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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Knocker, John Bedingfield

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​KNOCKER. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
John Bedingfield Knocker, born 1 April, 1793, at Dover, co. Kent, is brother of Lieut. Wm. Knocker, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 27 Jan. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pompée 74, Capt. Rich. Dacres, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith; and in the following July, having removed to the Aurora 28, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, was present at the bombardment and capture, notwithstanding a very firm resistance, of a battery mounted on Cape Licosa, in Spain. Rejoining the Pompée soon afterwards, he served in that ship under the flag of Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope in the expedition of 1807 to Copenhagen, whence he assisted in bringing home the Christian VII. 80, one of the Danish prizes. In Nov. of the latter year he obtained a berth on board the Diana 38, Capts. Chas. Grant and John Cramer, under whom, on his return from a visit to the Brazils, we find him, from Oct. 1809 until the commencement of 1810, employed with the advanced squadron up the Scheldt. During that particular period he was constantly absent on boat service, and on the night of 2 Dec. assisted, with much gallantry, in cutting out three schuyts, moored to the shore at Odenskirk, and provided with heavy ordnance. In Nov. 1810 he participated, as Master’s Mate, in an attack made on the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza lying aground under the protection of several strong batteries in the neighbourhood of La Hogue. On 23 of the ensuing month the latter vessel (the other having effected her escape) was effectually destroyed by two of the Diana’s boats – one of them commanded by Mr. Knocker, to whom a Lieutenant’s commission was in consequence sent, but which, as he had not served his time, he was of course unable to retain. During his attachment to the Diana, he was once struck with violence by a splinter on the occasion of a vessel being driven under the fire of some batteries on the French coast; and in Aug. 1811 he was sent home in charge of a fine schooner, of which he had himself effected the capture under the walls of St. Sebastian while in command of the ship’s boats. With the exception of a few months, from Nov. 1812 to March, 1813, during which he was confined to the Naval Hospital at Port Mahon, Mr. Knocker continued to serve with Capt. Grant in the St. Alban’s 64, and Armada 74, off Cadiz and Toulon, until nominated Acting-Lieutenant, 9 April, 1813, of the Royal George 100, Capt. Thos. Fras. Chas. Mainwaring. He was confirmed to that ship 10 July following, and was lastly, in Nov. of the same year, appointed to the Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith. He returned home from the Mediterranean and was paid off in July, 1814.
He married, 14 Oct. 1822, Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony Cox, Esq., Banker, of Harwich, co. Essex, by whom he has issue 14 children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Knocker, William

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​KNOCKER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 30.)
William Knocker was born 18 Dec. 1794. He is brother of Lieut. John B. Knocker, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Aug. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Glory 98, Capt. Wm. Albany Otway, employed in the Channel and off Cadiz; removed, in July, 1807, to the Niger 32, Capt. Jas. Hillyar, on the Mediterranean station; and in April, 1808, became Midshipman of the Barfleur 98, Capts. Donald M‘Leod and Sam. Hood Linzee. While in that ship we find him, after the convention of Cintra, escorting the Russian ​Rear-Admiral Seniavin’s squadron from Lisbon to England, then visiting Vigo, and, in Jan. 1809, assisting at the embarkation of Sir John Moore’s army after the battle of Corunna. In the course of the latter year, having joined the Thalia 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, Mr. Knocker made a voyage to Quebec, and accompanied, as Midshipman, the expedition to the Walcheren. He next, it appears, joined the Princess of Orange 74, commanded in the Downs by Capt. Fras. Beauman, and Tartar 32, Capt. Jos. Baker, on the Baltic station. On the occasion of the latter ship being wrecked, 18 Aug. 1811, it was Mr. Knocker’s fortune to be absent in a prize. He was afterwards, until Aug. 1815, employed in the Naiad 38, Capt. Philip Carteret, Impregnable 98, flag-ship of Admiral Wm. Young, Barrosa 36, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, Amaranthe 18, Capt. Rich. Augustus Yates, and Astraea 36, Capt. Edw. Kittoe. He served, during that period, with Admiral Young, at the blockade of the Scheldt – was present with Capt. Shirreff in many active operations in the Chesapeake, and went with him to the West Indies, where, while on duty aloft, he met an accident from the effects of which he has never recovered – and was sent in the Astraea to France, during the war of 100 days, on a mission of peculiar delicacy and hazard. On the date above mentioned Mr. Knocker, who then took up a commission dated 8 March, 1815, received an appointment to the Heron 18, Capts. Timothy Scriven, Geo. Bentham, and Herbert Brace Powell, under the second of whom he fought at Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. He was superseded at his own request in Feb. 1817, for the purpose of recruiting his health, and has since been on half-pay.
From 1819 until 1832 Lieut. Knocker had command, on the Harwich station, of the Dover packet, under the direction of the Post-office. He has been in charge, since, of different private steamers. He married, 10 Sept. 1821, Augusta Ann, daughter of Capt. Thos. Bridge, and by that lady, who died in 1839, has issue nine children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Knox, Thomas Owen

