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# A King's Solitude

From the French Le Roi solitaire.
Encloistered I live in a tenebrous place
 At the depth of my soul, with no love and no friend,
Alone like a god, with no equal to face,
 Save mine ancestors sleeping their sleep without end.
For grandeur is solitude! All the long day
 A changeless, an indolent idol I stand;
Superhuman and cold in my castle I stay,
 The purple upon me, the world in my hand.
Crown of thorns like to Christ's they have set on my hair.
 Under weight of my terrible splendour I bow,
And the sharp, golden rays of the nimbus I wear;
 Bright drops of blood-royal I bear on my brow.
Heraldical vultures come tearing my side.
 Prometheus chained to his mountain and cast
To the tempest of heaven, the wrath of the tide,
 Was only a king to his glory made fast.
Throned high on my mystic Olympus, I note
 But the voices of flatterers flocking in line, —
Sole cadences counted as worthy to float
 Unto summit so lofty, so distant, as mine. If wild with oppression my people upswarm,
 And rattle their irons and moan in their fear, — “Sleep, Sire,” they tell me, “it is but the storm.
 The thunder shall slacken, the sky shall be clear.”
I've power for all things, and pleasure for none.
 Ah, would I might know one deep wish in my heart,
Feel life in its warmth flood my bosom of stone,
 Share one true delight, in one feast have a part!
But lonely the sun in its circle must go.
 High peaks are the coldest, and never a spring,
And never a summer can soften the snow
 On height of Sierra, in heart of a king!
# A Key to the Lock. Or, A Treatise Proving, Beyond All Contradiction, the Dangerous Tendency of a Late Poem, Entituled, The Rape of the Lock, to Government and Religion

First published in 1715, this transcription is of the first edition.
A
KEY
TO THE
LOCK.
OR,
TO
Government and Religion.
By Esdras Barnivelt, Apoth.
LONDON:
Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane.1715.
* Epistle Dedicatory
* A Key to the Lock
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Key to the Lock

* "A Key to the Lock. Or, A Treatise Proving, Beyond All Contradiction, the Dangerous Tendency of a Late Poem, Entituled, The Rape of the Lock, to Government and Religion" (1715)
* "A Key to the Lock" in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 17 (1801)
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stopford, James John

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​STOPFORD. (Captain, 1841.)
James John Stopford was born 17 April, 1817. He is next brother of Capt. Robt. Fanshawe Stopford, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Feb. 1829; obtained his first commission 5 Oct. 1837; and was appointed, 17 of the same month, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of his father. Sir Robt. Stopford, to whom he was nominated, 21 Feb. 1838, Flag-Lieutenant. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 18 Feb. 1840; appointed, five days afterwards, to the Zebra 16, also in the Mediterranean; and posted 14 May, 1841. In the Zebra he obtained the grateful thanks of Capt. Houston Stewart, the senior officer present, for the cordial support and assistance he afforded in the attack upon Tortosa 25 Sept. 1840; on which occasion, we learn, the precision of the Zebra’s fire was quite astonishing. On 4 Dec. following Capt. Stopford was wrecked during a gale of wind off Caiffa; but he was honourably acquitted by court-martial of all blame on the occasion. From 13 Nov. 1844, until paid off in 1848, he commanded the Amazon 26, off Lisbon and again in the Mediterranean. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stopford, Edward

