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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whitman, Walter or Walt

​Whitman, Walter or Walt (1819-1892).—Poet, was b. at Huntingdon, Long Island, New York. His mother was of Dutch descent, and the farm on which he was b. had been in the possession of his father's family since the early settlement. His first education was received at Brooklyn, to which his f. had removed while W. was a young child. At 13 he was in a printing office, at 17 he was teaching and writing for the newspapers, and at 21 was editing one. The next dozen years were passed in desultory work as a printer with ​occasional literary excursions, but apparently mainly in "loafing" and observing his fellow-creatures. It was not till 1855 that his first really characteristic work, Leaves of Grass, appeared. This first ed. contained only 12 poems. Notwithstanding its startling departures from conventionality both in form and substance it was well received by the leading literary reviews and, with certain reserves to be expected, it was welcomed by Emerson. It did not, however, achieve general acceptance, and was received with strong and not unnatural protest in many quarters. When a later ed. was called for Emerson unsuccessfully endeavoured to persuade the author to suppress the more objectionable parts. On the outbreak of the Civil War W. volunteered as a nurse for the wounded, and rendered much useful service. The results of his experiences and observations were given in verse in Drum Taps and The Wound Dresser, and in prose in Specimen Days. From these scenes he was removed by his appointment to a Government clerkship, from which, however, he was soon dismissed on the ground of having written books of an immoral tendency. This action of the authorities led to a somewhat warm controversy, and after a short interval W. received another Government appointment, which he held until 1873, when he had a paralytic seizure, which rendered his retirement necessary. Other works besides those mentioned are Two Rivulets and Democratic Vistas. In his later years he retired to Camden, New Jersey, where he d. W. is the most unconventional of writers. Revolt against all convention was in fact his self-proclaimed mission. In his versification he discards rhyme almost entirely, and metre as generally understood. And in his treatment of certain passions and appetites, and of unadulterated human nature, he is at war with what he considered the conventions of an effeminate society, in which, however, he adopts a mode of utterance which many people consider equally objectionable, overlooking, as he does, the existence through all the processes of nature of a principle of reserve and concealment. Amid much that is prosaic and rhetorical, however, it remains true that there is real poetic insight and an intense and singularly fresh sense of nature in the best of his writings.
Works, 12 vols., with Life. See Stedman's Poets of America. Monographs by Symonds, Clarke, and Salter.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whittier, John Greenleaf

​Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892).—Poet, was b. at Haverhill, Massachusetts, of a Quaker family. In early life he worked on a farm. His later years were occupied partly in journalism, partly in farming, and he seems also to have done a good deal of local political work. He began to write verse at a very early age, and continued to do so until almost his latest days. He was always a champion of the anti-slavery cause, and by his writings both as journalist and poet, did much to stimulate national feeling in the direction of freedom. Among his poetical works are Voices of Freedom (1836), Songs of Labour (1851), Home Ballads (1859), In War Time (1863), Snow Bound (1866), The Tent on the Beach (1867), ​Ballads of New England (1870), The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1874). W. had true feeling and was animated by high ideals. Influenced in early life by the poems of Burns, he became a poet of nature, with which his early upbringing brought him into close and sympathetic contact; he was also a poet of faith and the ideal life and of liberty. He, however, lacked concentration and intensity, and his want of early education made him often loose in expression and faulty in form; and probably a comparatively small portion of what he wrote will live.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wiclif, or Wyclif, John

​Wiclif, or Wyclif, John (1320?-1384).—Theologian and translator of the Bible, b. near Richmond, Yorkshire, studied at Balliol Coll., Oxf., of which he became in 1361 master, and taking orders, became Vicar of Fillingham, Lincolnshire, when he resigned his mastership, and in 1361 Prebendary of Westbury. By this time he had written a treatise on logic, and had won some position as a man of learning. In 1372 he took the degree of Doctor of Theology, and became Canon of Lincoln, and in 1374 was sent to Bruges as one of a commission to treat with Papal delegates as to certain ecclesiastical matters in dispute, and in the same year he became Rector of Lutterworth, where he remained until his death. His liberal and patriotic views on the questions in dispute between England and the Pope gained for him the favour of John of Gaunt and Lord Percy, who accompanied him when, in 1377, he was summoned before the ecclesiastical authorities at St. Paul's. The Court was broken up by an inroad of the London mob, and no sentence was passed upon him. Another trial at Lambeth in the next year was equally inconclusive. By this time W. had taken up a position definitely antagonistic to the Papal system. He organised his institution of poor preachers, and initiated his great enterprise of translating the Scriptures into English. His own share of the work was the Gospels, probably the whole of the New Testament and possibly part of the Old. The; whole work was ed. by John Purvey, an Oxf. friend, who had joined him at Lutterworth, the work being completed by 1400. In 1380 W. openly rejected the doctrine of transubstantiation, and was forbidden to teach at Oxf., where he had obtained great influence. In 1382 a Court was convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, which passed sentence of condemnation upon his views. It says much for the position which he had attained, and for the power of his supporters, that he was permitted to depart from Oxf. and retire to Lutterworth, where, worn out by his labours and anxieties, he d. of paralytic seizure on the last day of 1384. His enemies, baffled in their designs against him while living, consoled themselves by ​disinterring his bones in 1428 and throwing them into the river Swift, of which Thomas Fuller (q.v.) has said, "Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the Narrow Seas, they into the main ocean, and thus the ashes of Wicliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." The works of W. were chiefly controversial or theological and, as literature, have no great importance, but his translation of the Bible had indirectly a great influence not only by tending to fix the language, but in a far greater degree by furthering the moral and intellectual emancipation on which true literature is essentially founded.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilde, Oscar O'Flaherty

