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# The Dunciad/Declaration

By the AUTHOR
A DECLARATION.
Whereas certain Haberdashers of Points and Particles, being instigated by the spirit of Pride, and assuming to themselves the name of Critics and Restorers, have taken upon them to adulterate the common and current sense of our Glorious Ancestors, Poets of this Realm, by clipping, coining, defacing the images, miring their own base allay, or otherwise falsifying the same; which they publish, utter, and bend as genuine: The said haberdashers having no right thereto, as neither heirs, executors, administrators, assigns, or in any sort related to such poets, to all or any of them: Now We, having carefully revised this our ​Dunciad, beginning with the words The Mighty Mother, and ending with the words buries all, containing the entire sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty four verses, declare every word, figure, point, and comma of this impression to be authentic: And do therefore strictly enjoin and forbid any person or persons whatsoever, to erase, reverse, put between hooks, or by any other means directly or indirectly change or mangle any of them. And we do hereby earnestly exhort all our brethren to follow this our example, which we heartily with our great predecessors had heretofore set, as a remedy and prevention of all such abuses. Provided always, that nothing in this Declaration shall be construed to limit the lawful and undoubted right of every subject of this realm, to judge, censure, or condemn, in the whole or in part, any Poem or Poet whatsoever.
Given under our hand at London, this third day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand, seven hundred, thirty and two.
Declarat' cor' me, John Barber, Mayor.
# The Dundee Courier & Argus/1899/John Ferguson Nisbet

Source: The Dundee Courier & Argus (Dundee, Scotland), Saturday, April 01, 1899; pg. 4; Issue 14279. — Death of a Well-known Journalist
Death of a Well-known Journalist
The death took place in London or Mr John Ferguson Nisbet, the well-known dramatic critic of the Times. Mr Nisbet was a son of Mr John Nisbet, Westerhill, Cadder, near Glasgow, and it was there that he received his early education at the hands of Mr. James Noble, a "dominie" of the old Scottish school. After being some time at Glasgow University, he decided to adopt a journalistic career, and began professional life as a reporter on the staff of the Glasgow Citizen. He then went to Greenock, and, after serving on the staff of the Western Morning News in Plymouth, proceeded to London, where he eventually received an appointment on the Times, with which journal he remained connected till the last. He first represented the Times in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, and subsequently was appointed dramatic critic. In the latter capacity Mr Nisbet soon made a name for himself, and he was always looked upon as authority on all matters affecting the drama, bringing, as he did much literary skill and very wide knowledge of things theatrical to bear in his criticisms. At one time he acted as editor of the London Morning, and he contributed also to the Referee. Deceased, who was only in his 43d year, and leaves a widow and two of a family to mourn his loss, was a stepson of Alexander Cleland, Dundee.
This work was published in 1899 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 124 years or less since publication.
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# The Dunciad/Index of Matters

INDEX
OF
MATTERS
Contained in this
POEM and NOTES.
[The first Number denotes the Book, the second the Verse and Note on it. Test. Testimonies. Ap. Appendix.
FINIS.
# The Dunciad/Martinus Scriblerus

MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS
HIS
Prolegomena and Illustrations
TO THE
DUNCIAD:
WITH THE
Hyper-critics of Aristarchus.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Williams, Major Horatio Lloyd

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​Williams, Major Horatio Lloyd, J.P, was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and entered the army as ensign in the 12th Foot in Oct. 1853, and served with a detachment of the 12th and 40th Regiments, under Major Thomas at the storming of the Eureka Stockade during the gold-diggers' riots at Ballarat, Vict., in 1854. He became lieutenant in the 12th Foot in May 1857, and lieutenant on the volunteer staff of South Australia in May 1860. He was appointed lieutenant in command of the "Sydney volunteers" for the New Zealand Militia in Sept. 1863; adjutant to the left wing, under Colonel Moule, in April 1864; and captain in the New Zealand Militia in Feb. 1865. Whilst serving in New Zealand he was present with General Sir Duncan Campbell's forces in their advance against the Maori position at Mere Mere, Waikato, at the repulse of the Maoris at the Waira river, the capture of Orakau, and with the expeditionary force under Brigadier-General Carey from the Thames district to the Queen's Redoubt. In July 1877 he was appointed lieutenant on the staff of the South Australian military forces, captain and staff-adjutant in Dec. 1880, and honorary major in Jan. 1888.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilkinson, Charles Smith

