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# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Childe (Thomas)

​CHILDE (THOMAS), printer in London; Dogwell Court, Whitefriars, 1660-66. In partnership with {{PDBP lkpl|Parry (Leonard)|Leonard Parry, q.v. They carried on a small business, printing chiefly political tracts and broadsides. They were ruined by the Fire of London. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 243, 126.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Churchill (William)

​CHURCHILL (WILLIAM), bookseller in Dorchester, 1659–88. His name is found on the following work:—Usher (J.), Eighteen Sermons, 1659. E. 1004. Later dates in Term Catalogues, vols. i and ii.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Clapham (Th.)

​CLAPHAM (TH.), (?) bookseller in London (?) 1642. His name is found on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Newes from the City of Norwich, 1642. [E. 114 (15).]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Clarke (Robert)

​CLARKE (ROBERT), bookseller in London; Rose in Ivy Lane, 1646–65. Took up his freedom December 2nd, 1639. [Arber, iii. 688.] Mentioned in the will of his brother Edmund Clarke, of St. Faith's parish [P.C.C. 152 Hyde], proved on December 9th, 1665, who bequeathed him and his wife Elizabeth the sum of 20s. a piece to buy them rings, and left bequests also to their children. Robert Clarke was the publisher of the Genealogie of all Popish Monks, 1646, 4$^o$.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Messalina

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MESSALINA,
Wife of Nero, also called Statilia, was descended from a consular family, and married the consul Atticus Visticus, whom Nero murdered. She received her husband's murderer with tenderness, and married four husbands before she came to the imperial throne. After the death of Nero, in 68, she retired from public life, and occupied herself with literary pursuits. Otho, the eighth Emperor of Rome, next addressed her, but before their marriage he destroyed himself, in the year 69.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Metrana, Anna

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METRANA, ANNA,
An Italian lady, lived in 1718, and is mentioned by Orlandi as an eminent portrait-painter.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Milner, Mary

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MILNER, MARY,
Is an English female writer, who has done good service to the cause of religion, by striving to infuse into the current periodical and other literature of the day, a spirit of true christian piety. A brief glance at the various writings of this lady will show that her efforts in this direction have neither been few nor unsuccessful. To the numerous readers of these works, as well as to the religious public generally, the following few particulars of her life will not be uninteresting.
She is the eldest daughter of Thomas Wilberforce Compton, Esq., a relative of that great man who so materially contributed to the success of the Anti-Slavery movement in. this country. Mary Compton was born November 12th., 1797, and resided from infancy with her great-uncle the late Very Rev. Isaac Milner, Dean of Carlisle, and President of Queen's College, Cambridge, where he was also professor of mathematics. She was married, February 15th., 1820, to the Rev. Joseph Milner, Vicar of Appleby, Westmorland, where she still resides.
Besides her contributions to periodicals, which are numerous, she has written "The Christian Mother," published in 1838; "The Life of Dean Milner," 1842; an abridgment of the same work in 1844; "Sketches illustrative of Important Periods in the History of the World, with Observations on the Moral and Religious uses of History," 1843; a second series of these sketches came out a year or two after. In 1849, Mrs. Milner edited a revised and enlarged edition of "Mrs. Trimmer's History of England," for Messrs. Grant and Griffith; and, in 1850, appeared under her editorship the "People's Gallery of Engravings," in four superb quarto volumes; also "The Juvenile Scrap-Book." ​"The Garden, the Grove, and the Field," a beautifully written volume on the natural, poetical, and religious aspects of the months and seasons, appeared in 1852; and this we believe is her latest work. We must not omit to mention the "Englishwoman's," or, as it is now called, the "Christian Lady's Magazine," a monthly periodical of high literary merit and decided religious tendency, which has now been in existence, and conducted by Mrs. Milner, upwards of twelve years.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Merian, Maria Sibylla

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MERIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA,
A German artist, was born at Frankfort in 1647. She was the daughter of Matthew Merian, a celebrated engraver and topographer. Miss Merian became a pupil of Abraham Mingon, from whom she learned great neatness of handling, and delicacy of colour. She painted from nature, reptiles, flowers, and insects, which she studied with the most curious and minute observation. She frequently painted her subjects in water-colours on vellum, and finished an astonishing number of designs. She drew flies and caterpillars in all the variety of changes and forms in which they successively appear. She even undertook a voyage to Surinam to paint those insects and reptiles which were peculiar to that climate; and, on her return, published two volumes of engravings after her designs. Her works arc still referred to by writers on entomology. She died at Amsterdam, in 1717.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Milton, Mary

