henderson reached Perth about ten o'clock in
the morning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So soon as ever the earl
saw him, he came apart from the persons with whom he was speaking, and inquired
secretly what tidings he had brought him from his brother Alexander. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henderson delivered the message which he had
received from Mr. Ruthven; adding, he had no letter to his brother, which the
Earl of Gowrie seemed to have expected. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henderson
then asked what service his lordship had for him to do, who, within an hour
afterwards, bid him put on his armour, as he had a Highlander to take prisoner in
the town of Perth. It does not appear that the Earl of Gowrie at this time made
any preparation to receive the king, although apprised of his approach, nor did
he even put off the service of his own dinner until that of his majesty should
be provided. On the contrary, he proceeded to his own meal, with one or two
chance guests who happened to be in the castle, at the usual hour of half past
twelve o'clock. Their dinner was scarcely finished, when notice was given of
the king's near approach.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Upon the death of the stag, the king fulfilled his promise
of riding to Perth with Mr. Ruthven, but before this, which is material, by-the-bye,
to the evidence of the case, he communicated to the Duke of Lennox the story of
the treasure which had been found. The duke replied, he did not think the tale
a likely one. In consequence, perhaps, of this communication, the- duke, the Earl
of Mar, and a small train of gentlemen, followed the king to Perth. They were
met by the Earl of Gowrie, who, although he appeared surprised at the visit,
conducted him to his mansion, a large Gothic building; walled in and defended by
towers, and having a garden or pleasure ground which extended straight down to
the river Tay. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The king, according to
etiquette, dined by himself. Lord Lennox, the Earl of Mar, and his train, had
their repast served in another apartment. The dinner was cold and ill-arranged;
and everything had the air of haste and precipitation which need not have
existed had the Earl of Gowrie been disposed to avail himself of the timely
information which he had received from Henderson. The conduct of the
entertainer himself was cold, abstracted, and unequal, unlike to that expected
from a subject who is honoured with the presence of his sovereign as a guest.
When the king had dined, he good-humouredly reminded the Earl of Gowrie that he
ought to go into the next room and drink a cup of welcome to the lords and
gentlemen of his train. Gowrie did so; and upon his leaving the room, his
brother Alexander whispered to the king that this was the fitting time to
inquire into the business of the prisoner and the money pot. The king was,
apparently, not altogether void of suspicion, though probably it extended no
farther than a floating idea that Ruthven, whose tale and conduct were so
extraordinary, might possibly, after all, be distracted. He had, therefore, in
the course of their journey to Perth, privately desired the Duke of Lennox to
take notice where he should pass with Alexander Ruthven, and to follow him. But
as they were in separate chambers, the duke had no opportunity to observe the
charge given to him.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alexander Ruthven conducted the king from chamber to
chamber, until he introduced him into a large gallery, at the angles of which
were two rounds or turrets, which gave room, as is usual in such buildings, the
one to a small closet or cabinet, the other to a private passage called a
turnpike stair. On Ruthyen's opening that which constituted a cabinet, the king
discovered, to his surprise, a man not bound or captive, but armed and at
liberty.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This was Henderson, already mentioned, whom the brothers had
employed in their plan, though they had not deemed it safe to trust him with
its purpose. His deposition bore, that after his return from Falkland, and his
assuming his armour by the earl's orders, Gowrie had asked him for the key of
the gallery-chamber. It was not at first to be found, so little were things
prepared for an attempt so dangerous. Being at length-found, the earl commanded
Henderson to go there, and to act as he should be directed by his brother
Alexander. Henderson obeyed with the unresisting and ready submission of a
vassal of the time; and Ruthven planted him in the<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span>little cabinet in which he was found, and locked him in. These
preparations made, the man became afraid where all this might end. Left alone
in the cabinet, he prayed to God to guard him from approaching evil; and after
waiting about half an hour, Ruthven and the king appeared. The account of the
extraordinary scene which followed rests upon the evidence of the king and Henderson.
They agree in the main, but differ in several minute particulars. This is in n
way surprising. Upon scarce any occasion do the witnesses of a perturbed,
violent, and agitating scene agree minutely in narrating what has passed before
for their eyes; and there often exist circumstances of discrepancy much more
remarkable than any that occur in the present case, which, nevertheless, are
not considered as affecting the general truth and consistency of the evidence.