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​Wilkinson, Charles Smith, F.L.S., F.G.S., Government Geologist, New South Wales, was the fourth son of the late David Wilkinson, C.E., who emigrated to Victoria in 1852, and took a prominent part in the initiation of railway and steamboat communication in that colony. He was born in Northamptonshire in 1843, and educated at Ebly, near Stroud, in Gloucestershire, and, after arriving in Melbourne, at Fenner's Collegiate School in that city. In Dec. 1859 he was appointed to the Geological Survey Office of Victoria, under Mr. Selwyn. In 1861 he acted as field assistant to the late Mr. Daintree in his explorations of the country northward of Bass's Straits, and in 1863 was associated with Mr. Reginald Murray in the exploration of the Cape Otway Ranges. Here some important geological discoveries were made, and Mr. Wilkinson's reports and maps were subsequently published. He also made some important investigations relating to the deposits of gold and the formation of gold nuggets, which he communicated to the Royal Society of Victoria. Having succeeded Mr. Daintree in 1866, he resigned his appointment under the Victorian Government in 1868, in consequence of ill health, and resided at Wagga Wagga, N.S.W., for three years. In 1872 he passed the examination for licensed surveyors in that colony, and was employed upon surveys in the New England and Murrumbidgee districts. In 1874 he received the appointment of Geological Surveyor under the Surveyor-General of New South Wales in the department of the Minister of Lands. In 1875 he was transferred to the Mines Department, and collected and arranged most of the fossils and minerals in the ​Museum of Mines. The fossil discoveries in the gold drifts and coal measures of New South Wales elicited the acknowledgments of the leading palaeontologists, and a new genus and several new species have been named after him. Mr. Wilkinson was a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and of the Linnæan and Geological Societies of London. In 1890 he was appointed to take charge of the collections forwarded by New South Wales to the Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, held at the Crystal Palace in that year. Mr. Wilkinson died on August 26th, 1891.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilkinson, William Hattam

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​Wilkinson, William Hattam, District Court Judge, New South Wales, is the son of Captain Henry Richard Wilkinson, H.E.I.C.S., and Deborah Jane (Busby) his wife; and nephew of the late Rev. Frederick Wilkinson, M.A., one of the early colonial chaplains, and emigrated to the colony in 1852. He was called to the Bar in Sydney in Dec. 1858, and in 1860 was appointed Associate to the late Mr. Justice Wise. He is the author of "Wilkinson's Australian Magistrate," which has gone through several editions, the first of which was published in 1860. He was for eight years the authorised reporter for the Common Law division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and the first eight volumes of the Supreme Court reports bear his name. In 1864, on the death of Mr. C. K. Murray, he became one of the parliamentary draftsmen, in 1870 a Crown prosecutor, and in 1874 District Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions in the Metropolitan and Hunter district, a position he still holds. Judge Wilkinson, who was educated at the Bluecoat School and King's College, London, married in Feb. 1852 Elizabeth Sibyl, daughter of W. Milligan, M.D., of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Williams, His Honour Hartley

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​Williams, His Honour Hartley (p. 509). Judge Williams married first, in Dec. 1870, Edith Ellen, daughter of Commissary-General Horne; and secondly, in Jan. 1887, Jessie Bruce, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Acland Lawford, of Kinellan, Wimbledon Common, Surrey.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Williams, His Honour Joshua Strange