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​STOPFORD. (Commander, 1841.)
Edward Stopford was born 20 Aug. 1809. He is a younger brother of Capt. Rich. Henry Stopford, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Feb. 1823; and embarked, in Feb.- 1825, as Midshipman, on board the Boadicea 46, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane in the East Indies, where he took part in the operations connected with the war in Ava. In Dec. 1826 he removed to the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas; and after circumnavigating the globe in that ship (the first of her class that ever did so), he was received, in Aug. 1827, on board the Isis 50, bearing the broad pendant in the Mediterranean of Commodore Sir Thos. Staines; under whom we find him, 31 Jan. 1828, contributing to the capture of the piratical island of Carabusa, and to the destruction there of a large number of brigs, schooners, and other craft. In 1829 he joined the Raleigh 18, Capt. Sir Wm. Dickson, also in the Mediterranean; and towards the close of the same year, having passed his examination in the preceding Feb., he was appointed Mate of the Winchester 52, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies. He served next, until the receipt of his first commission, bearing date 12 Dec. 1831, as Acting-Lieutenant in the Mersey 26, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, Pickle schooner (commanded by himself and employed in the suppression of piracy and the slave-trade), and Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Thos. Metcalfe Currie (acting), all on the station last named; and he was afterwards appointed, in the Mediterranean – 30 Dec. 1833 and 17 March, 1837, to the Caledonia 120 and Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ships of Sir Josias Rowley and Sir Robt. Stopford – 20 Feb. 1838, to the command of the Confiance steamer, in which vessel he served on the coast of Syria – and 11 May, 1841, again to the Princess Charlotte, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir R. Stopford. On the paying off of the latter ship he was advanced, 20 July, 1841, to the rank of Commander. He has not been since afloat.
Commander Stopford married, at Malta, 6 Aug. 1840, Julia Maria, eldest daughter of the late Capt. Wm. Wilbraham, R.N. (1809), by whom he has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stopford, Montagu

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​STOPFORD. (Capt., 1825. f-p., 14; h-p., 23.)
The Honourable Montagu Stopford, born 11 Nov. 1798, is fourth son of John George, third Earl of Courtown, K.P., by Mary, eldest daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch; brother (with the present peer) of Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Edw. Stopford, who died 5 July, 1840; and nephew of the late Admiral Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Oct. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Scipion 74, Capt. Jas. Johnson, bearing the flag at the Cape of Good Hope of his uncle Hon. Robt. Stopford, under whom, in the ensuing year, he assisted as Midshipman at the conquest of the island of Java. After serving for 12 months at the Cape with Capt. Henderson Bain in the Lion 64, he returned home in the early part of 1813 in the President 38, Capt. Sam. Warren. On his arrival he was placed as a Supernumerary in the Trent, Capt. Jones, lying at Cork; and in the course of the same year he was sent in the Leonidas 38, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour, to the West Indies, where he remained until Sept. 1814. He next, in June and Dec. 1815, joined the Tonnant 80, fitting at Plymouth for the flag of Sir Benj. Hallowell, and Alceste 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell. In the latter ship he accompanied Lord Amherst in his embassy to China, and was wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar, on his passage home, 18 Feb. 1817. In Oct. 1819, at which period he had been serving for six months on the Halifax station in the Newcastle 60, flagship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, he was presented with a commission dated 17 July preceding. He was appointed, 24 Feb. 1820, to the William and Mary yacht, Capts. Andrew Sproule, John Phillimore, and Wm. Bowles, employed in attendance on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; was promoted, 29 Jan. 1822, to the rank of Commander; and on 8 April, 1825, after having served for about 14 months in that capacity in the Algerine 10, in the Mediterranean, was advanced to Post-rank. He subsequently, from 1 Aug. 1842 until paid off in 1846, commanded the Pique 36 on the North America and West India station.
Capt. Stopford married, 25 Aug. 1827, Cordelia Winifreda, second daughter of Major-General Sir Geo. Whitmore, Kt., K.C.H., then Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers in the island of Malta. By that lady he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stoll, John Luke Richard

