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# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Autumn Sunset (Leconte de Lisle)

Sonnet.—AUTUMN SUNSET.
LECONTE DE LISLE.
The wind of autumn has its course begun! With lamentations strange and sad adieus Like far sea-murmurs, in the avenues It sways the heavy branches; these have won A tinge of evening's rich vermilion, And balanced, shed their leaves of various hues; Look at these nests the birds no longer use! And look—oh, look at the departing sun! Depart, O Sun! Light's fountain! Nature's choice! And let thy glory like a blood-stream pure Flow from thy wounds, but in thy death rejoice! Thou shalt arise again! Thy hope is sure! But for a broken heart, with potent voice Who shall again a lease of life procure?
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet (Émile Deschamps)

SONNET.
ÉMILE DESCHAMPS.
When Time, the changer of all men and things, On this bright spot shall cast the shroud of years, When all these oaks and firs he now reveres He shall hurl down, to bloom no more in springs, Shall History mount on its exultant wings, Amid the chaos that transforms and sears, To paint the past,—the wood that now appears, The hunt,—the picnic,—and the pomp of kings? I know not;—but my verse shall strive to say To men unborn, that here at Mortfontaine Two months she past, which vanished like a day; Flowers in her presence bloomed as after rain, Birds sang, deer sported; hence to poets, aye The place is dear, and lovers that complain.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—A Noble Exile (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet—A NOBLE EXILE.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
Born in the ancient castle, there he grew Where all his sires had ruled lands fair and wide, And she who was his love, his promised bride, Of the same blood, was to her kinsman true. All that men long for, all they ever rue When unattained, was his, no gift denied, And he left all. Fierce rushed the torrent tide And whirled the plant to climes it never knew. Beneath a stranger's roof in foreign lands He died, but never questioned the commands, However stern, of Honour, no, nor weighed His fortune with his conscience. Much he lost, But nobly strove to act as Duty bade, And that one happiness was worth the cost.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet 1 (Ferdinand de Gramont)

SONNET.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
All men for pleasant places are not born, The world for each is open every way: There are, who in the wild prefer to stay, Love its free air, and solitudes forlorn; Like the wild horse, they hold the towns in scorn; The torrents slake their thirst; the woods display Fit provender; their roof skies blue or gray; No yoke or manger for the unicorn! On some hill-top they ruminate in peace Their fierce strange thoughts, a melancholy train. When men inquire about them, God says, Cease! Oh, harm them not, or woe! From bit and rein I—I have given their stubborn mouths release, Of me their exile—rich in fruit or vain!
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet 3 (Ferdinand de Gramont)

SONNET.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
Often of old, in Germany and France, A knight enamoured of a fair unknown, Put on his mail, and sallied forth alone To search her, through the boundless earth's expanse. His visor down, in rest his glittering lance, He left behind the land he called his own, And rocks and vales with flowers beloved strewn, Until he met his heroine by chance. Adventurous thus, in shores beyond the sea, My bride of steel I seek, and cares discard, And well my heart's whole love may rest in thee, Sword, parted from me by a fate too hard, For from thy point blood-tarnished flashes free A lightning ever, answering my regard.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—A Character of the Olden Time (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet.—A CHARACTER OF THE OLDEN TIME.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
A valiant heart, simple, correct, austere, Hewn from the solid rock, sincere as gold, Straight as an iron rod,—a man of old, Whose noble nature never knew a fear. Adulterate interests from his duty clear He chased afar; his conscience never sold; Dared dangers terrible and manifold, And when they ended, dropped into the rear. Under the antique flag, how prompt his lance! But not the less his hate of foreign rule, Gentleman, subject of the King of France, Upon the Rhine, in Lyon's noble school, In Vendée, and Wherever he had chance, He shed his blood, faithful, and yet no tool.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—A Vision (Auguste de Belloy)

Sonnet.—A VISION.
A. DE BELLOY.
Loving at twelve years old a cousin young, And gaining nothing at the sport but tears, I said that God, who all things sees and hears, Shall see me carve, the forest-boughs among, Her name to-day. Over an abyss there clung A tree: I chose it, and with hopes and fears Reached its slant summit. 'Now through all the years,' Said I descending, 'shall this token hung Witness my love,' but sudden, clothed in white, A lady fair whom I had never seen Stood at my side: 'What thou hast done is right, But in thy heart will nothing low or mean This love efface or leastwise shade and screen? Place that love, rather, on a pure, safe height!'
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Home, James Everard

