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# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Oarystis (Joséphin Soulary)

Sonnet.—OARYSTIS.
JOSÉPHIN SOULARY.
They go side by side, far, far from the town, Eyes bent on the earth, hand linkèd in hand, Nor think they've strayed, and are hemmed by a band Of the forest, with the night coming down. Where go they? On to the wood's deepest brown, Wherever their hearts intermingled command, He proud to have dared, albeit moved—she grand In her tremor and her beauty's bright crown. No word have they said, and yet all is told. Children be happy, nor deem love a crime! And thou Theocritus, bard famous and old, Smile at the drama unfolding sublime; Two thousand years o'er thy verses have rolled, And lo! they bloom here,—defiant of time.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Rimembranza (Joséphin Soulary)

Sonnet.—RIMEMBRANZA.
JOSÉPHIN SOULARY.
Of thy early days, speak, and of all their fresh dreams, The bright-winged angels who oft wheeled o'er thy nights, Thy petty big sorrows, and thy childish delights, Thy illusions, flowers from the cradle, and gleams, And the struggles with which a too timid heart teems, At which Clorinde more ripe has oft smiled. There are sprites That imitate Love's looks; dim stars on the heights That herald the Sun, though they fade in his beams. Conceal nothing from me of old times; of the whole I love to recompose thread by thread the bright chain Which, up to the Infinite, makes me follow thy soul— Like the miser I feel, who though rich would still gain, Who clutches at silver, though in gold he may roll: I would hear, rose in hand, of the green bud again.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—The Grave-digger (Joséphin Soulary)

Sonnet.—THE GRAVE-DIGGER.
JOSÉPHIN SOULARY.
With every human child, an elf or fay Is born, who plies the sexton's merry trade, And digs beneath incessant, with a spade, A grave where tumble must the man one day. Know you your elf? Dark, hideous, they say, He is at times, one shivers at his shade; Mine own has looks so gentle, that I made No terms with him, but gave him all his way. A bright child, red and white, with lips so sweet! On,—on he pushes me with his caresses, Assassin more charming one rarely may meet! Rogue, hast thou finished? Despatch, for time presses— A kiss at the last, when the earth-bed is deep! And lay me on flowers, softly, softly to sleep.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—The Miracle of the Virgin (Louis Ratisbonne)

Sonnet—THE MIRACLE OF THE VIRGIN.
LOUIS RATISBONNE.
A painter young was painting blessëd Mary Upon a scaffold—so the legend goes— High sprung the dome above, a dome of faëry, Far down below the choir lay tinged with rose; Of her rich gifts the muse had not been chary, He loved his art and worked without repose, But sleep surprised him in an hour unwary, And the Bad Spirit that no pity knows With jeering laughter hurled him from his height. He woke—'Help, help, O Virgin!' And 'tis told, Out of the canvas stretched an arm of light To save him. O ye fervent hearts, be bold! Sleep, fall, ye may, but never perish quite: Your bright Ideal shall your steps uphold.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—The Broken Bell (Charles Baudelaire)

Sonnet.—THE BROKEN BELL.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.
'Tis bitter-sweet on winter nights to note, Beside the palpitating fire reclined, The chimes, across the fogs, upon the wind, Now loud, now low, now near and now remote. What recollections on that music float! Blessed the bell that through the darkness blind Sends honest greetings, consolations kind, And solemn warnings from its lusty throat. 'Tis like a wakeful soldier,—mine, alas! The soul-bell in me, can but give one cry, Like that, a wounded soldier—o'er whom pass Riders and horses, and around whom lie The dead and dying in a tangled mass— Utters, unable or to move or die.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—The Divine Antithesis (Joséphin Soulary)