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​STOLL. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 17; h-p., 6.)
John Luke Richard Stoll is son of the Hon. J. W. Stoll, Treasurer and Accountant-General at the Cape of Good Hope, and a Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of that colony.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Andromache frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Joseph Nourse at the Cape of Good Hope. In Feb. 1825 he was discharged; and in the following May he entered the Royal Naval College. He joined next, in the course of 1827, the Acorn and Satellite sloops, Capts. Alex. Ellice and John Milligen Laws (each forming part of an experimental squadron), and Maidstone 42, bearing the broad pendants of Commodores Wm. Skipsey and Chas. Marsh Sohomberg at the Cape of Good Hope; where he removed, in Aug. 1830, to the Espoir 10, Capt. Henry Fras. Greville. On that vessel being paid off he was received, in Jan. 1831, on board the Winchester 52, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West India station. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 6 Oct. 1832; and was in that capacity appojnted – 29 Oct. 1832, to the Fly 18, Capt. Peter M‘Quhae, in the West Indies, where he remained until Feb. 1835 – 4 Feb. 1836, as a Supernumerary, to the Thalia 42, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Patrick Campbell at the Cape of Good Hope – in April, 1837, and March, 1838, to the command of the Buzzard and Bonetta of 3 guns each, on the coast of Africa, , whence he returned to England and was paid off in June, 1840 – and in Nov. 1841, as Senior, to his ​former ship the Fly, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood, fitting at Plymouth for a surveying expedition to the East Indies. The Thalia made prize of two slave-vessels; the Buzzard suffered severely from fever at Fernando Po; and the Bonetta, which vessel Mr. Stoll joined while she was in quarantine at Ascension, had half her officers and crew carried off. In her he succeeded in capturing as many as nine slavers, three of which, of superior force, were taken 50 miles up the Congo River, and one cut out, after a sharp resistance, from the river Pongos, by two boats under his own direction. He was advanced to his present rank, soon after he had joined the Fly, 23 Nov. 1841; and since 30 June, 1847, has been employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stokes, Shovel Brenton

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​STOKES. (Lieut., 1830. f-p., 20; h-p., 15.)
Shovel Brenton Stokes entered the Navy, 24 Feb. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bacchante 38, Capts. Wm. Hoste and Fras. Stanfell; in which ship and her boats he saw much service in the Mediterranean, and assisted at the reduction of the towns of Rovigno, Karlebago, Fiumé, Ragusa, and Cattaro. On proceeding subsequently to the coast of North America, we find him, in the capacity of Midshipman, accompanying an expedition to Penobscot Bay, and contributing to the capture of the town of Machias. In July, 1815, he was received, as a Supernumerary, on board the Prince, Capt. Edm. Boger, lying at Spithead; and he was subsequently employed – from 5 Oct. 1815 until Nov. 1818, in the Bann 20 and Cherub 26, Capts. Wm. Fisher and Geo. Wickens Willes, on the coast of Africa – from 10 Nov. 1818 until 1821, as Mate, in the Wye 26, Capts. G. W. Willes and Peter Fisher, in the North Sea – from 1821 until 24 Aug. 1824, as Admiralty-Mate, Acting-Lieutenant, and Admiralty-Mate, in his former ship the Bann, Capts. Chas. Phillips Jones, Geo. Woollcombe, and Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, and Driver sloop, Capt. Chas. Bowen, both on the coast of Africa – and, from 14 Sept. 1824, until advanced to his present rank 22 July, 1830, chiefly as Admiralty-Mate, in the Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, Brazen 26, Capt. G. W. Willes, Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Moorsom, Aetna bomb, Capt. Thos. Edw. Hoste, Racer tender, Asia 84, Capts. Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone and Geo. Burdett, and St. Vincent 120, Capt. Hyde Parker, on the Home, African, and Mediterranean stations. His next and last appointment was, 4 July, 1836, to the Salamander steamer, Capt. Sidney Colpoys Dacres, under whom he was employed on the north coast of Spain until superseded in Feb. 1838. While serving on the coast of Africa he assisted in capturing a great variety of slave-vessels.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stone, John

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​STONE. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 13; h-p., 22.)
John Stone was born 28 July, 1799.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 Feb. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the North Star 28, Capts. Thos. Coe and Geo. Bentham, with whom he served in the Channel and West Indies, part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, until 30 April, 1816. He was afterwards employed – from 20 Aug. 1816 until July, 1819, in the Weymouth store-ship, Master- Commander Rich. Turner, in the Mediterranean and Baltic – from July, 1819, until 20 April, 1823, as Midshipman and Mate (he passed his examination in Aug. 1818), in the Superb 78, Capts. Thos. White and Adam Mackenzie (bearing the broad pendant at first of Commodore Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy), in South America – and from 20 April, 1823, until 3 Dec. 1824, in the Hussar 46, Capt. Geo. Harris, on the Lisbon and West India stations. He was then, for his exertions in the suppression of piracy, presented with a commission dated 20 Aug. 1824. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Stone married, 6 Sept. 1836, Miss Ann Warton Johnson, of Greenwich, co. Kent.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stone, William