The truth is, that the surprise or shock which the mind receives when
individual witnesses anything very extraordinary have an operation in
preventing exact circumstantial recollection of what has passed, and the witness,
insensibly on his own part, is, in the detail of minute particulars, extremely
apt to substitute the suggestions of imagination for those of recollection. There
may be also seen, in the varieties of the king's declaration and the evidence
of Henderson, a desire on the part of each to set his own conduct in the best
point of view; Henderson taking the merit of assisting the king in one or two
instances, where James ascribes his safety to his own personal exertions.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The outline of the fact is this: So soon as Ruthven and the
king entered the cabinet, the former <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>exchanged
the deference of a subject for the demeanor of an<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> </span>assassin: he threw his hat upon his head, snatched a dagger
from the side of Andrew Henderson, and placing the point to the king's breast,
said, "Sir, you must be my prisoner:—think on my father's death; Henderson
pushed the weapon aside: as the king attempted to speak, Ruthven replied,
"Hold your tongue, or, by heaven, you shall
die:"—"Alexander," replied the king, "think upon our
intimacy, and remember, that at the time of your father's death I was but a minor,
and the council might have done any thing they pleased:—even should you slay me
you cannot possess the crown: for I have both sons and daughters, and friends,
and faithful subjects, who will not leave my death unavenged."—Ruthven replied,
by swearing that he neither sought the king's life nor blood.— What, then, is
it you demand?" said the king.—"It is but a promise," answered the
conspirator, who seems to have been irresolute, or intimidated.—"What
promise?" demanded James; and added, with becoming spirit, "What
though you were to take off your hat."—" My brother will tell you,''
replied Ruthven, uncovering, in obedience to the king's command.—" Fetch
him hither," said the king. And Ruthven, having first taken James's word
that he would not open the window or raise any alarm, left him, in order, as he
pretended, to seek his brother, although, as Henderson says, he thinks that Ruthven
never stirred from the gallery. He retired, most probably, only with the
purpose of fortifying his own failing resolution, or preparing the means of
binding the king. During his absence, the king demanded of Henderson how he
came there. “As I live," answered the poor man, much alarmed by all that
had passed in his presence, "I was shut up here like a dog." The king
then asked if the Ruthvens would do him any injury. "As I live,"
answered Henderson, "I will die ere I witness it." The king, finding
this person at his command, desired him to open the window of the turret. It
had two, one of which looked down towards the castle garden and the river side,
the other to the court-yard in front of the castle. The king, with the presence
of mind which he seems to have maintained during the whole transaction, seeing
that Henderson opened the former of those windows, from which no alarm could be
given, called out that he undid the wrong window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henderson was going to the other, when
Ruthven again entered, with a garter in his hand, and laid violent hands upon
his majesty, declaring there was no remedy. James, replying with indignation
that he was a free prince, and would not be bound, resisted Ruthven manfully,
and, though much inferior to him in strength and stature, had rather the better
of the struggle. Henderson, who appears to have been confounded with terror,
and divided betwixt his respect for the king and for his feudal lord, took no
part in the struggle, otherwise than by snatching the garter from Ruthven's
hand, and, as he says, Alexander's hand from the king's mouth. Ruthven had
expected his co-operation, for he exclaimed, "Wo worthy thee! is there no
help in thee?" Mean time the king, by violent exertion, dragged the
conspirator as far as the second window, which Henderson opened. The king then,
still struggling with Ruthven, called out, "Treason!" and Help!"
and was heard by his followers in the court-yard below.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must here give some account how the royal train came to
be so opportunely within hearing of their master's cries. After drinking the
pledge which had been recommended by the king, the Duke of Lennox and the rest
of the royal retinue arose from table; the former recollecting the charge which
he had to follow his majesty, when he should see him go out with Ruthven. The Earl
of Gowrie, however, alleged that the king desired to be private for a few
minutes; and calling for the key of his garden, carried his visitors to walk
there until James should descend. They had stayed there but a few minutes when
John Cranstoun, a retainer or friend of the Earl, came into the garden, and
said that the king was on horseback, and already past the middle of the South
Inch, upon his return to Falkland. The Duke of Lennox and the other attendants
of .James, conceiving them failing in their duty, instantly hastened out of the
garden towards the court-yard, and called to horse. The porter at the gate
informed them the king had not passed. As they stood in surprise, the Earl of
Gowrie entreated them to stay till he should obtain sure information concerning
the king's motions. He entered the house, and returning almost immediately,
declared that the king was actually set forth. The porter still contradicted
the report of his master, replying to the royal attendants that the king must
be still in the mansion, since he could not have gone out without his having
seen him. "Thou liest, knave!" exclaimed the earl; and to reconcile
his own account with that of his servant, Gowrie alleged that the king was gone
forth at a postern gate. "It is impossible, my lord, answered the porter,
"for I am in possession of the key of that postern." During this
dispute cries of treason and help were heard from the turret. "That is the
king's voice," said the Duke of Lennox, "be he where he will."
James's attendants looked up to the window from whence the noise was heard, and
perceived the head of the king partly thrust out at the window, inflamed by struggling,
and a hand grasping him by the throat. The greater part of the king's
attendants reentered the mansion by the principal gate lo hasten to their master's
assistance, while Sir Thomas Erskine and others threw themselves upon the Earl
of Gowrie, accusing him of treason. Gowrie, with the assistance of Thomas Cranstoun
and others his retainers and servants, extricated himself from their grasp, and
at first fled a little way up the street; then halted, and drew two swords,
which, according to a fashion of the time practised in Italy, he carried in the
same scabbard. "What will you do, my lord?" said Cranstoun, who
attended with the purpose of seconding him. "I will either make my way to
my own house," said the earl, adopting, it would seem, a desperate
resolution, "or I will die for it." He rushed on, followed by
Cranstoun and other friends and domestics, who also drew their swords. A
lackey, named Crookshanks. threw a steel headpiece upon the earl's head as he
passed.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A dreadful scene in the mean while was taking place in Gowrie
House. Lennox, Mar, and by far the greater part of the king's attendants, endeavoured
to find their way to the place of the king's confinement by the public stair-case
of the castle; but this only conducted them to the outer door of the gallery,
within which, and from one of its extremities, opened the fatal cabinet in
which the king and Alexander Ruthven were still grappling with each other.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It must be remembered, that a scene, the details of which
take some time in narrating, passed in the course of two or three minutes. Sir
John Ramsay, a page of James, who had in keeping his majesty's hawk, had heard
James's cry of distress; and while the other attendants of the king ran up the
main staircase, he lighted by accident upon a small turnpike or winding stair,
which led to the cabinet in which the struggle was still taking place, alarmed
by the noise and shuffling of feet, he exerted his whole strength in such a
manner as to force open the door at the head of that turnpike, which introduced
him into the fatal cabinet. The king and Ruthven were still wrestling together;
and although James had forced his antagonist almost upon his knees, Ruthven had
still his hand upon James's face and mouth. He also saw another form, that of
the passive Andrew Henderson, who left the closet almost the instant he saw
Ramsay enter.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The page, at the sight of his master's danger, cast the king’s
hawk from his hand, and drew his whinger, or hunting sword. The king, at that
moment of emergency, called out, "Fie! strike him low, for he has a pine
doublet,"—meaning a secret shirt of mail under his garments. Ramsay stabbed
Ruthven accordingly; and James lending his assistance, they thrust the wounded
man down the turnpike by which Ramsay had ascended. Voices and steps were now
heard advancing upwards: and Ramsay, knowing the accents called out to Sir
Thomas Erskine to come up the turnpike stair, even to the head. Sir Thomas
Erskine was accompanied by Sir Hugh Harris, the king's physician, a lame man,
and unfit for fighting. Near the bottom of the turnpike Sir Thomas Erskine, in his
ascent met Ruthven, bleeding in the face and neck and called out, "Fie!