Sonnet.—THE DIVINE ANTITHESIS.
JOSÉPHIN SOULARY.
The knell rings sad from the belfry on high, But with perfume shivers as drunken the breeze; Black drapes the church from the porch to the frieze, But purple and gold have transfigured the sky; The procession solemn and hushed glides by, But swallows float joyous over the trees; Tears fall wildly, and hearts heave like the seas, But pearls rainbow-hued on leaves flashing lie. Lo! This is the place of repose as we trust, Uttered are soft the prayers for the dead, Return earth to earth and dust to the dust. But the flowers bloom round and lift up their head, And Nature immense is heard in each gust, 'Beauty new-born springs in light freely shed.'
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—The Foot-print on the Sand (Joséphin Soulary)

Sonnet.—THE FOOT-PRINT ON THE SAND.
JOSÉPHIN SOULARY.
A pretty foot, a virgin's foot, no doubt, Disdainful, arched and furtive, printed clear! To find this Cinderella, far and near The prince would have with many a wary scout Searched for a century. I followed out The marks in hope the vision would appear, Either in pensive loveliness austere, Or wreathed with smiles, but vainly looked about. Two miles beneath the heavens, the steps to trace Was joyful work: at last a lake outspread— No further marks! And not a human face In sight! To right or left no pathway led! Had Cinderella vanished into space?— The lake profound slept silent as the dead.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Granger, James

​Granger, James (1723-1776).—Biographer, was at Oxf. and, entering the Church, became Vicar of Shiplake, Oxon. He pub. a Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution (1769). He insisted on the importance of collecting engravings of portraits and himself gathered 14,000, and gave a great impulse to the practice of making such collections.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grant, James

​Grant, James (1822-1887).—Novelist, was the s. of an officer in the army, in which he himself served for a short time. He wrote upwards of 50 novels in a brisk, breezy style, of which the best known are perhaps The Romance of War (1845), Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp, Frank Hilton, Bothwell, Harry Ogilvie, and The Yellow Frigate. He also wrote biographies of Kirkcaldy of Grange, Montrose, and others which, however, are not always trustworthy from an historical point of view.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Gower, John

​Gower, John (1325?-1408).—Poet. Although few details of his life have come down to us, he appears to have been a man of wealth and importance, connected with Kent, well known at Court, and in possession of more than one estate. He was the friend of Chaucer, who gives him the title of "the moral Gower," which has clung to him ever since. His first principal work was Speculum Meditantis (the Mirror of one meditating) written in French on the subject of married life. It was long believed to have been lost. It was followed by Vox Clamantis (the Voice of one crying) written in Latin, giving an account of the peasants' revolt of 1381 and attacking the misgovernment and social evils which had led to it. His third, and only English poem, was Confessio Amantis (Lover's Confession), a work of 30,000 lines, consisting of tales and meditations on love, written at the request of Richard II. It is the ​earliest large collection of tales in the English tongue. In his old age G. became blind. He had, when about 70, retired to the Priory of St. Mary Overies, the chapel of which is now the Church of St. Saviour, Southwark, where he spent his last years, and to which he was a liberal benefactor. G. represented the serious and cultivated man of his time, in which he was reckoned the equal of Chaucer, but as a poet he is heavy and prolix.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grahame, Simon or Simion

​Grahame, Simon or Simion (1570-1614).—B. in Edin., led a dissolute life as a traveller, soldier, and courtier on the Continent. He appears to have been a good scholar, and wrote the Passionate Sparke of a Relenting Minde, and Anatomy of Humours, the latter of which is believed to have suggested to Burton his Anatomy of Melancholie. He became an austere Franciscan.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grainger, James

​Grainger, James (1721-1766).—Poet, of a Cumberland family, studied medicine at Edin., was an army surgeon, and on the peace settled in practice in London, where he became the friend of Dr. Johnson, Shenstone, and other men of letters. His first poem, Solitude, appeared in 1755. He subsequently went to the West Indies (St. Kit's), where he made a rich marriage, and pub. his chief poem, The Sugar-Cane (1764).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Gosson, Stephen