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​Williams, His Honour Joshua Strange, M.A., LL.M., judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, is the eldest son of the late Joshua Williams, Q.C., author of treatises on the law relating to real ​and personal property and other works, by his marriage with Lucy, daughter of William Strange, of Upton. He was born in 1837, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (Chancellor's Medallist for legal studies, first class law tripos, third class mathematical tripos) in 1859, M.A. in 1862, and LL.M. in 1870. Mr. Justice Williams entered at Lincoln's Inn in Jan. 1857, and was called to the English Bar in Nov. 1859. He arrived in New Zealand in 1861, and in the following year went into partnership with Mr. T. S. Duncan, then provincial solicitor, an office which he himself subsequently held for several years. In Jan. 1871 he gave up practice and was land registrar of the Canterbury district till 1872 and Registrar-General of Land for the whole of New Zealand from the latter year till 1875, in which year he was appointed Puisne Judge for Otago—a position he still holds. Judge Williams was never a member of the General Assembly; but he sat in the Provincial Council of Canterbury for the Heathcote district in 1862 and 1863 and from 1866 to 1875, when he was raised to the Bench. He married first, in 1864, Catherine Helen, daughter of the late Thomas Sanctuary, of Horsham, Sussex; and secondly, in 1877, Amelia Durant, daughter of John Wesley Jago, of Dunedin, N.Z.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Williams, John

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​Williams, John, J. P., was appointed Crown Solicitor of New South Wales in June 1859. He was also chairman of the Civil Service Board, constituted under the Act of 1883. He retired in 1890, and died on Oct. 20th, 1891.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Whitworth, Robert Percy

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​Whitworth, Robert Percy, was born in England in 1831. He landed in New South Wales in 1855, and, after a varied experience, joined the reporting staff of the Empire in Sydney. He was subsequently in Queensland, and in 1864 became connected with the Melbourne press. He wrote a successful farce, entitled Catching a Conspirator, in 1867, and assisted in compiling a series of colonial gazetteers.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Whyte, Hon. James

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​Whyte, Hon. James, who was the last surviving member of the first wholly elective Legislative Council of Tasmania, was the son of George Whyte, a captain in the Yeomanry Cavalry, by his marriage with Miss Walker, cousin of Thomas Pringle, the well-known South African ​explorer and poet and Anti-Slavery Society secretary. He was born near Greenlaw, Scotland, in March 1820, and arrived in Tasmania with his father in 1832. So far back as 1838, when the colony of Victoria was in its infancy, and Mr.Whyte was only seventeen years of age, he crossed the Straits, and, with a good stock of sheep, settled on the station at Portland Bay known as Kononwotong. He and his brothers traded on a large scale under the firm of Whyte Brothers, and were the pioneers of the present township of Coleraine. The difficulties with the savage aborigines were very great, and Mr. Whyte had his vicissitudes, like all early settlers in squatting life. In connection with Mr. Robert McDonald and Mr. William Lane, he afterwards became the proprietor of a large station at Clunes, on which at a subsequent date the Port Phillip Gold Mine was discovered, which for years yielded a handsome royalty to its owners. Mr. Whyte, satisfied with his handsome returns from the Clunes goldmine, returned to Tasmania about the year 1853. His means were ample, and in 1854 he made his first appearance on the stage of public life, when, in the half-nominee and half-representative Legislature of that day, he contested the seat for Brighton with Dr. Butler, but was defeated. In the latter part of 1856, however, when, under the new Constitution Act, two representative Houses were established, he was elected for Pembroke without opposition, and retained his seat, being for several years Chairman of Committees, until it became vacant by effluxion of time on March 21st, 1876, when, holding an office of emolument under the Crown, he was no longer eligible for re-election. Mr. Whyte held a seat in the Gregson Ministry as a member of the Executive Council without office from Feb. to May 1857. Having been a prominent member of the Opposition to the Chapman Ministry, Mr. Whyte was entrusted with the formation of a Cabinet on their defeat in Jan. 1863, and took office as Premier and Chief Secretary. He, however, resigned in Nov. 1866, on the condemnation by the Assembly of the proposal to impose an income and property tax. In 1870 Mr Whyte, as a private member, carried a bill for the suppression of the scab disease in sheep, which was then making fearful ravages, and accepted the office of Chief Inspector under the provisions of the measure. This, as before stated, necessitated his retirement from parliament. He died on August 21st, 1880.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wigley, Henry Rudolph