strike! this is the traitor on which Alexander Ruthven was run through the
body, having only breath remaining to say, "Alas! I had no blame of
it."</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sir Thomas Erskine pressed to the head of the staircase,
where he found the king and Ramsay alone. "I thought." said Erskine,
your majesty would have trusted me so much as at least to have commanded me to
await at the door for your protection, if you had not thought it meet to take
me with you. James replied, and the words first spoken in such a moment of
agitation are always worthy of notice, "Alas! the traitor deceived me in
that as he did in the rest; for I commanded him to bring you to me, but he only
went out and locked the door."</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At this point of the extraordinary transaction the Karl of
Gowrie entered with a drawn sword in each hand, a steel bonnet on his head, and
six servants following him in arms. In the chamber there were only three of the
king's retinue, Sir Hugh Horns, Sir John Ramsay, and Sir Thomas Erskine, with one
Wilson, a servant. Of these, Sir Hugh Harris might be considered as unfit for
combat. They thrust the king back into the turret closet, and turned to
encounter Gowrie and his servants, exasperated as they were by the death of
Alexander Ruthven, whose body they had found at the bottom of the turnpike
stair. The battle was for a short time fierce and unequal on the part of the
king's retinue; hut Erskine having exclaimed to the Earl of Gowrie,
"Traitor, you have slain our master, and now you would murder us!"
the Earl, as if astonished, dropped the point of his sword, and Erskine in the
same moment ran him through the body. The thrust was fatal, and the Earl fell
dead, without a single word. His servants and assistants fled...’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">August 4<sup> </sup>is the birth-date of poet Percy Bysshe
Shelley, who produced more in his twenty-nine years, than most of us do in
longer life times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shelley was
influential to many, but was also a source of controversy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of his earlier publications was titled “The
Necessity of Athiesm”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shelley had friends in common with Walter Scott, one of
whom was Lord Byron, whose religious beliefs were also called into question
through his writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the entry from
Scott’s Journal below, Scott distinguishes between the two.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 4 [1828] --Wrote a little and was obliged to correct the
Molière affair for R.P.G. I think his plan cannot go on much longer
with so much</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">weakness at the helm. A clever fellow would make it take the
field with</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a vengeance, but poor G. will run in debt with the
booksellers and let</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all go to the devil. I sent a long letter to Lockhart,
received from</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Horace Smith, very gentlemanlike and well-written,
complaining that Mr.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leigh Hunt had mixed him up, in his Life of Byron, with
Shelley as if he</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">had shared his irreligious opinions. Leigh Hunt afterwards
at the</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">request of Smith published a swaggering contradiction of the
inference</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to be derived from the way in which he has named them
together. Horatio</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Smith seems not to have relied upon his disclamation, as he
has</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">requested me to mention the thing to John Lockhart, and to
some one</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘The conscript fathers of Jarlshof, having settled their
own matters, took next under their consideration the case of Swertha, the
banished matron who had been expelled from the castle, whom, as an experienced
and useful ally, they were highly desirous to restore to her office of
housekeeper, should that be found possible. But as their wisdom here failed
them, Swertha, in despair, had recourse to the good offices of Mordaunt
Mertoun, with whom she had acquired some favour by her knowledge in old
Norwegian ballads, and dismal tales concerning the Trows, or Drows (the dwarfs
of the Scalds), with whom superstitious eld had peopled many a lonely cavern
and brown dale in Dunrossness, as in every other district of Zetland.
'Swertha,' said the youth, 'I can do but little for you, but you may do
something for yourself. My father's passion resembles the fury of those ancient
champions — those Berserkars, you sing songs about.'</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">'Ay — ay, fish of my heart,' replied the old woman, with
a pathetic whine; 'the Berserkars were champions who lived before the blessed
days of St. Olave, and who used to run like madmen on swords, and spears, and
harpoons, and muskets, and snap them all into pieces, as a finner* would go
through a herring-net, and then, when the fury went off, they were as weak and
unstable as water.'…’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Walter Scott managed to bring a saint into a book on
piracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saint Olaf was King of Norway
from 1015 to 1030. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His influence on
Orkney and the Faroes, where ”The Pirate” was set <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is remembered still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Olaf's historical range is wide, from the Baltic countries to England and Normandy (at least). Samuel Pepys, a frequent source for this blog, is buried at Saint Olave's Chuch </span>Hart Street, in London. King Olaf II Haroldsson’s beatification took place on August 3<sup>rd</sup>,
1031, about a year after his death at the Battle of Stiklestad.</span></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-24240013404593372222012-08-02T00:02:00.000-07:002012-08-02T00:02:00.878-07:00William Rufus<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-variant: small-caps;">‘While </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the
princes and barons of the first Crusade were establishing in Palestine the
little Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, various alterations took place in Europe, by
which the rights of the absentees were materially affected. No one suffered
more by these than Robert Duke of Normandy. To furnish himself forth for the
Crusade, this eldest son of <span class="gstxthlt">William </span>the Conqueror
had imprudently pledged the Duchy of Normandy, being the only part of his
father's dominions which had descended to him, to his brother <span class="gstxthlt">William, </span>called <span class="gstxthlt">Rufus, </span>or the
Red, King of England, for a large sum of money. But while Robert was employed
in cleaving Mahometan champions asunder, and exhibiting feats of the most
romantic valour, <span class="gstxthlt">William </span>was privately engaged in
securing and rendering permanent the temporary interest which the mortgage gave
him in the fief of the duchy, and it soon became evident, that even if Robert
should be able and desirous to redeem the territory, it was not likely that his
more powerful brother would renounce the right he had acquired over it. But the
death of <span class="gstxthlt">William Rufus </span>brought into play a third
son of the Conqueror. This was Henry, the youngest, whom his brothers, both
Robert and <span class="gstxthlt">William, </span>had treated with considerable
severity after their father's death, and refused to grant any appanage becoming
his rank. Civil war ensued among the brothers, and on one memorable occasion,
Henry was besieged by his two brethren, in the fortress of Mount Saint Michael,
and reduced to the greatest extremity for want of water. His distress being
communicated to Robert, who was always generous, he instantly sent him a
supply. <span class="gstxthlt">William, </span>who was of a harder and more
inflexible disposition, upbraided Robert with his imprudent generosity.