​Gosson, Stephen (1554-1624).—Poet, actor, and satirist, b. in Kent, and ed. at Oxf., he went to London, and wrote plays, which are now lost, and pastorals; but, moved by a sermon preached at Paul's Cross in 1577 during a plague, he deserted the theatre, and became one of its severest critics in his prose satire, The School of Abrose (1579), directed against "poets, pipers, players, jesters, and such-like Caterpillars of a Commonwealth." Dedicated to Sir P. Sidney, it was not well received by him, and is believed to have evoked his Apologie for Poetrie (1595). G. entered the Church, and d Rector of St. Botolph's, London.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grafton, Richard

​Grafton, Richard (d. 1572).—Printer and chronicler, printed various ed. of the Bible and Prayer-book; also the Proclamation of the Accession of Lady Jane Grey, for which he was cast into prison, where he compiled an Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (1563). To this he added in 1568 A Chronicle at Large. Neither holds a high place as authorities.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace Frances

​Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace Frances (Moody) (1799-1861).—Novelist, dau. of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was b. She m. a Captain Gore, with whom she resided mainly on the Continent, supporting her family by her voluminous writings. Between 1824 and 1862 she produced about 70 works, the most successful of which were novels of fashionable English life. Among these may be mentioned Manners of the Day (1830), Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb (1841), and The Banker's Wife (1843). She also wrote for the stage, and composed music for songs.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grahame, James

​Grahame, James (1765-1811).—Poet, s. of a lawyer, was b. and ed. in Glasgow. After spending some time in a law office in Edin., he was called to the Scottish Bar. His health being delicate, and his circumstances easy, he early retired from practice, and taking orders in the Church of England in 1809, was appointed curate successively of Shipton, Gloucestershire, and Sedgefield, Durham. He wrote several pleasing poems, of which the best is The Sabbath (1804). He d. on a visit to Glasgow in his 47th year. His poems are full of quiet observation of country sights expressed in graceful verse.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Gough, Richard

​Gough, Richard (1735-1809).—Antiquary, was b. in London, and studied at Camb. For many years he made journeys over England in pursuit of his antiquarian studies. He pub. about 20 works, among which are British Topography (1768), Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain (1786-99), an ed. of Camden's Britannia, a translation of The Arabian Nights (1798), and various other treatises on archaeology, topography, and numismatics.
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# A Nervous Governor-General

We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here To take up Lord Tennyson's mission. 'Tis pleasant to find they have sent us a Peer, And a man of exalted position. It's his business to see that the Radical horde From loyalty's path does not swerve us; But his tastes, and the task, don't seem quite in accord For they say that His Lordship is nervous.
Does he think that wild animals walk in the street, Where the wary marsupial is hopping? Does he think that the snake and the platypus meet And "bail up" the folk who go shopping? And the boomerangs fly round the scared passer-by Who has come all this way to observe us. While the blackfellow launches a spear at his eye? -- No wonder His Lordship is nervous.
Does he think that with callers he'll be overtasked, From a baronet down to a barber? Does he dream of the number of times he'll be asked "What he thinks of our Beautiful Harbour?" Does he sadly reflect on the sorrows that ding Round his task? (From such sorrows preserve us!) He must hear John See speak and O'Sullivan sing, -- It's enough to make any man nervous.
Does he think he'll be waked in the dead of night From Melbourne to go willy-nilly, To live in the Federal Capital site At Tumut or Wagra-go-billy? Well, the Melbournites may let the Capital go (Here we wink with one eye, please observe us!) But not in a hurry! By no means! Oh, no! He has not the least need to be nervous!
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# A New Ally: The Bohemian Army

Abridged translation of the article originally published in the French daily L’Œuvre on 2 December 1917.
English-language translations of Un nouvel allié include:
* "A New Ally: The Bohemian Army" in The New Europe, 5 (61) (13th December, 1917)
* "A New Ally: The Bohemian Army" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (1) (1918)
# A Nereid Floating on a Shell

