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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Aspasia, or Milto

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ASPASIA, or MILTO,
Mistress of Cyrus the younger, was born about 421 B. C, of free parents, at Phocis, in Ionia. She was brought up virtuously, but in poverty, and being very beautiful, with a profusion of light curling hair, very uncommon in that country, she attracted the notice of one of the satraps of Cyrus, who forced her father to give her to him for the seraglio of this prince. Her modesty, dignity, and grief had such an effect on Cyrus, that he made her his wife in everything but the name, consulting her in the most important affairs, and following her counsels. He changed her name to Aspasia, that being the appellation of the celebrated wit and beauty of Miletus. Aspasia bore her honours with the greatest moderation, and availed herself of the change in her fortunes only to rescue her father from his poverty. When Cyrus was killed, B.C. 401, in the ambitious attempt to dethrone his brother Artaxerxes, Aspasia was taken prisoner and brought before the conqueror. Artaxerxes treated her with the greatest attention, and made her the first among his women, although he could not marry her, as his wife Statira was still living. He ordered her to be clothed in magnificent apparel, and to be sumptuously lodged; but it was long before his attentions or kindness could efface the memory of Cyrus, whom she had tenderly loved She showed the utmost indifference, through her whole life, to her own personal aggrandizement, and would seldom accept any present which she did not need. On one occasion Cyrus had sent her a chain of gold, remarking that "It was worthy the wife of a king;" but she requested him to send it to his mother Parysatis. This so pleased Parysatis, that she sent Aspasia many grand presents and a large sum of gold, all of which Aspasia gave to Cyrus, after praising the generosity of his mother.
"It may be of service to you," said she, "who are my riches and ornament."
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Aspasia

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ASPASIA,
Of Miletus, and daughter of Axiochus, lived principally at Athens. She gained the affections of Pericles, who, according to Plutarch divorced his first wife, with her own consent, in order to marry Aspasia. We are told little of her beauty, but much of her mental powers and cultivation. In eloquence, she surpassed all her contemporaries. She was the friend, and, according to Plato, the instructress of Socrates, who gives her the high praise of "having made many good orators, and one eminent over all the Greeks, Pericles, the son of Xanthippus." On this and similar authority we learn, that Pericles was indebted to Aspasia for much of his high mental cultivation. The Athenians used often to bring their wives to hear her converse, notwithstanding what was said of her immoral life. She is accused of having excited, from motives of personal resentment, the war of Peloponnesus; yet, calamitous as that conflict proved to Greece, Aspasia inflicted on the country still more incurable evils. Her example and instructions formed a school at Athens, by which her dangerous profession was reduced to a system.
Aspasia, on occasion of the check of the Athenian army, came herself into the assembly of the people, and pronounced an oration, inciting them to rally and redeem their cause; her speech was followed to be far more eloquent than those of Gorgias, and other famous orators who spoke on the same conjuncture.
Hermippus, a comic poet, prosecuted Aspasia for impiety, which seems to have consisted in disputing the existence of their imaginary gods, and introducing new opinions about celestial appearances. But she was acquitted, though contrary to the law, by means of Pericles, who is said to have shed tears in his application for mercy in her behalf.
It should not be omitted that some modern writers have maintained opinions on the life of Aspasia very different from those popularly entertained. They say, the woman whom Socrates respected, the woman who for years was the bosom counsellor of so eminent a man as Pericles, never could have been devoid of personal purity; vice palls; vice may please by charms of exterior, but never could keep up mental enthusiasm such as Aspasia certainly excited and retained with Pericles. They suggest that aspersions were thrown upon her character by Aristophanes, to wound Pericles through her bosom but that the friend, the adviser, the sympathize ​companion of the man who has been called Princeps Gracia, was not a courtezan.
Pericles died at the age of seventy, B. C. 429; and after this we hear nothing of Aspasia, excepting that she transferred her affections to Lysicles, a grazier, who, in consequence of her influence, became, for a time, one of the leading men in Athens.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Athaliah

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ATHALIAH,
The daughter of Ahab, king of Samaria, and of Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, was wife of Jeboram, king of Jadah, who walked in the idolatrous ways of the house of Ahab. Jehoram died in the year B. C. 885, and the kingdom devolved on Ahaziah their son. Ahaziah reigned only one year, and on his untimely death, Athaliah 'arose and slew all the seed-royal of the house of Judah,' although they were her grand-children, and ascended the throne B. C. 884, and reigned six years. At the end of that time, Joash, a son of Ahaziah, who had been concealed six years in the temple by his aunt Jehosheba, the wife of Jehoida the high-priest, was produced by Jehoida before the priests and soldiers, and anointed king. Athaliah hastened to the temple, and attempted to excite a reaction in her own favour by raising a cry of treason, but in vain, for Jehoida gave instant orders that she should be removed from the sacred enclosure and slain. This command was immediately obeyed, B. C. 878. The discovery of Joash is the subject of a tragedy by Racine, written by command of Madame de Maintenon.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Attenduli, Margaret d'