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​KNOX. (Captain, 1842.)
Thomas Owen Knox entered the Navy 14 Feb. 1816; and was made Lieutenant, 24 April, 1824, into the Spartiate 76, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Eyre in South America. His next appointments were – 5 June, 1824, to the Éclair 18, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, on the same station – 7 July, 1828, to the Pyramus 42, Capt. Geo. Rose Sartorius – 30 Aug. 1828, to the Pallas 42, Capts. Adolphus FitzClarence and Manley Hall Dixon, under the former of whom we find him accompanying Lord Dalhiousie and the Bishop of Calcutta from Portsmouth to Bengal, General Viscount Combermere from India home, and Col. Fox from Halifax – and 10 Aug. 1831, as First, to the Magicienne 24, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, on the East India station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in March, 1835. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 15 Feb. following, he was successively nominated, 29 March, 1836, and 13 May, 1840, Second-Captain of the Minden 72 and Rodney 92, Capts. Alex. Renton Sharpe and Robt. Maunsell, both on the Mediterranean station. He has been on half-pay since the receipt of his Post-commission, which bears date 14 June, 1842. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whetstone, George

​Whetstone, George (1544?-1587?).—Dramatist, one of the early, roistering playwrights who frequented the Court of Elizabeth, later served as a soldier in the Low Countries, accompanied Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition to Newfoundland in 1578, and was at the Battle of Zutphen in 1586. He was a trenchant critic of the contemporary drama, contending for greater reality and rationality. His play, Promos and Cassandra, translated from Cinthio's Hecatomithi, was used by Shakespeare in Measure for Measure.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whewell, William

​Whewell, William (1794-1866).—Philosopher, theologian and mathematician, s. of a joiner at Lancaster, where he was b., ed. at Camb., where he had a brilliant career. He became Prof. of Mineralogy at Camb. 1828, of Moral Theology 1838, was Master of Trinity from 1841 until his death, and he held the office of Vice-Chancellor of the Univ. in 1843 and 1856. W. was remarkable as the possessor of an encyclopædic fund of knowledge, perhaps unprecedented, and he was the author of a number of works of great importance on a variety of subjects. Among the chief of these may be mentioned his Bridgewater Treatise on Astronomy and General Physics considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1833), History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), Essay on Plurality of Worlds (anonymously), Elements of Morality (1845), History of Moral Philosophy in England ​(1852), and Platonic Dialogues. In addition to these he wrote innumerable articles, reviews, and scientific papers. It was as a co-ordinator of knowledge and the researches of others that W. excelled; he was little of an original observer or discoverer. He is described as a large, strong, erect man with a red face and a loud voice, and he was an overwhelming and somewhat arrogant talker.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whichcote, Benjamin

​Whichcote, Benjamin (1609-1683).—Divine, belonged to a good Shropshire family, and was at Camb., where he became Provost of King's Coll., of which office he was deprived at the Restoration. He was of liberal views, and is reckoned among the Camb. Platonists over whom he exercised great influence. His works consist of Discourses and Moral and Religious Aphorisms. In 1668 he was presented to the living of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London, which he held until his death.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/White, Gilbert