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​STONE. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 22; h-p., 14.)
William Stone, born 1 May, 1799, is second son of Wm. Stone, Esq., late Master-Shipwright of Chatham Dockyard.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Jan. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Peacock of 18 guns and 122 men, Capt. Wm. Peake; and on 24 Feb. 1813 was present, as Midshipman, in that vessel when she was captured, off Demerara, by the American ship Hornet of 20 guns and 165 men, after a close and desperate action of 25 minutes, in which the British sustained a loss of 5 (including their commander) killed and 33 wounded, and the enemy of only 1 killed and 2 wounded. Among the wounded on the occasion was Mr. Stone, whose skull was fractured by a musket-ball. On his release from captivity he was received, in June, 1813, on board the Sceptre 74, Capt. Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross, stationed in the Chesapeake, where he was again wounded, in the neck, in an action with Commodore Barney’s flotilla. He also assisted in cutting out, on the coast of North Carolina, the Anaconda brig of 18 guns, and the 14-gun privateer St. Lawrence. He continued on the coast of North America in the vessel last mentioned, which was added to the British Navy and placed under the command of Lieut. David Boyd, and in the Maidstone 36, Capt. Wm. Skipsey, until Sept. 1815; and he was afterwards employed between Sept. 1815 and Oct. 1817, as Master’s Mate, in the Leander 50 and Vengeur 74, Capts. Edw. Chetham and Thos. Alexander, on the Home station – and between the latter date and April, 1824, as Mate and Admiralty-Midshipman (he passed his examination 5 March, 1817), in the Glasgow 60, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, Dispatch 18, Capt. Wm. Clarke Jervoise, and Rochfort 80, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg. On 19 May, 1824, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. While attached to the Dispatch an explosion of gunpowder deprived him for a long time of his sight; and so seriously was he injured that he was ultimately for many years rendered ​incapable of serving afloat. He applied in consequence for employment in the Coast Blockade; and on 8 Dec. 1830 he was accordingly appointed a Supernumerary of the Hyperion depot-ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye. For his services during the next six months he was placed, on the abolition of the Coast Blockade, in command, 5 April, 1831, of a station in the Coast Guard at Hastings, where he remained until 19 March, 1839. His exertions during that period in the suppression of smuggling were so great that they not only elicited the acknowledgments of the Comptroller-General, but attracted the notice of Alderman Wilson, who occasionally made visits to the coast, and who, on being elected Lord Mayor, testified his admiration of them by presenting Mr. Stone with the appointment, which he still holds, of Harbour-Master of the Port of London.
The Lieutenant married, 27 July, 1831, Arabella, second daughter of Dr. Kent, Surgeon at one time of Greenwich Hospital, and afterwards of Deptford Dockyard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stopford, Richard Henry

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​STOPFORD. (Captain, 1845.)
Richard Henry Stopford, born 22 Nov. 1803, is second son of the late Hon. and Rev. Rich. Bruce Stopford, Chaplain to the Queen, Canon of Windsor, Prebendary of Hereford, and Rector of Barton Segrave, co. Northampton, by Hon. Eleanor Powys, sister of Lord Lilford. He is brother of Commander Edw. Stopford, R.N.; nephew of the late Admiral Sir Robt. Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.; and grandson of James, second Earl of Courtown.
This officer passed his examination in 1824; obtained his first commission 31 Dec. 1826; served as Flag-Lieutenant to Hon. Sir R. Stopford in the Victory 104, at Portsmouth, from 30 April, 1827, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 26 Feb. 1830; and from 18 Dec. 1841, until paid off in 1844, was employed on the South American station in the ​Pearl 20. He attained his present rank 24 March, 1845. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Samara, Spiro