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MILTON, MARY,
The first wife of the poet Milton, was the eldest daughter of Richard Powell, Esq., a magistrate of Oxfordshire. In 1643, at a very early age, she became the wife of John Milton, a connexion, for many reasons, very unsuitable. Mr. Powell was a zealous royalist, who practised the jovial hospitality of the country gentleman of that period; and the transition from the unrestrained freedom of such a home, to the sombre restraint of Milton's dull residence, in a close and confined street of London—a constraint no doubt increased by his naturally reserved and abstracted nature, and the puritanic influences which surrounded him—so wearied the young creature, that she sought an invitation from her father, and in less than a month from her marriage, returned home on a visit. Here, as the summer passed on, she received repeated messages and letters from her husband, summoning her home, all of which were disregarded. Milton, incensed at her disobedience, viewed her conduct as a deliberate desertion, which broke the marriage contract, and determined to punish it by repudiation. This matrimonial disagreement gave rise to his treatises on the "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce;" the "Judgment of Martin Bucer concerning Divorce;" and "Tetrachordon, or Expositions upon four chief Places of Scripture which treat of Marriage." Convinced by his own arguments, Milton began to pay his addresses to a lady of great accomplishments, which alarmed the parents of his wife, and, no doubt, awoke her to a sense of the impropriety of her conduct. While on a visit to a neighbour and kinsman, he was surprised by the sudden entrance of his wife, who threw herself at his feet, and expressed her penitence. After a short struggle of resentment, he again received her, and sealed the reconciliation by opening his house to her father and brothers, who had been driven from their home by the triumph of the republican arms.
Mrs. Milton died young, leaving three daughters, who severally filled the office of amanuensis and reader to their father, in his darkened old age.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Meredith, Louisa A.

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MEREDITH, LOUISA A.,
Whose maiden name was Twamley, is an accomplished artist ​with her pencil, as well as an agreeable and well-informed writer. Her first publications were in the fashion of very elegant gift books;—"Our Wild Flowers," and "The Romance of Nature," illustrated by exquisite flowers copied from drawings after nature by the authoress. The literary matter is full of information, where science, free from pedantry, instructs in every page. After her marriage in 1844, she accompanied her husband to Australia, and the journey gave rise to "Notes and Sketches of New South Wales;" a book which cannot fail to please every intelligent reader. In 1852, Mrs. Meredith published a work in two volumes, entitled "My Home in Tasmania," which was dedicated to the Queen; it details her nine years experience of life in the remote colony in which her future lot appears to be cast, and consists of a series of charming sketches of life and nature executed with much graphic power and variety. To the Flora and Fauna of Tasmania the lively sketcher devotes particular attention, and enters with much enthusiasm into these agreeable and interesting branches of her subject.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Milesi, Bianca

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MILESI, BIANCA
Of Milan, has been very carefully educated by judicious parents. Possessing a mind capable of the highest cultivation, every thing which instructors can effect has been done to render her thoroughly accomplished. Not satisfied with a proficiency in the lighter intellectual acquirements, the most profound studies have received her patient and indefatigable attention. As her abilities and her laborious course of study were well known, her first appearance in the Republic of Letters was greeted with an applause that her subsequent works have fully justified. She is a respectable artist, having studied painting at Rome, and developed a genius for that art, which would have rendered her remarkable even without her scientific honours.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Miller, Lady

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MILLER, LADY,
Resided at Bath-Easton, near Bath. She published "Letters from Italy," and also a volume of poems. She was well known as a literary lady, and a patroness of literature. Her death occurred in 1781.
# A Series of Plays in which it is attempted to delineate The Stronger Passions of the Mind, Volume Two/The Election

THE ELECTION:
A COMEDY,
IN FIVE ACTS.
PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.
MEN:
Baltimore, country gentleman and the head of an old family fallen into decay. Freeman, a great clothier, who has acquired by his own industry a very large fortune. Truebridge, the friend of Baltimore. Charles, an idle young man, cousin to Baltimore, and brought up in his house.
Jenkison,} Servet,}Two Attorneys.
Bescatti, an Italian master.
David,}
Peter, }Servants to Baltimore.
Voters, Mob, Boys, Jailers, &c. &c.
WOMEN:
Mrs. Baltimore. Mrs. Freeman. Charlotte, daughter to Freeman. Governess. Margery, an old servant of the Baltimore family.
Servants, Voters, Wives, Mob, &c.
# A Series of Plays in which it is attempted to delineate The Stronger Passions of the Mind, Volume Two/The Second Marriage