"What else could I do?" answered the generous Norman. "He is our
brother. Had he died for lack of water, how were we to supply his loss?"</span></i></div>
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reduced to the condition of a private individual, although his bravery was
equal to that<span class="gtxtbody1"> of either of his brothers; his sagacity was
also much superior, and his learning, which was uncommon in those days, so
considerable, that he obtained the name of Beauclerc, or Fine Scholar.</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="gstxthlt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">William Rufus </span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">was
killed accidentally with an arrow, while hunting in the New Forest, 'which had
been so unscrupulously formed or enlarged, by his father the Conqueror. Henry
was engaged in the same sport in a different part of the forest, and learning
this accident as soon as it happened, rode post-haste to London, and availed
himself of Robert's absence to procure his own election to the crown of
England, which was confirmed by Parliament…’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The fateful
arrow that slew William II of England was fired by Walter Tirel, on August 2<sup>nd</sup>,
1100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sir Walter Scott’s history is
found in “Tales of a Grandfather”.</span></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-33210575201751936092012-08-01T02:27:00.002-07:002012-08-01T16:40:26.836-07:00London Bridge<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘January 26
[1827].--My rheumatism is almost gone. I can walk without Major Weir, which is
the name Anne gives my cane, because it is so often out of the way that
it is suspected, like the staff of that famous wizard, to
be capable of locomotion. Went to Court, and tarried till three
o'clock, after which transacted business with Mr. Gibson and Dr. Inglis as
one of Miss Hume's trustees. Then was introduced to young Mr. Rennie, or
he to me, by [Sir] James Hall, a genteel-looking young man, and
speaks well. He was called into public notice by having, many years
before, made a draught of a plan of his father's for London Bridge. It was
sought for when the building was really about to take place, and the
assistance which young Mr. Rennie gave to render it useful raised
his character so high, that his brother and he are now in first-rate
practice as civil engineers.’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In 1799, a competition to design a replacement for the existing
London Bridge was held. <a href="http://dailysirwalter.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-rennie.html">John Rennie</a>, from
East Linton, in Scotland won the competition.
Work began in 1824, under Rennie’s son, also John, who Walter Scott
records meeting (Scott’s Journal) on January 26<sup>th</sup>, 1827. New London Bridge opened August 1, 1831.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">According to London2012.com, thirty current olympic athletes share an August 1st birthday. Among them, from the US </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (where I'm from)</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, Asjha Jones, Jeff Larimer, and Stuart Mcnay. And from host UK, Karen Carney. But to have their picture taken with Rennie's London Bridge, all will have to travel to Arizona. Like the bridge it replaced, Rennie's bridge became outmoded, and was dismantled and shipped to the US in the 1970's. London Bridge was recommissioned in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, in 1971.</span></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-25387876010848726212012-07-31T00:31:00.000-07:002012-07-31T00:31:00.323-07:00Review of Moore's "Life of Byron"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘…When
the power of the mind is growing so fast, it is of immense importance to make
the feeling of literary obligation firm and strong, and to enforce it with an
authority which will neither be defied nor resisted; and this can be done
without difficulty, because men of taste, and poets more than others, have
their intellectual being in the world’s good opinion. The poet, more than all,
needs this restraint of general opinion. The historian makes a slow and patient
impression on others; the force of the orator, except in subjects of unusual
interest, is felt in a space hardly broader than the thunder-cloud of the
storm; but the works of Byron, like those of Scott, not confined to the bounds
of their language, have been read, we have no doubt, by the northern light at
Tornea, and by the pine-torch under the Rocky Mountains; and in all the various
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The great poet Lord Byron and Walter Scott are placed in
company with one another in William Peabody’s review of Moore’s “Life of Byron”,
which was published in the “North American Review”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The article
appeared on July 31, 1830.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-77088322981092242032012-07-30T00:30:00.000-07:002012-07-30T00:30:03.855-07:00Thomas Gray<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Roughly two weeks before
Walter Scott was born, English poet Thomas Gray died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The date was July 30, 1771, and Gray was 54 at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading Gray was part of Scott’s education,
as the following two passages from John Gibson Lockhart’s “Memoirs of the Life
of Sir Walter Scott” show.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘…I
have found, however, two note-books, inscribed "Walter Scott, 1792"
containing a variety of scraps and hints which may help us to fill up our
notion of his private studies during that year. He appears to have used them
indiscriminately. We have now an extract from the author he happened to be
reading; now a memorandum of something that had struck him in conversation; a
fragment of an essay; transcripts of favorite poems; remarks on curious cases
in the old records of the Justiciary Court; in short, a most miscellaneous
collection, in which there is whatever might have been looked for, with perhaps
the single exception of original verse. One of the books opens with: "<span class="italic">Vegtam's Kvitha</span>, or The Descent of Odin, with the Latin of
Thomas Bartholine, and the English poetical version of Mr. Gray; with some
account of the death of Balder, both as narrated in the Edda, and as handed
down to us by the Northern historians—<span class="italic">Auctore Gualtero Scott</span>."