​White, Gilbert (1720-1793).—Naturalist, b. at Selborne, Hants, and ed. along with the Wartons (q.v.) at their father's school at Basingstoke, and thereafter at Oxf., entered the Church, and after holding various curacies settled, in 1755, at Selborne. He became the friend and correspondent of Pennant the naturalist (q.v.), and other men of science, and pub. in the form of letters the work which has made him immortal, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). He was never m., but was in love with the well-known bluestocking Hester Mulso, afterwards Mrs. Chapone, who rejected him. He had four brothers, all more or less addicted to the study of natural history.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/White, Henry Kirke

​White, Henry Kirke (1785-1806).—Poet, s. of a butcher at Nottingham. At first assisting his f., next a stocking weaver, he was afterwards placed in the office of an attorney. Some contributions to a newspaper introduced him to the notice of Capel Lofft, a patron of promising youths, by whose help he brought out a vol. of poems, which fell into the hands of Southey, who wrote to him. Thereafter friends raised a fund to send him to Camb., where he gave brilliant promise. Overwork, however, undermined a constitution originally delicate, and he d. at 21. Southey wrote a short memoir ​of him with some additional poems. His chief poem was the Christiad, a fragment. His best known production is the hymn, "Much in sorrow, oft in Woe."
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/White, Joseph Blanco

​White, Joseph Blanco (1775-1841).—Poet, s. of a merchant, an Irish Roman Catholic resident at Seville, where he was b., became a priest, but lost his religious faith and came to England, where he conducted a Spanish newspaper having for its main object the fanning of the flame of Spanish patriotism against the French invasion, which was subsidised by the English Government. He again embraced Christianity, and entered the Church of England, but latterly became a Unitarian. He wrote, among other works, Internal Evidences against Catholicism (1825), and Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in search of a Religion, in answer to T. Moore's work, Travels, etc. His most permanent contribution to literature, however, is his single sonnet on "Night," which Coleridge considered "the finest and most grandly conceived" in our language.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whipple, Edwin Percy

​Whipple, Edwin Percy (1819-1886).—Essayist and critic, b. in Massachusetts, was a brilliant and discriminating critic. His works include Character and Characteristic Men, Literature and Life, Success and its Conditions, Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, Literature and Politics, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/White, Richard Grant

​White, Richard Grant (1822-1885).—Shakespearian scholar, b. in New York State, was long Chief of the Revenue Marine Bureau, and was one of the most acute students and critics of Shakespeare, of whose works he pub. two ed., the first in 1865, and the second (the Riverside) in 1883. He also wrote Words and their Uses, Memoirs of Shakespeare, Studies in Shakespeare, The New Gospel of Peace (a satire), The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys (novel), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whiston, William

​Whiston, William (1667-1752).—Theologian, and man of science, b. at Norton, Leicestershire, and ed. at Camb., where he succeeded Newton as Lucasian Prof. of Mathematics, was a prominent advocate of the Newtonian system, and wrote a Theory of the Earth against the views of Thomas Burnet (q.v.). He also wrote several theological works, Primitive Christianity Revived and the Primitive New Testament. The Arian views promulgated in the former led to his expulsion from the Univ. His best known work was his translation of Josephus. He was a kindly and honest, but eccentric and impracticable man, and an insatiable controversialist.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whitehead, Charles

​Whitehead, Charles (1804-1862).—Poet, novelist, and dramatist; is specially remembered for three works, all of which met with popular favour: The Solitary (1831), a poem, The Autobiography of Jack Ketch (1834), a novel, and The Cavalier (1836), a play in blank verse. He recommended Dickens for the writing of the letterpress for R. Seymour's drawings, which ultimately developed into The Pickwick Papers.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Five "Tzǔ-yeh" Songs