THE
SECOND MARRIAGE:
A COMEDY.
IN FIVE ACTS.
PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.
MEN:
Seabright. Beaumont, a worthy clergyman, who is his friend and his brother-in-law. Lord Allcrest. Sir Crafty Supplecoat. Plausible, a schemer. Prowler, his knavish follower. William Beaumont, son to Beaumont. Morgan, uncle to Seabright's first wife. Robert. Gardener, Sharp, and Servants, &c.
WOMEN:
Lady Sarah, sister to Lord Allcrest. Sophia, daughter to Seabright. Mrs. Beaumont. Pry, Lady Sarah's woman. Landlady, Servants, &c.
Scene: Seabright's house in the country, not far from London, and a mall country Inn near it.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lalande, Henriette-Clémentine

From volume 2 of the work.
[ J. M. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lambeth, Henry

[ W. He. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lajeunesse

From volume 2 of the work.
​LAJEUNESSE, the family name of Madlle. Marie Emma Albani, who was born in 1851 of French Canadian parents, at Chambly, near Montreal, and is therefore an English subject. Her father was a professor of the harp, and she began life in a musical atmosphere. At the age of five the family removed to Montreal, and Madlle. Lajeunesse entered the school of the Convent of the Sacre Coeur. Here she remained several years, with such instruction in singing as the convent could afford, and she is said to have abandoned the idea of adopting a religious life on the representation of the Superior of the convent, who discovered the great qualities of her pupil.
[ H. S. E. ]
[App. p.519 "Albani, Mme., born 1850, not '51, whose full christian names are Marie Louise Cécilia Emma, since 1879 has appeared each year in Italian opera at Covent Garden, excepting that year and 1885. Her new parts have been:—June 26, 1880, Isabella (production of 'Pré aux Clercs'); June 21, 1881, Tamara, on production of 'Il Demonio' (Rubinstein); July 11, 1882, Margaret and Helen of Troy, on production at above theatre of 'Mefistofele'; and July 15, 1884, Brunhild (production of Reyer's 'Sigurd'). In the German season there of 1884, under Richter, she played her favourite parts of Senta and Elsa. In the season of 1887 she added to her already large repertory (wherein we remark that no work of Rossini or Meyerbeer is included) the leading part in 'La Vie pour le Czar' (July 12) and was announced to appear in 'Il Matrimonio segreto,' but that opera was not given.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lalo, Edouard

[ A. J. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lambert, George

From volume 2 of the work.
​LAMBERT, George Jackson, son of George Lambert, organist of Beverley Minster, was born at Beverley in 1795 [App. p.695 "Nov. 16, 1794"]. He studied under his father until he was sixteen, then in London under Samuel Thomas Lyon, and finally became a pupil of Dr. Crotch. In 1818 he succeeded his father at Beverley. His compositions include overtures, instrumental chamber music, organ fugues, pianoforte pieces, etc. In 1874 ill health and deafness compelled him to relinquish his post and retire from active life. [App. p.695 "date of death, Jan. 24, 1880."]
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lajarte, Théodore de

From volume 2 of the work.
[ G. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lalla Roukh

From volume 2 of the work.
[ G. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lalande, Michel de

[ A. J. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lalla Rookh

From volume 2 of the work.
​LALLA ROOKH. Moore's poem has been the parent of several musical compositions.
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[App. p.695 "add 2. 'Lalla Rukh,' a dramatic piece by Spontini, produced Jan. 27, 1821, at the Royal Palace, Berlin. [See vol. iii. p. 673.] Change 2, 3, 4, 5, to 3, 4, 5, 6. Add 7. 'Paradise and the Peri,' Cantata, John F. Barnett, Birmingham, 1870. For other musical compositions based on the poem see Clay, vol. i. 369b; Paradise and the Peri, vol. ii. 648b; and Stanford, vol. iii. 689."]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lamb, Benjamin

From volume 2 of the work.
[ W. H. H. ]
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/A Lover's Wish (Théodore de Banville)