The Norse original and the two versions are then transcribed; and <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7607492989900916394" id="page182" name="page182"></a>the historical account appended, extending to seven
closely written quarto pages, was, I doubt not, read before one or other of his
debating societies. Next comes a page, headed "Pecuniary Distress of
Charles the First," and containing a transcript of a receipt for some
plate lent to the King in 1643. He then copies Langhorne's Owen of Carron; the
verses of Canute, on passing Ely; the lines to a cuckoo, given by Warton as the
oldest specimen of English verse; a translation "by a gentleman in
Devonshire," of the death-song of Regner Lodbrog; and the beautiful
quatrain omitted in Gray's Elegy,—</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"There
scattered oft, the earliest of the year," etc.’</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">'…Next morning, before breakfast, he
carried his MS. to Miss Cranstoun, who was not only delighted but astonished at
it; for I have seen a letter of hers to a common friend in the country, in
which she says—"Upon my word, Walter Scott is going to turn out a
poet—something of a cross, I think, between Burns and Gray."...’</span></i></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-14692994131729309682012-07-29T04:47:00.001-07:002012-07-29T04:47:44.526-07:00Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht to Nova Zembla<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">July and
August are traditional vacation months, and in 1814, not long after "Waverley" was published, Walter Scott began his
summer trip to the northern lights with<a href="http://dailysirwalter.blogspot.com/2010/06/robert-stevenson.html"> Robert Stevenson</a>. Below is his diary entry for departure day,
July 29<sup>th</sup>, taken from John Gibson Lockhart’s “Memoirs of the life of
Sir Walter Scott”.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘VACATION 1814</span></i></div>
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<span class="gstxthlt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-variant: small-caps;">Voyage In The
Lighthouse Yacht </span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-variant: small-caps;">To Nova
Zembla, And <span class="gstxthlt">The </span>Lord Knows Where. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-variant: small-caps;">July
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">29th,
1814 Sailed from Leith about one o'clock on board <span class="gstxthlt">the
Lighthouse Yacht, </span>conveying six guns, and ten men, commanded by Mr
Wilson. <span class="gstxthlt">The </span>company — Commissioners of <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>Northern Lights; Robert Hamilton, Sheriff of
Lanarkshire; William Erskine, Sheriff of Orkney and Zetland; Adam Duff, Sheriff
of Forfarshire. Non-commissioners—Ipse Ego; Mr David Marjoribanks, son to John
Marjoribanks, Provost of Edinburgh, a young gentleman; Rev. Mr Turnbull,
Minister of Tingwall, <span class="gstxthlt">in the </span>presbytery of
Shetland. But <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>official chief of <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>expedition is Mr Stevenson, <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>Surveyor-Viceroy
over <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>commissioners—a most gentlemanlike and
modest man, and well known by his scientific skill.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Reached <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>Isle of May <span class="gstxthlt">in the </span>evening;
went ashore, and saw <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>light—an old tower, and
much <span class="gstxthlt">in the </span>form of a border-keep, with a
beacon-grate on <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>top. It is to be abolished for
an oil revolving-light, <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>gratefire only being
ignited upon <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>leeward side when <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>wind is very high. Quaere—Might not <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>grate revolve? <span class="gstxthlt">The </span>isle had once a cell or two upon it. <span class="gstxthlt">The </span>vestiges of <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>chapel
are still visible. Mr Stevenson proposed demolishing <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>old
tower, and I recommended ruining it
a la picturesque—i. e. demolishing it partially. <span class="gstxthlt">The </span>island might be made a delightful residence for
seabathers.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On board again <span class="gstxthlt">in the </span>evening: watched <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>progress
of <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>ship round Fifeness, and <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>revolving motion of <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>now
distant <a href="http://dailysirwalter.blogspot.com/2010/02/bell-rock-lighthouse.html">Bell-Rock light</a> until <span class="gstxthlt">the </span>wind<span class="gtxtbody1"> grew rough, and </span><span class="gstxthlt">the </span><span class="gtxtbody1">landsmen sick. To bed at eleven, and slept sound.’</span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-20253682853092078842012-07-28T00:28:00.000-07:002012-07-28T00:28:00.599-07:00Marshal Edouard Mortier<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">‘…When
he entered the gates of Moscow, Buonaparte, as if unwilling to encounter the
sight of the empty streets, stopt immediately on entering the first suburb <sup>1</sup>.
His troops were quartered in the
desolate city. During the first few hours after their arrival, an obscure
rumour, which could not be traced, but one of those which are sometimes found
to get abroad before the approach of some awful certainty, announced that the
city would be endangered by fire in the course of the night. The report seemed
to arise from those evident circumstances which rendered the event probable,
but no one took any notice of it, until at midnight, when the soldiers were
startled from their quarters by the report that the town was in flames. The
memorable conflagration began amongst the coachmakers' warehouses and workshops
in the Bazaar, or general market, which was the most rich district of the city.
It was imputed to accident, and the progress of the flames was subdued by the
exertions of the French soldiers. Napoleon, who had been roused by the tumult,
hurried to the spot, and when the alarm seemed at an end, he retired, not to
his former quarters in the suburbs, but to the Kremlin, the hereditary palace
of the only sovereign whom he had ever treated as an equal, and over whom his
successful arms had now attained such an apparently immense superiority. Yet he
did not sufler himself to be dazzled by the advantage he had obtained, but
availed himself of the light of the blazing Bazaar, to write to the Emperor
proposals of peace with his own hand. They were despatched by a Russian officer
of rank, who had been disabled by indisposition from following the army. But no
answer was ever returned,</span></i></div>
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<span class="gstxtsup"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
[ " Napoleon appointed <span class="gstxthlt">Marshal Mortier </span>governor
of the capital. 'Above all,' said he to him, ' no pillage! For this you shall
be answerable to me with your life. Defend Moscow against all, whether friend
or foe.' "—<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Segur, </span>t. ii. p.