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​Wigley, Henry Rudolph, S.M., was born in 1794, and was admitted a solicitor of the Court of Chancery in 1818. He was appointed Public Prosecutor of South Australia in 1836, and shortly afterwards police magistrate. He was the first Commissioner of Insolvency, and presiding magistrate of the Adelaide local court until March 1856, when he retired on a pension. Mr. Wigley died at Grunthall on Oct. 19th, 1876.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Williams, Right Rev. William

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​Williams, Right Rev. William, D.C.L., first Bishop of Waiapu, N.Z., was the fourth son of the late Thomas Williams and younger brother of Archdeacon Williams (q.v.). He was born at Nottingham, England, on July 18th, 1800, and was educated at a Moravian school at Fairfield, near Manchester, and at the Southwell Grammar School. He was intended for the medical profession, and was actually articled to a surgeon. He, however, decided to take holy orders, and leaving Southwell in 1822, proceeded to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1824, being ordained deacon and priest the same year. In 1826 he emigrated to New Zealand under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society, having previously further qualified himself for missionary life in the bush by walking the London hospitals, and thus acquiring surgical experience prior to his departure. In association with his brother and the Rev. Robert Maunsell, he was active in obtaining Maori signatures to the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. In 1843 he was appointed Archdeacon of Waiapu by Bishop Selwyn. In Dec. 1850 the University of Oxford conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L., and in April 1859 he was consecrated first Bishop of Waiapu, a position which he resigned shortly before his death. Bishop Williams compiled a "Dictionary of the New Zealand Language" (1849, second edition 1858), and wrote "Christianity amongst the New Zealanders" (1867). In 1826 the Bishop translated a portion of Genesis into Maori. In 1844 he revised the Maori Prayer-book in conjunction with Messrs. Maunsell and Puckey. He also, with the help of several coadjutors, revised the Maori Old Testament in 1847 and the New Testament in 1867. Bishop Williams, who married Miss Jane Nelson, died at Napier on March 26th, 1876.
# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/"We'll Fight, and Fight Soon"

​"WE'LL FIGHT, AND FIGHT SOON" By that time I had, in common with the majority of my countrymen who travelled much abroad, been compelled to recognize the ever-increasing hostility of the German and British peoples whenever they encountered each other on the highways of the world—their constant cross-purposes on steamships, in railway trains, hotels, casinos, post and telegraph offices—making social intercourse difficult and friendship impossible. The overbearing manners of many German travellers, their aggressive and domineering selfishness, which always demanded the best seats, the best rooms, and the first attention, was year by year becoming more and more intolerable to the British spirit. It cannot be said that we acquiesced. Indeed, it must be admitted that our country-people usually met the German claims to be the supermen of Europe with rather unnecessary self-assertion. If an unmannerly German pushed before us at the counter of a booking-office we pushed him back; if he shouted ​over our shoulders at a telegraph office we told him to hold his tongue; and if, in stiflingly hot weather, he insisted (as he often did) on shutting up again and again the window of a railway carriage after we had opened it for a breath of air, we sometimes drove our, elbow through the glass for final answer—as I saw an English barrister do one choking day on the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem.
These were only the straws that told how the wind blew, but they were disquieting symptoms nevertheless to such of us as felt, with Professor Harnack and his colleagues at the Edinburgh Conference, that by blood, history and faith, the German and British peoples were brothers (ugly as it sounds to say so now), each more closely bound to the other in the world-task of civilization than with almost any other nation.
"If we are brothers we'll fight all the more fiercely for that fact," we thought, "and, God help us, we'll fight soon."
# The Dragonfly (Millay)