A LOVER'S WISH.
THÉODORE DE BANVILLE.
When Death relentless, envious of our bliss, Of breath deprives us in our last, last kiss, And throws the sombre shadow of his wings Upon us, while recede all earthly things— May we repose beneath two twin-like stones, And may twin-roses grow above our bones, Roses of perfume rare, of colours bright, From darkness springing into glorious light, United, like our souls borne far away To the warm sunshine of an endless day;— And near on trees, to symbolise our loves, In pairs still nestle the white turtle-doves!
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/After the Battle (Victor Hugo)

AFTER THE BATTLE.
VICTOR HUGO.
My sire, the hero with the smile so soft, And a big trooper, his companion oft, Whom he loved greatly for his courage high And strength and stature, as the night drew nigh Rode out together. The battle was done. The dead strewed the field. Long sunk was the sun. It seemed in the darkness a sound they heard, A feeble moan, or some half-uttered word. 'Twas a Spaniard from the army in flight Who had crawled to the road after the fight; Shattered and livid, and more than half-dead, Rattled his throat as quite faintly he said:— 'Water—water to drink, for pity's sake! Oh—a drop of water my thirst to slake!' And my father, moved at these words heart-wrung, The gourd of rum at his saddle that hung To the trooper handed, who sharp down sprung. 'Let him drink his fill,' cried my father;—and ran The trooper to the sorely wounded man, A sort of Moor, swarthy, bloody, and grim. But soon as the trooper had bent o'er him He seized a pistol, turned fiercely about, And aimed at my father's head with a shout. The ball passed so near, that its whistling sound He heard, while his cap fell pierced to the ground, And his steed reared back with terror aghast— 'Give him the drink,' cried my father, and past.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/A Flame (Charles Coran)

A FLAME.
CHARLES CORAN.
Sportsmen overtaken by night, sportsmen all loaded with game, By the old winding roadway back to the village we came, But down there—what, what is that light?
One of us, a farmer, said:—'On the summit of the hill It is Lucas the shepherd, he guards my flocks by the mill, His fire of vine-branches burns bright.'
A churchwarden soon answered:—'Neighbour, your pardon and leave, It's the moon which strikes on—for look, how clear is the eve— The cock on our church-steeple's height.'
The proud mayor interrupted:—'No, no sir, it is not, It's a torch of rebellion,—the low knaves brew a plot; Ho! Gendarmes, shoot, shoot them outright'
'All errors, good sirs,'—said the master that taught in the school, 'Look how it is moving,—if it isn't Jupiter I'm a fool, It's the planet that gleams on our sight.'
But I said low, low in my heart:—'It's a link or a brand, And it gleams from the castle's high turret—held in the hand Of a girl with cheeks red and white.'
Yes,—the beacon far streaming is an accomplice of Love, It apprises the lover back from the chase, that his dove Is watching to meet him at night.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Advice to a Young Poet (Auguste Vacquerie)

ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET.
AUGUSTE VACQUERIE.
'An artist, sir, should live in art.'—Tennyson.
Friend, care for art, and care not for success, It matters not if fools insult or bless; Doubts, fears for thee would in my breast prevail, If from the outset thou didst spread full sail, And no winds adverse, quicksands, battles hard, And death-fears even, crossed thee to retard. Those who are great pass not, though every door Open before them. Thou shouldst set no store Upon the mode or fashion of the hour: That passes; and the name, to-day of power, To-morrow shall be eaten up by rust: Dust soon returns, alas! to kindred dust. The mode requires a marvel at each turn; Oh, what a god! Let us our incense burn, Is still the cry. But gods of yesterday, What are they now? The potter's common clay. The hope of an eternity of light Once theirs, is over in a single night. Thou, therefore, heedless of the senseless crowd, Brood on thy thought, and to thy goal steer proud; Work, work unceasing with thy pen in hand, Or brow deep buried, till arising grand
Stands forth the new Idea like a star, Apparent, lustrous, clear, if still afar; And with thy sweat and blood achieve thy task, Which brings its own reward—no other ask. If thou, insensible to all abuse Or worse, faint lukewarm praise so oft in use, Livest in art, and carest not who hears, And who indifferent heeds not, while he sneers, And art not angry when blind men exhort, Or honest men in praising, praise too short; Thou too shall have at last the mob's acclaim, Longer, though later, and the noise called fame: But oh, forget not, should it still delay, Now means an hour, to-morrow means for aye.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/An Epitaph (Edmond Dallier)

originally published in M. Gustave Masson's book, La Lyre Française
AN EPITAPH.
EDMOND DALLIER.
A fearless, mild and faithful friend lies here, Faithful to death,—O stranger, drop a tear! When, sick and poor, men left me as a log, He stayed. And who was he? Alas! my dog.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/A Page from the Bible (Arsène Houssaye)