38.J,,,'</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Edouard
Mortier was among Napoleon’s first group of marshals, and rose to become a duke
(courtesy of Napoleon), and Prime Minister of France. Mortier, who had fought in the Revolutionary
Wars, served France past Napoleon’s time, dying on July 28<sup>th</sup>, 1835,
during an attack on Louis-Philippe I by Giuseppe Fieschi. Scott’s text above comes from “Life of
Napoleon Buonaparte”.</span></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-14033112809847176532012-07-27T00:27:00.000-07:002012-07-27T00:27:00.214-07:00zzzzzzz<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘…When I was a young lad, <br />
My fortune was bad— </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pshaw! This is not the tune it goes to." Here he
fell fast asleep, and sooner or later all his companions in misfortune followed
his example.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The benches intended for the repose of the soldiers of
the guard, afforded the prisoners convenience enough to lie down, though their
slumbers, it may be believed, were neither sound nor undisturbed. But when
daylight was but a little while broken, the explosion of gunpowder which took
place, and the subsequent fall of the turret to which the mine was applied,
would have awakened the <span class="gstxthlt">Seven Sleepers <sup>1</sup>, </span>or
Morpheus<span class="gstxtsup"> </span>himself.
The smoke, penetrating through the windows, left them at no loss for the cause
of the din.</span></i></div>
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<span class="gstxtsup"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1)</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
<span class="gstxthlt">Seven </span>Christian youths who are said to have concealed
themselves in a cavern near Ephesus during a persecution in the third century,
and to have fallen asleep there, not awaking until two or three hundred years
later, when Christianity had become the religion of the empire...'</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Waking the
Seven Sleepers would have been quite a task.
The seven youths of Ephesus woke in the 5<sup>th</sup> century,
according to the story, two centuries after they began snoring. July 27<sup>th</sup> is the feast day, so grab six friends, and enjoy a nap. Scott’s text above comes from “Woodstock”.</span></div>
BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-71865571300543753192012-07-26T00:26:00.000-07:002012-07-26T00:26:00.421-07:00George Bernard Shaw<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">George Bernard Shaw was born this day, July 26<sup>th</sup>,
in 1856. He lived nearly 100 years,
dying in 1950. Shaw, of course, was famous
as a playwright. Equally significant (at least), Shaw
co-founded the London School of Economics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shaw made one memorable statement with Walter Scott’s
name involved, which was a backhand compliment to the author.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“With
the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter
Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure
my mind against his.”</span></i></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-55247773380788529552012-07-25T00:25:00.000-07:002012-07-25T00:25:00.688-07:00Cottagers of Blenburnie<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The author of “The Cottagers of Glenburnie”, Elizabeth
Hamilton, was born this day, July 25<sup>th</sup>, in either 1756 or 1758. She<a href="http://dailysirwalter.blogspot.com/2010/07/elizabeth-hamilton.html"> lived nearly until her 70th (or 68th) birthday, in 1816</a>. The
1859 Chambers edition of this work included a bio of Ms. Hamilton. From that bio:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ‘<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Mrs
Elizabeth Hamilton, </span>the accomplished authoress of the present work, was
a native of Ireland, having been born in Belfast, in the year 1758. She was
descended from a respectable Scottish family, which had emigrated to Ireland,
in consequence of the religious persecutions in the time of Charles II. Mrs
Hamilton's grandfather, however, had re-established himself in Scotland, where
he had procured a civil appointment, and became the father of several children.
He died at a comparatively early age in distressed circumstances, and his only
son, Elizabeth's father, was left with his two sisters to struggle for
themselves in the world. Fortunately, their connections were able and willing
to assist them; and while the sisters were received into tho families of their
friends, young Hamilton was placed in a commercial house in London, in
accordance with his wish to enter into trade. Ultimately ho went over to
Ireland, and engaged in business in Belfast…’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sir Walter Scott is quoted as having said of “The Cottagers
of Glenburnie”, that it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"a
picture of the rural habits of Scotland, of striking and impressive
fidelity."</i> By her later years,
according to the biography already quoted, Ms. Hamilton was traveling in
some of the same circle as Scott.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">‘…Miss
Hamilton's health had become of late years exceedingly precarious, and after
the return of her sister to Ireland, she passed some time in Gloucestershire
and at Bath. The illness under which she occasionally laboured, assumed now the
appearance of gout in the limbs, of the use of which she was sometimes entirely
deprived. This disease continued with her, more or less, for the rest of her
life. It did not, however, paralyse her mental activity. In 1800, she gave to
the public her work, in three volumes, termed the Modern Philosophers, which
reached at once a very high degree of popularity. Being published anonymously,
in order to give a stronger zest to the humour it contains, it had the honour
of being successively ascribed to several of the first authors of the day. The
true author, however, was not long in being discovered, and she became at once
the admired of the witty, the fashionable, and the great. Among these she
easily distinguished the proper objects of friendship; and perhaps no one was
ever more fortunate in acquiring the love and esteem of those whose regard she
sought. In the number wero Dugald Stewart, Miss Edgeworth, Bishop Watson,
Hector M'Neill, Miss Elizabeth Smith, and many other individuals, noted for
their virtues and their genius. The frequent excursions which were thought
advisable for her health, brought her into contact with many whom she might not
otherwise have known…’</span></i></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-72619234642741386212012-07-24T16:21:00.001-07:002012-07-24T16:21:44.064-07:00Isle of Dogs<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Monday
24 July 1665…We set out so late that it grew dark, so as we doubted the losing
of our way; and a long time it was, or seemed, before we could get to the
water-side, and that about eleven at night, where, when we come, all merry
(only my eye troubled me, as I said), we found no ferryboat was there, nor no
oares to carry us to Deptford. However, afterwards oares was called from the
other side at Greenwich; but, when it come, a frolique, being mighty merry,
took us, and there we would sleep all night in the coach in the Isle of Doggs.