​Wilde, Oscar O'Flaherty (1856-1900).—Poet and dramatist, s. of Sir William W., the eminent surgeon, was b. at Dublin, and ed. there at Trinity Coll. and at Oxf. He was one of the founders of the modern cult of the æsthetic. Among his writings are Poems (1881), The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel, and several plays, including Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of no Importance, and The Importance of being Earnest. He was convicted of a serious offence, and after his release from prison went abroad and d. at Paris. Coll. ed. of his works, 12 vols., 1909.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whitney, William Dwight

​Whitney, William Dwight (1827–1894).—Philologist, b. at Northampton, Mass., was Prof. of Sanskrit, etc., at Yale, and chief ed. of the Century Dictionary. Among his books are Darwinism and Language and The Life and Growth of Language.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whyte-Melville, George John

​Whyte-Melville, George John (1821-1878).—Novelist, s. of a country gentleman of Fife, ed. at Eton, entered the army, and saw service in the Crimea, retiring in 1859 as Major. Thereafter he devoted himself to field sports, in which he was an acknowledged authority, and to literature. He wrote a number of novels, mainly founded on sporting subjects, though a few were historical. They include Kate Coventry, The Queen's Maries, The Gladiators, and Satanella. He also wrote Songs and Verses and The True Cross, a religious poem. He d. from an accident in the hunting-field.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilkes, John

​Wilkes, John (1727-1797).—Politician, s. of a distiller in London, was ed. at Leyden. Witty, resourceful, but unprincipled and profligate, he became from circumstances the representative and champion of important political principles, including that of free representation in Parliament. His writings have nothing of the brilliance and point of his social exhibitions, but his paper, The North Briton, and especially the famous "No. 45," in which he charged George III. with uttering a falsehood in his speech from the throne, caused so much excitement, and led to such important results that they give him a place in literature. He also wrote a highly offensive Essay on Woman. W. was expelled the House of Commons and outlawed, but such was the strength of the cause which he championed that, notwithstanding the worthlessness of his character, his right to sit in the House was ultimately admitted in 1774, and he continued to sit until 1790. He was also Lord Mayor of London.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whitehead, William

​Whitehead, William (1715-1785).—Poet, s. of a baker at Camb., and ed. at Winchester School and Camb., became tutor in the family of the Earl of Jersey, and retained the favour of the family through life. In 1757 he succeeded Colley Cibber as Poet Laureate. He wrote plays of only moderate quality, including The Roman Father and Creusa, tragedies, and The School for Lovers, a comedy; also poems, The Enthusiast and Variety. His official productions as Laureate were severely attacked, which drew from him in reply A Charge to the Poets.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilberforce, William

​Wilberforce, William (1759-1833).—Philanthropist and religious writer, s. of a merchant, was b. at Hull, ed. at Camb., entered Parliament as member for his native town, became the intimate friend of Pitt, and was the leader of the crusade against the slave-trade and slavery. His chief literary work was his Practical View of Christianity, which had remarkable popularity and influence, but he wrote continually and with effect on the religious and philanthropic objects to which he had devoted his life.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilcox, Carles

​Wilcox, Carles (1794-1827).—Poet, b. at Newport, N. H., was a Congregationalist minister. He wrote a poem, The Age of Benevolence, which was left unfinished, and which bears manifest traces of the influence of Cowper.
# A Wanderer's Song

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A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,
I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels;
I hunger for the sea's edge, the limit of the land,
Where the wild old Atlantic is shouting on the sand.
Oh I'll be going, leaving the noises of the street,
To where a lifting foresail-foot is yanking at the sheet;
To a windy, tossing anchorage where yawls and ketches ride,
Oh I'll be going, going, until I meet the tide.
And first I'll hear the sea-wind, the mewing of the gulls,
The clucking, sucking of the sea about the rusty hulls,
The songs at the capstan at the hooker warping out,
And then the heart of me'll know I'm there or thereabout.
Oh I am sick of brick and stone, the heart of me is sick,
For windy green, unquiet sea, the realm of Moby Dick;
And I'll be going, going, from the roaring of the wheels,
For a wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels.
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# A War Savings Association