​SAMARA, Spiro, is a Greek, son of the Consul-general of Greece in Corfu, by an English mother. He was born Nov. 29, 1861. He got his first musical education in Athens, under the tuition of Enrico Stancampiano, a pupil of Mercadante, himself an opera conductor and music master, living in the Greek capital. While studying piano and harmony, literature had a great attraction for young Samara, and he dedicated to it all the time he did not employ with music. Thanks to his perseverance and to his natural facility, Samara ​acquired both ancient and modern Greek, and became a good English, French and Italian scholar. He was already a pianist of uncommon talent when he left Athens for the Paris Conservatoire. There he finished his musical education as a pupil of Delibes. It was in Paris that Samara's first compositions for orchestra were executed; there also some of his drawing-room songs were received with success. But that was not sufficient for the new composer; his ambition wanted a larger field, and he went to Milan, where the publisher E. Sonzogno, who had already heard of him in Paris, gave him Flora mirabilis,' a three-act libretto by the renowned poet, Ferdinando Fontana, to set to music. The first performance of his opera took place on May 16, 1886, at the Theatre Carcano of Milan. In a few days the name of the Greek maestro became popular in Italy, so successful was the appearance of his work. While the public applauded with enthusiasm, the critics were unanimous in proclaiming that this opera, without approaching perfection, still showed that its author had studied the great masters with care, that he possessed a certain originality of ideas, and above all, dramatic power.
Many important European towns have confirmed the verdict of Milan, and Samara has triumphed everywhere. Before writing 'Flora mirabilis' he had already composed an opera entitled 'Medjé.' This he has lately revised and completed, and it was brought out at the Costanzi Theatre in Home, Dec. 12, 1888. 'Lionella' is the title of another three-act libretto by Fontana, on which Samara is now at work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sale, John

From volume 3 of the work.
​SALE, John, born at Gainsborough, March 19, 1734, was admitted in 1766 a lay clerk of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and held that post until his death, Oct. 2, 1802.
His son, John, born in London in 1758, was in 1767 admitted a chorister of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and Eton College under William Webb, and so continued until 1775. In 1777 he obtained a lay clerk's place in both choirs. On July 12, 1783 [App. p.779 "1788"], he was admitted a gentleman of the Chapel Royal in the room of Nicholas Lade or Ladd; in 1794 he succeeded John Soaper as vicar choral of St. Paul's; and in 1796 John Hindle as lay vicar of Westminster Abbey. At Christmas 1796 he resigned his appointments at Windsor and Eton. In 1800 he succeeded Richard Bellamy as almoner and master of the choristers of St. Paul's. On Jan. 14, 1812, he was appointed successor to Samuel Webbe as secretary to the Catch Club, and soon afterwards resigned his places of almoner and master of the choristers of St. Paul's. He was also conductor of the Glee Club. He possessed a rich, full, and mellow-toned bass voice, and sang with distinct articulation and energetic expression. He was for thirty years a principal singer at the Concert of Ancient Music and other leading concerts in London, and at various provincial festivals. He composed several glees, which were included, with glees by Lord Mornington and other composers, in collections published by him. He died Nov. 11, 1827. He left two sons, viz.—
John Bernard, born at Windsor, 1779, and admitted a chorister of St. George's Chapel Windsor, and Eton College in 1785. In 1800 he succeeded Richard Bellamy as lay vicar of Westminster Abbey; on Jan. 19, 1803 was admitted a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, in the place of Samuel Champness, and in 1806, on the death of Richard Guise, obtained a second lay vicar's place at Westminster Abbey. On March 30, 1809, he succeeded Michael Rock as organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster. About 1826 he was appointed musical instructor to the Princess (now Queen) Victoria. In 1838 he was admitted organist of the Chapel Royal on the death of Attwood. His voice was a powerful bass, and his style of singing chaste and refined; he excelled in anthems, glees and other part singing. He was for many years principal second bass at the Concert of Ancient Music. He long enjoyed a high reputation as a teacher of singing and the pianoforte. His compositions were few, consisting only of some chants, psalm-tunes, Kyries, glees, songs and duets. One of his duets, 'The Butterfly,' was long in favour. In 1837 he published a collection of psalm and hymn tunes, chants, etc., with a concise system of chanting. He died Sept. 16, 1856. Of his three daughters, two, Mary Anne and Sophia, were organists and teachers of music; Sophia died May 3, 1869. The youngest, Laura, was the wife of William John Thoms, the antiquary, and originator of 'Notes and Queries.'
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Salo, Gasparo di

From volume 3 of the work.
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