So we did, there being now with us my Lady Scott, and with great pleasure drew
up the glasses, and slept till daylight, and then some victuals and wine being
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known only to this blogger as a setting used by an author with the same surname
as mine (Iain Sinclair).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Apparently an interesting place for a </span>pint or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lady Scott in
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Walter Scott knew the Isle of Dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least well enough to mention it as part of
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humbly," said Sir Geoffrey, "but it is an honour I design for myself,
as I apprehend no one can so utterly surrender and deliver him up to his
Majesty's service as the father that begot him is entitled to do.--Julian, come
forward, and kneel.-- Here he is, please your Majesty--Julian Peveril--a chip
of the old block--as stout, though scarce so tall a tree, as the old trunk,
when at the freshest. Take him to you, sir, for a faithful servant, /à pendre/,
as the French say; if he fears fire or steel, axe or gallows, in your Majesty's
service, I renounce him--he is no son of mine--I disown him, and he may go to
the Isle of Man, the Isle of Dogs, or the Isle of Devils, for what I care."</i></span></div>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-58566980350778596122012-07-23T00:23:00.000-07:002012-07-23T00:23:00.369-07:00Archibald Constable<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Publisher
Archibald Constable died on July 21<sup>st</sup>, 1827.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took until two days later for Walter Scott
to record his feelings, in his journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘July 23 [1827]…Constable's death might
have been a most important thing to me if it had happened some years ago, and I
should then have lamented it much. He has</span></i></div>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">lived to do me some injury; yet, excepting the last £5000, I think most</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">unintentionally. He was a prince of booksellers; his views sharp,</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">powerful, and liberal; too sanguine, however, and, like many bold and</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">successful schemers, never knowing when to stand or stop, and not always</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">calculating his means to his objects with mercantile accuracy. He was</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">very vain, for which he had some reason, having raised himself to great</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">commercial eminence, as he might also have attained great wealth with</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">good management. He knew, I think, more of the business of a bookseller</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in planning and executing popular works than any man of his time. In</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">books themselves he had much bibliographical information, but none</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">whatever that could be termed literary. He knew the rare volumes of his</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">library not only by the eye, but by the touch, when blindfolded. Thomas</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thomson saw him make this experiment, and, that it might be complete,</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">placed in his hand an ordinary volume instead of one of these _libri</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">rariores_. He said he had over-estimated his memory; he could not</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">recollect that volume. Constable was a violent-tempered man with those</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that he dared use freedom with. He was easily overawed by people of</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">consequence, but, as usual, took it out of those whom poverty made</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">subservient to him. Yet he was generous, and far from bad-hearted. In</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">person good-looking, but very corpulent latterly; a large feeder, and</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">deep drinker, till his health became weak. He died of water in the</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">chest, which the natural strength of his constitution set long at</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">defiance. I have no great reason to regret him; yet I do. If he deceived</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">me, he also deceived himself.</span></i></pre>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-65489433595774166662012-07-22T14:48:00.000-07:002012-07-22T14:48:41.720-07:00Evelina<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘August 3
[1778] --I have an immensity to write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Susan has copied me a</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">letter which
Mrs. Thrale has written to my father, upon the</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">occasion of
returning my mother two novels by Madame</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Riccoboni.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is so honourable to me, and so sweet in
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Streatham, July
22.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dear Sir,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I forgot to
give you the novels in your carriage, which I now</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">send.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Evelina" certainly excels them far
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">probability of
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">over the mind,
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that Riccoboni
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I cannot tell
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to try her
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So far had I
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">home, full of
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Richardson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talk of it for ever, and he feels ardent
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I lent him the
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You must be
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you, not to be
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pleasure yields
to nothing but receiving it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long, my
dear sir,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">may you live to
enjoy the just praises of your children! and long</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">may they live
to deserve and delight such a parent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These are</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">things that you
would say in verse - but poetry implies fiction,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and all this is
naked truth.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My compliments
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How, sweet, how
amiable in this charming woman is her desire of</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">making my dear
father satisfied with his scribbler's 'attempt!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">do, indeed,
feel the most grateful love for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
Dr.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Johnson's
approbation!--It almost crazed me with agreeable</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">surprise--it
gave me such a flight of spirits that I danced a jig</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to Mr. Crisp,
Without any preparation, music, or explanation;--to</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his no small
amazement and diversion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I left him,
however, to</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">make his own
comments upon my friskiness without affording him</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the smallest
assistance.’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like Walter Scott, Frances Burney published her first
novel anonymously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s easy to
understand her happiness when Samuel Johnson pronounced the novel a success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs. Thrale’s letter of July 22, 1778
reinforced that happiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s also easy to see how Scott could appreciate how Ms.