A
WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION
HAS BEEN FORMED
AT THIS
ESTABLISHMENT
Hand in your Names
FOR THE NATION
HELPS ON THE WAR
15s 6d yields 20s IN FIVE YEARS
DO IT NOW!
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# Ainslee's Magazine/The Dark Veil

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Opal Fawcett was of the type of woman who will go to any length for love a while she succeeded in menacing the happiness of a number of people by careful planning, but the frustration of her carefully pitifully broken woman.
The Dark Veil
By C. N. and A. M. Williamson
Authors of “The Lightning Conductor,” “The Second Latchkey,” etc.
* Chapter I 1
* Chapter II 8
* Chapter III 13
* Chapter IV 18
* Chapter V 22
* Chapter VI 27
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# Acker v. United States

United States Supreme Court
298 U.S. 426
Acker v. United States
Argued: March 3-6, 1936. --- Decided: May 18, 1936
mS.CT825mMessrs. George I. Haight and John S. Boyd, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellants.
Mr. John Dickinson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Ackerlind v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
240 U.S. 531
Ackerlind v. United States
Argued: March 15, 1916. --- Decided: April 3, 1916
Messrs. George A. King and William B. King for appellant.
Assistant Attorney General Thompson for appellee.
[Argument of Counsel from page 532 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Achilles in the Trench

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I saw a man this morning
Who did not wish to die;
I ask, and cannot answer,
If otherwise wish I.
Fair broke the day this morning
Upon the Dardanelles:
The breeze blew soft, the morn's cheeks
Were cold as cold sea-shells.
But other shells are waiting Across the Aegean Sea;
Shrapnel and high explosives,
Shells and hells for me.
Oh Hell of ships and cities,
Hell of men like me,
Fatal second Helen,
Why must I follow thee?
Achilles came to Troyland
And I to Chersonese;
He turned from wrath to battle,
And I from three days' peace.
Was it so hard, Achilles,
So very hard to die?
Thou knowest, and I know not;
So much the happier am I.
I will go back this morning
From Imbros o'er the sea.
Stand in the trench, Achilles,
Flame-capped, and shout for me.
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# Address to the Evening Star

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* "Address to the Evening Star", a poem by Augusta Baldwyn
* "Address to the Evening Star", a poem by Adeline Martha Nealds
# Address to the Moon

How sweet the silver Moon's pale ray, Falls trembling on the distant bay, O'er which the breezes sigh no more, Nor billows lash the sounding shore. Say, do the eyes of those I love, Behold thee as thou soar'st above, Lonely, majestic and serene, The calm and placid evening's Queen? Say, if upon thy peaceful breast, Departed spirits find their rest, For who would wish a fairer home, Than in that bright, refulgent dome?
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# Against the Gate of Life

* "Against the Gate of Life" in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine Volume 86 (December 1910).
* "Against the Gate of Life" in The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912).

## See also by Mrs. Coates

* "To Helen Keller" (1904)
* "Helen Keller with a Rose" (1909)
# A Texas Ranger/Foreword

FOREWORD TO YE GENTLE READER.
Within the memory of those of us still on the sunny side of forty the more remote West has passed from rollicking boyhood to its responsible majority. The frontier has gone to join the good Indian. In place of the ranger who patrolled the border for "bad men" has come the forest ranger, type of the forward lapping tide of civilization. The place where I write this—Tucson, Arizona—is now essentially more civilized than New York. Only at the moving picture shows can the old West, melodramatically overpainted, be shown to the manicured sons and daughters of those, still living, who brought law and order to the mesquite.
As Arthur Chapman, the Western poet, has written:
No loopholes now are framing Lean faces, grim and brown; No more keen eyes are aiming To bring the redskin down.
The plough team's trappings jingle Across the furrowed field, And sounds domestic mingle Where valor hung its shield.
But every wind careering Seems here to breathe a song— A song of brave frontiering— A saga of the strong.
# A Texas Ranger