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​HOME, Bart., C.B., F.R.S. (Captain, 1837.)
Sir James Everard Home, born 25 Oct. 1793, in London, is son of the late Sir Everard Home, Bart., F.R.S., Sergeant-Surgeon to the King, and Physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, by Jane, daughter and heiress of Jas. Tunstall, Esq., D.D., and widow of Stephen Thompson, Esq.; nephew of Capt. Wm. Home, E.I.C.S., and of John Hunter, Esq., Surgeon-General to the Army; and brother-in-law of Capt. Henry Forbes, R.N., and of the late Capt. Bernard Yeoman, R.N. He succeeded his father, as second Baronet, 31 Aug. 1832.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 April, 1810, as Midshipman, on board the Euryalus frigate, Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas. Proceeding in that ship to the Mediterranean, he there joined, in Aug. 1812, the Malta 80, bearing the flag of Sir Benj. Hallowell, with whom, subsequently to the peace, he served at Cork on board the Tonnant 80. On his ultimate arrival in the West Indies in the Sybille frigate, bearing the flag of Sir Home Popham, he was promoted, 14 July, 1814, to a Lieutenancy in the Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe, and next appointed to the Pique 36, Capt. John Mackellar. After a further servitude of eight months on the Home station in the Helicon 10, Capt. Wm. Robt. Dawkins, he succeeded in obtaining a second promotal commission, dated 28 Jan. 1822, but he did not again go afloat until Feb. 1834, on 1 of which month we find him assuming command of the Racehorse 18, fitting for the West Indies. He acquired his present rank soon after he had been paid off; 5 Dec. 1837; and he was lastly, from 30 Aug. 1841, until the summer of 1846, employed in the East Indies on board the North Star 26. During the period he commanded the latter ship Sir Jas. Everard Home contributed to the capture of Woosung and Shanghae, and participated in the operations on the Tang-tse-Kiang – services for which he was nominated a C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. In Dec. 1845, when Senior Naval Officer at New Zealand, he originated the instructions which were afterwards adopted by Capt. Chas. Graham, during whose siege of Kawiti’s stronghold, as detailed in our memoir of that officer, he was intrusted with, and behaved with unwearied zeal, exertion, and attention at, the defence of a pah situated at the point of debarkation, six miles up the river and 12 from the pah destroyed.
Sir J. E. Home was elected a F.R.S. in 1825.
* ↑ The Racehorse took an active part in the siege of Paiaa in 1835, and was for several days in contest with the batteries, in company with a Brazilian squadron.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 3391, 3404.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 2345, 2347.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hookey, James

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​HOOKEY. (Lieut., 1828. f-p., 17; h-p., 16.)
James Hookey, born 31 Dec. 1798, at Portsea, is son of Wm. Hookey, Esq., late Timber Master of H.M. Dockyard at Deptford.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Feb. 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Newcastle 60, Capts. Lord Geo. Stuart, Sam. Roberts, and Henry Meynell, in which ship we find him employed, on the North America and West India stations, half the time as Midshipman, until Jan. 1816. From the following Aug. until Sept. 1817 he served on Lake Erie in the Confiance, Capt. Dan. Pring. He was next, during the summer-months of 1818, engaged on Home duty, in the Weymouth 12, Master-Commander Turner; after which he was borne, between May, 1819, and Jan. 1823, on the books of the Swan 6, Lieut.-Commanders Thos. Dilnot Stewart and Benj. Aplin. In 1822 he elicited the thanks of Capt. John Toup Nicolas, the Senior officer, and of the Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for his conduct in command of the boats of that vessel during a severe dispute which had there broken out between the keelmen and the shipmasters and shipowners. After a servitude of three years on the Home and Mediterranean stations on board the Tribune 42, Capt. Gardiner Henry Guion, Mr. Hookey, in Feb. 1826, joined the Prince Regent 120, bearing the flag at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom. Early in the following year he became Admiralty Midshipman of the Barham 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming in the West Indies, where (having passed his examination in March, 1822) he was constituted, 14 Sept. 1828, First-Lieutenant of the Slaney 20, Capt. Joseph O’Brien. He invalided home in May, 1829, but, returning to the same station in the next Dec, was further appointed to the Magnificent receiving-ship at Port Royal, Jamaica, Capts. Smith and Gill. On 21 March, 1831, he was transferred to the command of the Kangaroo schooner. He came home and was paid off in Aug. 1833, and has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Hookey was presented, in 1827, by the “Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c.,” with a large silver medal for his invention of an improved log-ship. He married, 15 Jan. 1839, Mary, third daughter of John M‘Coy, Esq., of the Royal Artillery, and sister of Capt. John M‘Coy, of the same corps. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hood, Arthur William Acland