Burney reacted to success while her authorship was still unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Annie Raine Ellis’ introduction to “Evelina”,
as published for Bohn’s Novelist’s Library in 1922.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘A
certain Sir John [Shelley], said he had never seen any woman walk so well; and
she [Fanny Burney, Madame D’Arblay] dance with great <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When she learnt the great success of “Evelina”, after cheking a longing
to throw Mr. Crisp’s wig out of the window, she danced a jig round the old mulberry-tree
in his garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Crisp was not in the
secret, but put it down to her flow of spirits, after recovery from severe
illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sir Walter Scott was so pleased
with this tale (a pretty subject for a painter), that fifty years later he
wrote it down from her telling: </span></i></div>
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<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">November 18.--Was introduced by Rogers to Mad. D'Arblay, the</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">celebrated authoress of Evelina and Cecilia,--an elderly lady, with</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">no remains of personal beauty, but with a gentle manner and a pleasing</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">expression of countenance. She told me she had wished to see two</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">persons--myself, of course, being one; the other George Canning. This</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">was really a compliment to be pleased with--a nice little handsome pat</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of butter made up by a neat-handed Phillis of a dairymaid, instead</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of the grease, fit only for cart-wheels, which one is dosed with by the</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">pound. Mad. D'Arblay told us the common story of Dr. Burney, her</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">father, having brought home her own first work, and recommended it to</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">her perusal, was erroneous. Her father was in the secret of Evelina</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">being printed. But the following circumstances may have given rise to</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the story:--Dr. Burney was at Streatham soon after the publication,</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">where he found Mrs. Thrale recovering from her confinement, low at the</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">moment, and out of spirits. While they were talking together, Johnson,</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">who sat beside in a kind of reverie, suddenly broke out, "You should</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">read this new work, madam--you should read Evelina; every one says it</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is excellent, and they are right." The delighted father obtained a</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">commission from Mrs. Thrale to purchase his daughter's work, and retired</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the happiest of men. Mad. D'Arblay said she was wild with joy at this</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">decisive evidence of her literary success, and that she could only give</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">vent to her rapture by dancing and skipping round a mulberry-tree in the</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">garden. She was very young at this time. I trust I shall see this lady</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">again. She has simple and apparently amiable manners, with quick</span></i></pre>
<pre><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">feelings.’</span></i></pre>BobSinchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509367529010432304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607492989900916394.post-17287874894359958442012-07-21T03:32:00.001-07:002012-07-21T03:32:15.920-07:00Matthew Prior<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Each day
brings endings and beginnings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>July 21<sup>st</sup>
was the <a href="http://dailysirwalter.blogspot.com/2010/07/death-of-burns.html">last day Burns breathed</a> – in 1796.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The same day, in 1664, brought new breath from English diplomat and poet
Matthew Prior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The text below, on Prior, comes
from “The Works of Jonathan Swift”; notes by Sir Walter Scott.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">‘A
NEW</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">JOURNEY
TO PARIS;</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">TOGETHER
WITH SOME SECRET TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN THE FRENCH KING AND AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">BY
THE SIEUR DU BAUDRIER.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">TRANSLATED
FROM THE FRENCH.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"I had rather be thought a good Englishman, than the
best poet, or the greatest scholar, that ever wrote."</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-variant: small-caps;">Prior,
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Preface
to *' <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Solomon." </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-variant: small-caps;">In
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1710-11,
the Tory ministry, whose principles and situation laid them under a necessity
of making peace with France, contrived to open a communication with that
country by means of the Abbe Gualtier, an obscure priest, agent for the French
prisoners of war. When matters were thus prepared for the intervention of a
more accredited envoy, the celebrated Matthew Prior, whose previous
acquaintance with diplomacy fitted him for such a trust, and whose rank was not
such as to make his motions observed, was dispatched by the British ministry
upon a secret embassy to France. It is said, that this step was proposed by
Mons. de Torcy, through the medium of the Earl of Jersey, and that Mr. Prior
held an interview with that minister at or near Calais, and immediately
returned to England. Notwithstanding every precaution which had been taken to
prevent discovery, Prior was recognized upon his landing, and detained by the
custom-house officers at Deal, until released by orders from their superiors.
This discovery was likely to prove embarrassing to the ministers,<span class="gtxtbody1"> who neither were in a situation to avow the negotiation, nor
durst venture to leave unappeased the feverish thirst for political
intelligence which always has characterized the English nation. In this
dilemma, Swift, "who oiled many a spring that Harley moved," came to
the assistance of his patrons with the following pamphlet, which, without
communicating a syllable of real intelligence, had the effect of at once
amusing the idle, confusing the suspicious, and sounding the temper of the
nation at large upon the subject of a negotiation. He himself gives the
following account of the piece:</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"I have just
thought of a project to bite the town. I have told you, that it is now known
that Mr. Prior has been lately in France. I will make a printer of my own sit
by me one day; and will dictate to him a formal relation of Prior's Journey, with
several particulars, all pure invention; and I doubt not but it will <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">lake."—Journal to Stella, </span>Aug.
31, 1711.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"This morning the
printer sent me an account of Prior's Journey; it makes a twopenny pamphlet: I
suppose you will see it, for I dare say it will run. It is a formal grave lie,
from the beginning to the end. I wrote all but the last page; that I dictated,
and the printer wrote. Mr. Secretary sent to me, to dine where he did: it was
at Prior's. When I came in, Prior showed me the pamphlet, seemed to be angry,
and said, 'Here is our English liberty!' I read some of it; said, 'I liked it
mightily, and envied the rogue the thought; for, had it come into my head, I
should certainly have done it myself."—<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ibid. </span>Sept. 11.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"The printer told me he sold yesterday a thousand of
'Prior's Journey,' and had printed five hundred more. It will do rarely, I
believe, and is a pure bite."—<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ibid.
</span>Sept . 12.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"Prior's Journey
sells still; they have sold two thousand, although the town is empty."—<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ibid. </span>Sept. 24.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"There came out some time ago an account of Mr.
Prior's Journey to France, pretended to be a translation; it is a pure
invention from the beginning to the end. I will let your grace into the secret
of it. The clamours of a party against any peace without Spain, and railing at
the ministry as if they designed to ruin us, occasioned that production/out of
indignity and contempt, by way of furnishing fools with something to talk of;
and it has had a very great effect."—<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Letter to Abp. King, </span>Oct. 1, 1711.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Although Swift, even to Stella, represents the
"Journey to Paris" as mere pleasantry, it was certainly written with
a more serious purpose. The cession of Spain to the House of Austria, upon
which the former treaty at Gertruydenberg had broken off, is artfully alluded
to; and, from the mode in which that part of Mr. Prior's supposed conference
should be received, ministers<span class="gtxtbody1"> might be enabled to judge
whether they might venture to abandon Spain to the House of Bourbon in the
event of a peace. In other respects, the high tone imputed to the British agent
was calculated to assure the public, that their rights were under the
management of those who would not compromise the national dignity, while the
extreme anxiety of the French king and ministers for a peace, necessarily inferred
that Britain might have one on her own terms…’</span></span></i></div>
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