FIVE "TZŬ-YEH" SONGS
At the time when blossoms
Fall from the cherry-tree:
On a day when yellow birds
Hovered in the branches —
You said you must stop,
Because your horse was tired:
I said I must go,
Because my silkworms were hungry.
All night I could not sleep
Because of the moonlight on my bed.
I kept on hearing a voice calling:
Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered "yes."
I will carry my coat and not put on my belt;
With unpainted eyebrows I will stand at the front window.
My tiresome petticoat keeps on flapping about;
If it opens a little, I shall blame the spring wind.
I heard my love was going to Yang-chou
And went with him as far as Ch'u-shan.
For a moment when you held me fast in your outstretched arms I thought the river stood still and did not flow.
I have brought my pillow and am lying at the northern window, So come to me and play with me awhile.
With so much quarrelling and so few kisses
How long do you think our love can last?
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River

FLOWERS AND MOONLIGHT ON THE SPRING RIVER
By Yang-ti [605–617], emperor of the Sui dynasty
The evening river is level and motionless —
The spring colours just open to their full. Suddenly a wave carries the moon away And the tidal water comes with its freight of stars.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Front Matter

A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY CHINESE POEMS
Translations by ARTHUR WALEY
A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY CHINESE POEMS MORE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE THE NŌ PLAYS OF JAPAN
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Published, May, 1919 Second Printing, September, 1919 Third Printing, March, 1920 Fourth Printing, November, 1923
SET UP AND ELECTROTYPED BY THE VAIL-BALLOU CO., BINGHAMPTON, N. Y. PRINTED BY PLIMPTON PRESS, NORWOOD, MASS., ON WARREN'S INDIA TINT OLDE STYLE PAPER. BOUND BY PLIMPTON PRESS, NORWOOD, MASS.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Dreaming of a Dead Lady

DREAMING OF A DEAD LADY
"I heard at night your long sighs And knew that you were thinking of me." As she spoke, the doors of Heaven opened
And our souls conversed and I saw her face.
She set me a pillow to rest on
And she brought me meat and drink.
I stood beside her where she lay, But suddenly woke and she was not there:
And none knew how my soul was torn, How the tears fell surging over my breast.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Golden Bells

GOLDEN BELLS
When I was almost forty
I had a daughter whose name was Golden Bells. Now it is just a year since she was born;
She is learning to sit and cannot yet talk. Ashamed, — to find that I have not a sage's heart:
I cannot resist vulgar thoughts and feelings. Henceforward I am tied to things outside myself:
My only reward, — the pleasure I am getting now. If I am spared the grief of her dying young,
Then I shall have the trouble of getting her married. My plan for retiring and going back to the hills
Must now be postponed for fifteen years!
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Dreaming of Yüan Chēn

DREAMING OF YÜAN CHĒN
This was written eight years after Yüan Chēn's deaths when Po-Chü'i was sixty-eight.
At night you came and took my hand and we wandered together in my dream; When I woke in the morning there was no one to stop the tears that fell on my handkerchief. On the banks of the Ch'ang my aged body three times has passed through sickness; At Hsien-yang to the grasses on your grave eight times has autumn come. You lie buried beneath the springs and your bones are mingled with the clay. I — lodging in the world of men; my hair white as snow. A-wei and Han-lang both followed in their turn;
Among the shadows of the Terrace of Night did you know them or not?
* ↑ Since you died.
* ↑ Near Ch'ang-an, modern Si-ngan-fu.
* ↑ Affectionate names of Li Chien and Ts'ui Hsüan-liang.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Ease

EASE
Congratulating himself on the comforts of his life after his retirement from office. Written circa 844.
Lined coat, warm cap and easy felt slippers.
In the little tower, at the low window, sitting over the sunken brazier.
Body at rest, heart at peace; no need to rise early.
I wonder if the courtiers at the Western Capital know of these things, or not?
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Eating Bamboo-shoots