First published in Vanity Fair in February, 1922.
* "The Dragon-Fly", excerpted from Vanity Fair magazine (February 1922).
* "The Dragonfly", in The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923).
# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days

THE DRAMA OF
THREE HUNDRED &
SIXTY-FIVE DAYS
SCENES IN THE GREAT WAR
BY HALL CAINE
WITH A PORTRAIT OF H.R.H.
THE PRINCE OF WALES
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
Portrait of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.
reproduced for this volume by special permission of
His Majesty the King.
DEDICATED TO
THE YOUNG MANHOOD OF
THE BRITISH EMPIRE
CONTENTS
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# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/"But Liberty Must Go On, and … England"

​"BUT LIBERTY MUST GO ON, AND . . . ENGLAND" What startling surprises! We of the lower, the middle, or the upper-middle classes had come to believe that too many of the young men of our nobility had grown effeminate in idleness and selfish pleasure indulged in on the borderland of a kind of aristocratic Bohemia, but, behold! they were fighting and dying with the bravest. We had thought too many of their young women (as thoughtless and capricious creatures of fashion) had sacrificed the finest bloom of modest and courageous womanhood in luxury and self-indulgence; but, lo! they were hurrying to the battlefields as nurses, and there facing without flinching the scenes of blood and horror, of foul sights and stenches, which make the bravest man's heart turn sick.
Some of the scenes at home in those last days of August and early days of September were yet more affecting. The first of our casualty lists had been published, and they were terrible. They hit the old people hardest, the old fathers and old mothers who had given all, and had nothing left—not even a little child to live for. At the railway stations, when fresh troops were leaving for the front, you saw sights which searched the heart so much that you felt ashamed ​to look, feeling they opened sanctuaries in which God's eye alone should see.
Old Lady So-and-So seeing her youngest son off to Flanders. She has lost two of her sons in the war already, and Archie is the last of them. The dear old darling! It is pitiful to see her in her deep black, struggling to keep up before the boy. But when the train has left the platform and she can no longer wave her handkerchief she breaks down utterly. "I've seen the last of him," she says; "something tells me I've seen the last of him. And now I've given everything I have to the country."
Ah! that's what you have all got to do, or be prepared to do, you brave mothers of England, if you have to defeat a desperate enemy, who stoops to any method, any crime.
Then old Lord Such-a-One at Victoria to meet the body of his only son being brought back from the hospital at Boulogne. How proud he had been of his boy! He could remember the day he captained for Eton at Lord's, or perhaps rowed stroke—and won—for Cambridge. And now on the field in Flanders. . . . He had seen it coming, though. He had thought of it when the war broke out. "Ours is an old family," he had told himself, " four hundred years old, and my son is the last of us. If I let him go to the war my line may end, my family may stop . . . but then ​liberty must go on, civilization must go on, and . . . England!"
Yes, it must be night before the British star will shine.
# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/"Good God, Man, Do You Mean to Say …"

​"GOOD GOD, MAN, DO YOU MEAN TO SAY . . ." "We have tried in vain to localize the just vengeance of our Austrian neighbour for an abominable Royal murder," said the Germans, ​knowing well that the Royal murder was nothing but a shameless pretext for an opportunity to test their strength against the French, and give law to the rest of Europe.
"Let us pass over your territory in order to attack our enemy in the West, and we promise to respect your independence and to recompense you for any loss you may possibly sustain," said Germany to Belgium, without a thought of the monstrous crime of treachery which she was asking Belgium to commit against France.
"Stand aside in a benevolent neutrality, and we undertake not to take any of the possessions of France in Europe," said Germany to Great Britain, without allowing herself to be troubled by so much as a qualm about the iniquity of asking us to trade with her in the French colonies. And when we rejected Germany's infamous proposals, and called on her to say if she meant to respect the independence of Belgium, whose integrity we had mutually pledged ourselves to protect, her Chancellor stamped and fumed at our representative, and said, "Good God, man, do you mean to say that your country will go to war for a scrap of paper?"