* A Nereid Floating on a Shell in The Literary Gazette, 1st March 1823 as one of the series Medallion Wafers.
* A Nereid Floating on a Shell in The Vow of the Peacock and Other Poems, 1835.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Reynolds, George

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​REYNOLDS. (Retired Commander, 1831. f-p., 31; h-p., 35.)
George Reynolds was born in Oct. 1766. This officer entered the Navy, 6 June, 1781, as Ordinary, on board the Prothée 64, Capt. Chas. Buckner, with whom, after sharing in Rodney’s action, 12 April, 1782, he removed to the Royal Oak 74. He returned from the West Indies in June, 1783, and between the following Oct. and July, 1794, was employed at Home, in the South Seas and Mediterranean, and again in the West Indies, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Calypso 18, Capt. Ralph Dundas, Helena 16, Capt. Benj. Hulke, Cockatrice 14, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Hurne, Pandora 24, Capt. Edw. Edwards, St. Albans 64, Capt. Jas. Vashon, and Europa 50, Commodore John Ford. The Pandora, having been sent to the Pacific in search of the mutineers of the Bounty, was wrecked on her passage home in Torres Strait 29 Aug. 1791. Thirty-five of the crew perished; and the remainder, in number 99, were reduced to the necessity of proceeding in four open boats to Timor, a Dutch settlement distant 1100 miles, upon 2 ounces of biscuit and 2 wine-glasses of water each a-day. On_leaving the Europa Mr. Reynolds was made Lieutenant, 10 July, 1794, into his former ship the St. Albans, commanded in succession by Capts. Jas. Vashon and Thos. Macnamara Russell; under the latter of whom he remained for some time in the West Indies and then took convoy to St. Helena. Removing with Capt. Russell, as First-Lieutenant, in Feb. 1796, into the Vengeance 74, he served in that ship at the capture of Ste. Lucie and Trinidad and in the unsuccessful attack upon Puerto Rico. With the exception of a few months during the peace of Amiens and of a short attachment as Senior Lieutenant on the renewal of hostilities to the Winchelsea 32, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, Mr. Reynolds was employed, from Sept. 1799 until July, 1807, in the Zealand 64, flag-ship at the Nore of Vice-Admirals Graeme and Rowley. During the next seven years and five months he had charge of a Signal-station at West Wittering, near Chichester. He accepted his present rank 30 March, 1831.
Commander Reynolds is a widower with four children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Reynolds, George Stewart

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​REYNOLDS. (Commander, 1841.)
George Stewart Reynolds entered the Navy 19 Feb. 1814; passed his examination in 1821; obtained his first commission 29 Jan. 1829; and was appointed in succession – 11 May, 1833, and 9 June, 1834, to the Donegal 78, Capt. Arthur Fanshawe, and Hastings 74, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Hall Gage, both on the Lisbon station – and, 25 April, 1837, as Senior, to the Larne 18, Capts. Patrick John Blake and Augustus Leopold Kuper, fitting for the East Indies. For his services in the latter vessel at the capture of Canton he was promoted, 8 June, ​1841, to the rank he now holds. On 16 Oct. following he was appointed Second-Captain of the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Thos. Herbert, with whom he returned home from India in the early part of 1843; and, since 3 July, 1844, he has been employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.
He married, 9 Nov. 1843, Eliza Susannah, second daughter of the late Jas. Walker, Esq., of Blackheath. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Reynolds, James