EATING BAMBOO-SHOOTS
My new province is a land of bamboo-groves:
Their shoots in spring fill the valleys and hills. The mountain woodman cuts an armful of them
And brings them down to sell at the early market. Things are cheap in proportion as they are common;
For two farthings, I buy a whole bundle. I put the shoots in a great earthen pot
And heat them up along with boiling rice. The purple nodules broken,— like an old brocade;
The white skin opened,— like new pearls. Now every day I eat them recklessly;
For a long time I have not touched meat. All the time I was living at Lo-yang
They could not give me enough to suit my taste, Now I can have as many shoots as I please;
For each breath of the south-wind makes a new bamboo!
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Fighting South of the Castle

FIGHTING SOUTH OF THE CASTLE
Anon. [circa 124 B. C.]
They fought south of the Castle, They died north of the wall. They died in the moors and were not buried. Their flesh was the food of crows. "Tell the crows we are not afraid; We have died in the moors and cannot be buried. Crows, how can our bodies escape you?" The waters flowed deep And the rushes in the pool were dark. The riders fought and were slain: Their horses wander neighing. By the bridge there was a house. Was it south, was it north? The harvest was never gathered. How can we give you your offerings? You served your Prince faithfully, Though all in vain. I think of you, faithful soldiers; Your service shall not be forgotten. For in the morning you went out to battle And at night you did not return.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Going to the Mountains with a little Dancing Girl, aged Fifteen

GOING TO THE MOUNTAINS WITH A LITTLE DANCING GIRL, AGED FIFTEEN
Written when the poet was about sixty-five
Two top-knots not yet plaited into one. Of thirty years — just beyond half. You who are really a lady of silks and satins Are now become my hill and stream companion! At the spring fountains together we splash and play: On the lovely trees together we climb and sport. Her cheeks grow rosy, as she quickens her sleeve-dancing: Her brows grow sad, as she slows her song's tune. Don't go singing the song of the Willow Branches, When there's no one here with a heart for you to break!
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wynyard, William Rowley

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​WYNYARD. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
William Rowley Wynyard entered th« Navy 4 Sept. 1817; passed his examination in 1825; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 26 Oct. 1826. He served in the Coast Guard from 3 March, 1836, until the close of 1839. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Yates, James Thomas

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​YATES. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
James Thomas Yates entered the Navy, 15 Jan. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pompée 74, Capt. Rich. Dacres; in which ship we find him present, under the flag of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, at the defence of Gaeta, the reduction of the island of Capri, the passage of the Dardanells, and the destruction of the French squadron at Point Pesquies. In the summer of 1807 he accompanied Admiral Gambier in the expedition against Copenhagen. After serving for a short time at Chatham as Midshipman in the Victory 100, he joined, in May, 1810, the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Sir W. S. Smith on the coast of Brazil. In Nov. of the same year he was received on board the Manilla 36, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour, attached to the force on the Lisbon station. He was subsequently sent into port in a prize; during his absence in which vessel the Manilla, under the command at the time of Capt. Jolin Joyce, was wrecked off the Texel, 28 Jan. 1812. He was afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June, 1814, employed in the Impétueux 74, Stately 64, and Rodney 74, flag-ship of the late Sir Geo. Martin off Lisbon. He has since (with the exception of a few months in 1838, during which he had charge of a station in the Coast Guard) been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Yonge, Frederick Duke

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​YONGE. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Frederick Duke Yonge is third son of the late Rev. Duke Yonge, Vicar of Antony, co. Cornwall; grandson of the Rev. Duke Yonge, Vicar of Cornwood, who married a daughter of Sir Thos. Crawley Boevey, Bart., of Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester; and nephew of Capt. Geo. Crawley, R.N., who died in 1810.
This officer entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 11 Aug. 1833; served in the Mediterranean, at Plymouth, on the North America and West India station, and again in the Mediterranean, as Mate, in the Princess Charlotte 104 and Caledonia 120, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford and Sir Graham Moore, Rover 18, Capt, Chas. Keele, and Warspite 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 May, 1845. He was appointed, 16 Oct. following, to the Avon steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Henry Mangles Denham, on the coast of Africa; and has been employed, since 2 March, 1847, in the Queen 110, Capts. Sir Henry John Leeke and Henry Wm. Bruce, at Devonport and on his former station, the Mediterranean.