A PAGE FROM THE BIBLE.
ARSÈNE HOUSSAYE.
I
The rural sounds of eve were softly blending— The fountain's murmur like a magic rhyme, The bellow of the cattle homeward wending, The distant steeple's melancholy chime;
The peasants' shouts that charms from distance borrow, The greenfinch whirring in its amorous flight, The cricket's chirp, the night-bird's song of sorrow, The laugh of girls who beat the linen white.
The breeze scarce stirred the reeds beside the river, The swallows saw their figures as they flew In that clear mirror for a moment quiver, Before they vanished in the clouds from view.
And schoolboys wilder than the winging swallows Far from the master with his look severe, Bounded like fawns, to gather weeds, marsh-mallows And primrose blossoms to the young heart dear.
II
Along the path now rising and now dipping, Sudden there came, as supple as a reed, A blue-eyed girl, who balanced, lightly tripping, An earthen pitcher, fair she was indeed!
Her brow was almost veiled, and in its beauty Bent languid, while the waves of some day-dream Passed o'er it—but her feet, still true to duty, Glided unconscious to the accustomed stream.
The wind upon her shoulders smooth had scattered Her brown hair with its streaks of shining gold. A periwinkle—one—her undress flattered, A rural ornament charming to behold.
Beside the fount from whence the clear stream slanted Upon a stone she knelt, and looked above; And then more joyously the bullfinch chanted His canticle of sacred, sacred love.
III
Came by a mendicant, with no friends loving, A branch of oak appeared his only friend; His old frame trembled, and he looked as moving Unto a grave that must his journeys end.
Upon the branches of a birch with sadness His empty wallet carefully he hung, Then o'er the waters murmuring in their gladness, An eager longing gaze of thirst he flung.
He tried to drink, his efforts were beguiling, The girl his trouble saw, and came in aid, Offered her pitcher, and divinely smiling, 'Drink, O my father, drink,' she gently said.
It was a scene of old—my bosom bounded, Years, centuries, seemed back again to roll; And ere it set, the sun methought had rounded The girl's pure forehead with an aureole.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Advice and Reply (Les Châtiments, Victor Hugo)

ADVICE AND REPLY.
VICTOR HUGO.
(Les Châtiments.)
They say, Oh, be prudent. Then comes this dithyrambe: Wouldst thou strike down Nero? Then crawl and be noiseless—a wolf clothed like a lamb! Success makes the hero.
Think of Ettenheim; wait; wait the day and the hour, In patience be grounded; Like Chereas, come alone, silent, sure of thy power, By darkness surrounded.
Let Prudence conduct thee, thy reward she shall give; Be masked, false and hollow; Ah well: let those anxious a long period to live This sage counsel follow.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Appendix

APPENDIX.
LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Après le Coup d'État (Victor Hugo)

APRÈS LE COUP D'ÉTAT.
VICTOR HUGO.
Before foul treachery, and heads bent down, I'll cross mine arms, indignant but serene, O faith in fallen things,—be thou my crown, My force, my joy, the prop on which I lean.
Yes, whilst he's there, or struggle some, or fall, O France, dear France, for whom I weep in vain, Tomb of my sires, nest of my loves,—my all, I ne'er shall see thee with these eyes again.
I shall not see thy sad, sad, sounding shore, France, save my duty, I shall all forget; Amongst the true and tried, I'll tug mine oar, And rest proscribed to spurn the fawning set.
O bitter exile, hard, without a term, Thee I accept, nor seek, not care to know Who have down-truckled 'mid the men deemed firm, And who have fled, that should have fought the foe.
If true a thousand stand, with them I stand, A hundred? 'Tis enough: we'll Sylla brave, Ten? Put my name down foremost in the band, One? Well, alone,—until I find my grave.
# A Family History of Venkatagiri Rajas/16th Generation

Sixteenth Generation.
Kumara Thimma Naidu.
Kumara Thimma Naidu, the third son, was the chief member of this line. He also continued to stay at Velugodu, and was known for his general religious charities.