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​HOOD. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Arthur William Acland Hood, born 14 July, 1824, is second son of Sir Alex. Hood, Bart., of Tidlake, co. Surrey, by Amelia Anne, youngest daughter and co-heir of Sir Hugh Bateman, Bart., of Hartington Hall, co. Derby; grandson of the gallant Capt. Alex. Hood, R.N., who accompanied Capt. Cook in one of his voyages round the world, and, after much distinguished service, fell in command of the Mars 74, during a tremendous yard-arm-and-yard-arm conflict which preceded the surrender to the latter ship of the French 74 L’Hercule, 21 April, 1798; and grand-nephew of that excellent officer, the late Vice-Admiral Sir Sam. Hood, K.B., K.F.M. His elder and only brother, Alex. Bateman Periam Hood, is a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards.
This officer passed his examination 2 Aug. 1843; and, after serving for nearly two years, as Mate, in the Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and for a short time in the President 50, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, was promoted to the rank he now holds 9 Jan. 1846. He was then re-appointed to the President, in the capacity of Additional-Lieutenant, and is at present serving in her at the Cape of Good Hope.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hood, William Henry

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​HOOD. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
William Henry Hood passed his examination 27 Feb. 1840; and, after officiating for some time as Mate of the Vulcan Revenue-steamer and Seaflower cutter, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Crispin and Nicholas Robilliard, was appointed to a station in the Coast Guard 28 Feb. 1842. He left that service, on advancement to his present rank, 21 May, 1846; and, since 17 of the following June, has been employed on the coast of Africa in the Contest 12, Lieut.-Commander Arch. M‘Murdo.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hood, William John Thompson

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​HOOD. (Captain, 1843.)
William John Thompson Hood was born 6 Nov. 1794. He is younger brother of Commander S. T. Hood, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 16 April, 1805. He served on board the Achille 74, Capt. Rich. King, at the battle of Trafalgar; was in the Daphne 20, Capt. Fras. Mason, at the capture of Monte Video in Feb. 1807, and during the operations on the Rio de la Plata; assisted, when in the Plover and Sheldrake sloops, at the capture of several privateers, and the blockade of the French and Danish coasts; and, on being appointed Master’s Mate of the Malta 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell, commanded the Spanish gun-boat No. 5, in co-operation, during the latter part of the war, with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. Being advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 25 Feb. 1815 (nearly two years after he had passed his examination), he was successively appointed Senior – 24 May, 1821, of the Helicon 10, Capt. Wm. Robt. Dawkins, stationed in the Channel – and, 24 July and 24 Dec. 1824, of the Romney and Hyperion Coast Blockade ships, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye. He was promoted to the rank of Commander in the Hyperion, 9 Jan. 1828, and continued on the books of that frigate until paid off in Dec. 1829. His next and last appointment was, 27 April, 1842, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Plymouth, where he remained until advanced to his present rank 25 Sept. 1843.
Independently of the thanks of the Board of Longitude, Capt. Hood, on 26 May, 1824, received from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., its gold Vulcan medal for his improved screen-glasses for quadrants and sextants for naval use. He has also been voted the silver medal of the same body for his invention of an ice-saw, for facilitating the progress or escape of ships navigating the high Polar latitudes, when surrounded by field-ice. In 1828 he obtained a similar honorary reward for his method of constructing a floating bridge, from the materials to be found on board all ships of war and vessels generally. In 1830 he again received the Society’s medal for his invention of an improved ​rocket-shaft. Capt. Hood has also invented a rotatory lifting and forcing pump. He married, 16 Dec. 1830, Sophia Janet, second daughter of the late Robt. Henderson, Esq., Physician and Inspector of the Forces. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hooper, Richard