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​REYNOLDS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 23.)
James Reynolds entered the Navy, 31 March, 1807, as L.M., on board the Eliza and Jane tender, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Dickinson, employed between Plymouth and Dublin. In Sept. 1808 he followed the same officer into the Nonpareil 14; in which vessel, commanded afterwards by Lieut. Thos. Cowper Sherwin, we find him assisting, 3 Feb. 1810, at the capture of the Cannonière brig-of-war, of 3 guns, off the river Vilaine. In the course of 1811 he joined in succession the Dannemark 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, Royal William, flag-ship of Sir Roger Curtis at Spithead, and Ganymede 26, Capt. John Brett Purvis. In the Dannemark, he served as Midshipman in the Channel and among the Western Islands; he took part in the boats of the Ganymede in an attempt made to burn a privateer at the mouth of the Ebro; and he was present in the same ship at the siege of Tarragona in 1813 and in other operations on the coast of Catalonia. In July, 1815, being then with Capt. Purvis in the Amphion 32, he took up a commission bearing date 1 of the preceding March. Since 18 June, 1838, he has had charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Repington, Edward Henry A’Court

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​REPINGTON. (Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1847.)
Edward Henry A’Court Repington. The services of this officer are those of Capt. Edward Henry A’Court, who attained Flag-rank 6 Aug. 1847, and assumed, in the course of that year, the name of Repington.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Reynolds, Louis Rivett

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​REYNOLDS. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Louis Rivett Reynolds passed his examination 21 Feb. 1843; served in the Mediterranean as Mate on board the Warspite 50, Capts. Lord John Hay and Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, and Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker; obtained his commission 15 Aug. 1846; was appointed, 22 Jan. 1847, to the Trafalgar 120, Capts. John Neale Nott and Chas. Hope, engaged on particular service; and, since 16 April, 1848, has been employed, again in the Mediterranean, in the Terrible steam-frigate, of 800 horse-power, Capt. Wm. Ramsay.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Pollok, Robert

​POLLOK, Robert (1789-1827).—Poet, b. in Refrewshire, studied for the ministry of one of the Scottish Dissenting communions. After leaving the Univ. of Glasgow he pub. anonymously Tales of the Covenanters, and in 1827, the year of his untimely death from consumption, appeared his poem, The Course of Time, which contains some fine passages, and occasionally faintly recalls Milton and Young. The poem went through many ed. in Britain and America. He d. at Shirley, near Southampton, whither he had gone in search of health.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Pomfret, John

​POMFRET, John (1667-1702).—Poet, s. of a clergyman, entered the Church. He wrote several rather dull poems, of which the only one remembered, though now never read, is The Choice, which celebrates a country life free from care, and was highly popular in its day.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Planché, James Robinson

​PLANCHÉ, James Robinson (1796-1880).—Dramatist and miscellaneous writer, b. in London of Huguenot descent, was in the Herald Office, and rose to be Somerset Herald, in which capacity he was repeatedly sent on missions to invest foreign princes with the Order of the Garter. He produced upwards of 90 adaptations, and about 70 original pieces for the stage. He also wrote a History of British Costumes, The Pursuivant of Arms (1852), and The Conqueror and his Companions (1874), besides autobiographical Recollections 1872).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Pordage, Samuel

​PORDAGE, Samuel (1633-1691?).—Poet, s. of a clergy man in Berks, ed. at Merchant Taylor's School, studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and made various translations, wrote some poems, two tragedies, Herod and Mariamne (1673), and The Siege of Babylon (1678), and a romance, Eliana. He is best known by his Azaria and Hushai (1682), in reply to Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, distinguished from the other replies by its moderation and freedom from scurrility.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Piozzi, Hester Lynch

​PIOZZI, Hester Lynch (Salusbury) (1741-1821).—Miscellaneous writer, m. Henry Thrale, a wealthy brewer, and, after his death, Gabriel Piozzi, an Italian musician. Her chief distinction is her friendship with Dr. Johnson, who was for a time almost domesticated with the Thrales. Her second marriage in the year of Johnson's death, 1784, broke up the friendship. She wrote Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, a work which had a favourable reception, and gives a lifelike picture of its subject, and left an Autobiography. Her poem ​The Three Warnings, is supposed to have been touched up by Johnson. Many details of her friendship with J. are given in the Diary of Madame D'Arblay (q.v.).