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A Romance (adventure) set in the American Old West. Or rather, two interlinked stories about a Texas Ranger, Steve Fraser, who is pursuing a murderer, an escaped convict. Curiously, in the first story he plays second fiddle.
[First published 1910. Advertising pages at the end to be added later.]
A TEXAS RANGER
BY
WILLIAM MacLeod RAINE
AUTHOR OF
VYOMING, BUCKY O'CONNOR, MAVERICKS,
RIDGWAY OF MONTANA, ETC.
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
page
Copyright, 1910, by
STREET & SMITH
Copyright, 1910, by
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
A TEXAS RANGER
                PART I
    THE MAN FROM PANHANDLE
* I. A DESERT MEETING
* II. LIEUTENANT FRASER INTERFERES
* III. A DISCOVERY
* IV. LOST!
* V. LARRY NEILL TO THE RESCUE
* VI. SOMEBODY'S ACTING MIGHTY FOOLISH
* VII. ENTER MR. DUNKE
* VIII. WOULD YOU WORRY ABOUT ME?
* IX. DOWN THE JACKRABBIT SHAFT
* X. IN A TUNNEL OF THE MAL PAIS
* XI. THE SOUTHERNER TAKES A RISK
* XII. EXIT DUNKE
* XIII. STEVE OFFERS CONGRATULATIONS
                PART II
    THE GIRL OF LOST VALLEY
* I. IN THE FIRE ZONE
* II. A COMPACT
* III. INTO LOST VALLEY
* IV. THE WARNING OF MANTRAP GULCH
* V. JED BRISCOE TAKES A HAND
* VI. A SURE ENOUGH WOLF
* VII. THE ROUND-UP
* VIII. THE BRONCHO BUSTERS
* IX. A SHOT FROM BALD KNOB
* X. DOC LEE
* XI. THE FAT IN THE FIRE
* XII. THE DANCE
* XIII. THE WOLF HOWLS
* XIV. HOWARD EXPLAINS
* XV. THE TEXAN PAYS A VISIT
* XVI. THE WOLF BITES
* XVII. ON THE ROAD TO GIMLET BUTTE
* XVIII. A WITNESS IN REBUTTAL
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# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbridge, John (2)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbridge, John, s. John, 'doctoris.' St. Alban Hall, matric. 18 Feb., 1627-8, aged 16; B.A. 18 Feb., 1627-8, M.A. 3 June, 1630, one of these names vicar of Ashburnham, Sussex, 1632. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbrigg, Wellesborne

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​Bainbrigg, Wellesborne, s. Robert, of Shelswell, Oxon, pleb. Pembroke Coll., matric. 30 June, 1626, aged 15.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbrigge, John

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbrigge, John, s. John, of Lockington, co. Leicester, arm. Hart Hall, matric. 2 July, 1707, aged 17; B.A. 1711, M.A. 20 March, 1713-14, rector of Walton-on-the-Wold, co. Leicester, 1729, brother of William, 1703.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbrigge, Reginald

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbrigge, Reginald, of Westmorland, pleb. Queen's Coll., matric.-entry under date 1572, aged 24; Taberdar 1575, B.A. 4 July, 1576, M.A. 10 July, 1579, one of these names vicar Bumsted Steeple, Essex, 1582. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus & O.H.S., xii. 61; for a contemporary of this name see Cooper, ii. 439; & D.N.B.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbridge, Christopher

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbridge, Christopher, provost of Queen's Coll. 1495, bishop of Durham 1507-9, and archbishop of York 1509-14. See Ath., ii. 702; & Cooper, i. 15.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbridge, Thomas (2)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbridge, Thomas, fellow Trinity Coll., Cambridge, B.A. 1654, M.A. 1661, 'per Literas Regias' (incorp. 12 July, 1669), proctor 1678, D.D. ('per Literas Regias') 1684, vice-master of his college, vicar of Barrington 1664, and of Chesterton 1679-87, rector of Orwell 1700-3, all in co. Cambridge. See Fasti, ii. 313; D.N.B. & Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbrigg, John

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbrigg, John, s. William, of Watling, Sussex, gent. Wadham Coll., matric. 14 July, 1677, aged 16; subscribed as Bonbrigg, B.A. from University Coll. 1681, M.A. 1684, B. Med. 1688.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbrigge, William (1)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbrigge, William (Bainbridge), s. William, of Lockington, co. Leicester, arm. Magdalen Hall, matric. 27 March, 1685, aged 17, of the Old Hall, co. Leicester, died 14 Aug., 1705.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbridge, John (1)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbridge, John, D.Med. Cantab. (? B.A. from Emanuel Coll., 1603, M.A. 1607, D. Med. 1614), incorp. 7 July, 1620, from Worcester Coll. (s. Robert, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch), Savilian prof. of astronomy 1621-43, superior Linacre reader 1635, died 3 Nov., 1643, buried in Merton College Chapel. See Munk's Roll, i. 175; Ath., iii. 67; D.N.B. & Gutch., i. 20.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bainbridge, Thomas (1)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bainbridge, Thomas, M.A., Cambridge, incorp. 12 July, 1603, possibly the master of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1620-46, vice-chancellor 1627, died at Cambridge, Sept., 1646. See D.N.B. & Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.