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​HOOPER. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 16; h-p., 31.)
Richard Hooper entered the Navy, in 1800, as L.M., on board the Severn 44, Capts. John Whitby and Geo. Barker, employed in the West Indies; where, and in the Channel, he served, from Dec. 1803 until Aug. 1809, as A.B., Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Port Mahon brig, Capt. Sam. Chambers. During the three first years of that period he assisted at the capture, re-capture, and destruction of at least 50 vessels; among which were El Galgo Spanish packet, the Aranzana letter-of-marque, and El Courier privateer. In 1808 the Port Mahon took two other privateers – Le Furet, of 16 guns and 47 men, and Le Général Paris, of 3 guns and 38 men. After an attachment of nearly 12 months to the San Josef 110, under the flags of Sir John Thos. Duckworth and Sir Chas. Cotton, Mr. Hooper was made Lieutenant, 4 July, 1810, into the Téméraire 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore in the Mediterranean. His last appointments were – 10 Sept. 1812, to the Insolent 14, Capts. Edw. Brazier and Wm. Kelly, with whom he served in the Channel and Baltic until compelled by illness to invalid in Sept. 1814 – and, 3 Feb. 1816, to the Dee 24, commanded by Capt. Sam. Chambers on the Halifax station. The latter vessel was paid off 8 Dec. 1818.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hooper, John Sackett

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​HOOPER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 31.)
John Sackett Hooper was born 27 Dec. 1792. This officer entered the Navy, 22 Feb. 1809, as ​Midshipman, on board the Standard 64, Capt. Thos. Harvey, with whom he was for some months employed in the Majestic 74, on the Baltic station; where, in the course of 1810, he joined the Ruby and Dictator 64’s, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Williams. During the action of 6 July, 1812, with the Danish squadron, alluded to in our narrative of Lieut. Benj. Hooper, he is represented to have been on board the latter ship, whose loss on the occasion amounted to 4 persons killed and 24 (including himself) wounded. The three years preceding his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 20 Sept. 1815, were passed by Mr. Hooper on the North Sea, North American, West India, and Newfoundland stations, in the Sceptre and Marlborough 74’s, Capts. Thos. Harvey and Robt. Honyman, and Perseus 22, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bellenden, or Ballantyne, John

​Bellenden, or Ballantyne, John (fl. 1533-1587?).—Poet, b. towards the close of the 15th century, and ed. at St. Andrews and Paris. At the request of James V. he translated the Historia Gentis Scotorum of Boece. This translation, Chroniklis of Scotland is a very free one, with a good deal of matter not in the original, so that it may be almost considered as a new work. It was pub. in 1536, and is the earliest existing specimen of Scottish literary prose. He also translated the first five books of Livy. He enjoyed the Royal favour, and was Archdeacon of Moray. He latterly, however, became involved in controversy which led to his going to Rome, where he d., according to one account, about 1550. Another authority, however, states that he was living in 1587.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bell, Henry Glassford

​Bell, Henry Glassford (1805-1874).—Poet and historian, was a member of the Scottish Bar, and became Sheriff of Lanarkshire. He wrote a Life of Mary Queen of Scots (1830), strongly in her defence, and two vols. of poetry, Summer and Winter Hours (1831), and My Old Portfolio, the latter also containing pieces in prose.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Beaumont, Sir John

​Beaumont, Sir John (1582-1627?).—Poet, elder brother of Francis B., the dramatist (q.v.). His poems, of which the best known is Bosworth Field, pub. by his s., 1629. Another, The Crown of Thorns, is lost.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Beddoes, Thomas Lovell

​Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849).—Dramatic poet and physiologist, s. of Dr. Thos. B., an eminent physician, and nephew of Maria Edgeworth. Ed. at the Charterhouse and Oxford, ​he pub. in 1821 The Improvisatore, which he afterwards endeavoured to suppress. His next venture was The Bride's Tragedy (1822), which had considerable success, and won for him the friendship of "Barry Cornwall." Thereafter he went to Göttingen and studied medicine. He then wandered about practising his profession, and expounding democratic theories which got him into trouble. He d. at Bale in mysterious circumstances. For some time before his death he had been engaged upon a drama, Death's Jest Book, which was published in 1850 with a memoir by his friend, T.F. Kelsall. B. had not the true dramatic instinct, but his poetry is full of thought and richness of diction. Some of his short pieces, e.g.: "If there were dreams to sell," and "If thou wilt ease thine heart," are masterpieces of intense feeling exquisitely expressed.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bentley, Richard

​Bentley, Richard (1662-1742).—Theologian, scholar, and critic, b. in Yorkshire of humble parentage, went at the age of ​to Camb., afterwards had charge of a school at Spalding, and then becoming tutor to the s. of Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Paul's, afterwards Bishop of Worcester (q.v.), accompanied his pupil to Oxf. After taking his degree at both universities, and entering the Church, he laid the foundation of his reputation as perhaps the greatest scholar England has produced by his letter in Mill's ed. of the Chronicle of John Malelas, and his Dissertation on the Letters of Phalaris (1699), which spread his fame through Europe. After receiving various preferments, including the Boyle lectureship and the Keepership of the Royal Library, he was, in 1700, appointed Master of Trinity, and afterwards was, largely owing to his own pugnacity and rapacity, which were almost equal to his learning, involved in a succession of litigations and controversies. These lasted for 20 years, and led to the temporary loss of his academic preferments and honours. In 1717, however, he was appointed Regius Prof. of Divinity. During the contentions referred to he continued his literary activity without abatement, and pub. various ed. of the classics, including Horace and Terence. He was much less successful in certain emendations of Milton which he attempted. Having incurred the resentment of Pope he was rewarded by being assigned a niche in The Dunciad! His style is strong and nervous, and sparkles with wit and sarcasm. His classical controversies called forth Swift's Battle of the Books.
Life by Monk (1833). Life by Sir R. Jebb in English Men of Letters (1882).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bede or BÆDA

​Bede or BÆDA (673-735).—Historian and scholar. B., who is sometimes referred to as "the father of English history," was in his youth placed under the care of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, and of Ceolfrith, afterwards Abbot of Jarrow. Ordained deacon in 692 and priest in 703, he spent most of his days at Jarrow, where his fame as a scholar and teacher of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew brought him many disciples. Here likewise he d. and was buried, but his bones were, towards the beginning of the 11th century, removed to Durham. The well-deserved title of "Venerable" usually prefixed to his name first appears in 836. He was the most learned Englishman of his age. His industry was marvellous, and its results remain embodied in about 40 books, of which about 25 are commentaries on books of Scripture. The others are lives of saints and martyrs, and his two great works, The Ecclesiastical History of England and the scientific treatise, De Natura Rerum. The former of these gives the fullest and best information we have as to the history of England down to the year 731, and the latter is an encyclopædia of the sciences as then known. In the anxious care with which he sought out and selected reliable information, and referred to authorities he shows the best qualities of the modern historian, and his style is remarkable for "a pleasing artlessness."
History of Early Engl. Lit., Stopford Brooke (2 vols., 1892), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Behn, Aphra

​Behn, Aphra (Johnston) (1640-1689).—Novelist and dramatist, dau. of a barber named Johnston, but went with a relative whom she called father to Surinam, of which he had been appointed Governor. He, however, d. on the passage thither, and her childhood and youth were passed there. She became acquainted with the celebrated slave Oronoko, afterwards the hero of one of her novels. Returning to England in 1658 she m. Behn, a Dutch merchant, but was a widow at the age of 26. She then became attached to the Court, and was employed as a political spy at Antwerp. Leaving that city she cultivated the friendship of various ​playwrights, and produced many plays and novels, also poems and pamphlets. The former are extremely gross, and are now happily little known. She was the first English professional authoress. Among her plays are The Forced Marriage, Abdelazer, The Rover, The Debauchee, etc., and her novels include Oronoko and The Nun. The former of these was the first book to bring home to the country a sense of the horrors of slavery, for which let her have credit.