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ATTENDULI, MARGARET D',
A sister of the great Sforza, founder of the house of Sforza, dukes of Milan, was born about 1375, at Catignola, a small town in Italy. Her father was a day labourer; but after her brother James, under the name of Sforza, had made himself distinguished by his valour and skill, he sent for her to share his honours. She had married Michael de Catignola.
She seems to have shared her brother's heroic spirit: when James, count de la Marche, came to espouse Joanna the Second, queen of Naples, Sforza, then grand constable of Naples, was sent to meet him; but that prince threw him, his relations, and all his suit, into prison, thinking by this means to attain, more easily, the tyrannic power he afterwards assumed. When the news of Sforza's arrest arrived, Margaret, with her husband, and other relations who had served with honour in his troops, were at Tricarico. They assembled an army, of which Margaret took the command. The ill treatment Joanna experienced from her new husband, soon made the revolt general, and James was at length besieged in a castle, where the conditions proposed to him were, to be contented with the title of lieutenant-general of the kingdom, and give Sforza his liberty Knowing the value of his hostage, James sent deputies to Margaret, menacing her brother with instant death, if Tricarico were not given up to him. Anxious for her brother, but indignant at the proposition, she immediately imprisoned the deputies, whose families, alarmed for their safety, ceased not to intercede, until the count consented to set Sforza and his friends at liberty, and to reinstate him in his former situation.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Asenath

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ASENATH,
Daughter of Potiphar or Potiphera, and wife of Joseph, prime minister to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is supposed by some to be the daughter of the same Potiphar, whose wife had caused Joseph's imprisonment, and that Asenath had endeared herself to Joseph by taking his part in his adversity and vindicating him to her father.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Aubespine, Magdalen de l'

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AUBESPINE, MAGDALEN DE L',
A French lady, celebrated for her wit and beauty; was the wife of Nicholas de Neuville, seignieur de Villeroi. She composed several works in verse and prose, and died on her own demesne, in 1596. Ronsard held her in high estimation. She is also ​complimented by Francis Grudé, by whom we are informed she translated, in verse, the epistles of Ovid.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 64

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GON CHŪ-NAGON SADA-YORI
Asaborake Uji no kawagiri Tae-dae ni Araware wataru Seze no ajiro-gi.
THE ASSISTANT IMPERIAL ADVISER SADA-YORI
So thickly lies the morning mist, That I can scarcely see The fish-nets on the river bank, The River of Uji, Past daybreak though it be.
The writer was the son of the author of verse No. 55; he died in the year 1004. The River Uji is in the Province of Omi, and drains into Lake Biwa. Seze is a village on the lake-side, and a suburb of the larger town of Otsu. The poet, looking across the river, can hardly make out the fish-nets on the shore at Seze, because of the rising morning mist.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 67

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SUWO NO NAISHI
Haru no yo no Yume bakari naru Te-makura ni Kainaku tatan Na koso oshi kere.
THE LADY-IN-WAITING SUWO
If I had made thy proffered arm A pillow for my head For but the moment’s time, in which A summer’s dream had fled, What would the world have said?
The authoress was the daughter of Tsugunaka Taira, the Governor of the Province of Suwo, and a lady-in-waiting at the Court of the Emperor Goreizei, who reigned A.D. 1046–1068. She was present one day at a long and tedious court function, and, feeling very tired and sleepy, she called to a servant for a pillow; a nobleman on the other side of the screen, the First Adviser of State Tadaie, gallantly offered her his arm, with a request that she would rest her head there, and she replied with this verse. She intended him to understand that, though she was willing to accept him as her husband for life, she feared that his attachment would last no longer than a fleeting summer-night’s dream.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 69

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NŌ-IN HŌSHI
Arashi fuku Mimuro no yama no Momiji-ba wa Tatsuta no kawa no Nishiki nari keri.
THE PRIEST NŌ-IN
The storms, which round Mount Mimuro Are wont to howl and scream, Have thickly scattered maple leaves Upon Tatsuta’s stream; Like red brocade they seem.
The poet’s lay name was Nagayasu Tachibana; he was the son of Motoyasu Tachibana, the Governor of the Province of Hizen. Mount Mimuro and the Tatsuta River are both in the Province of Yamato, not far from Nara. The picture is not very clear, but the river is plainly depicted, and maple leaves are scattered all around.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 70

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RIYŌ-ZEN HŌSHI
Sabishisa ni Yado wo tachi-idete Nagamureba Izuko mo onaji Aki no yūgure.
THE PRIEST RIYŌ-ZEN
The prospect from my cottage shows No other hut in sight; The solitude depresses me, Like deepening twilight On a chill autumn night.
Nothing is known of this author, but he appears to have lived during the eleventh century. The Priest appears in the illustration, looking out over the bare landscape, with his tiny hut in the background.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 71

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DAI-NAGON TSUNE-NOBU
Yūsareba Kado-da no inaba Otozurete Ashi no maroya ni Aki kaze zo fuku.
THE FIRST ADVISER OF STATE TSUNE-NOBU
This autumn night the wind blows shrill, And would that I could catch Its message, as it whistles through The rushes in the thatch And leaves of my rice-patch.
Tsune-nobu, a member of the Minamoto family, was famous as a man of letters in the eleventh century, and died in the year 1096.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 63

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SAKYŌ TAIU MICHIMASA
Ima wa tada Omoi-taenamu Tobakari wo Hitozute narade Iu yoshi mo gana.
THE SHINTO OFFICIAL MICHIMASA OF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CAPITAL
If we could meet in privacy, Where no one else could see, Softly I’d whisper in thy ear This little word from me— ‘I’m dying, Love, for thee.’
Michimasa was a member of the Fujiwara family, who lived about the year 1030. He fell in love with the Princess Masako, a priestess of Ise; but when the Emperor heard of this, he put the Princess into confinement, where she was strictly guarded by female warders, and this verse was Michimasa’s request to her to try to arrange a private meeting with him. The words omoi-taenamu, which is the message he sends to her, mean, ‘I shall die of love’; but they can also mean ‘I shall think no more about you’; so perhaps he intended the verse to be read in different ways, according to whether it reached the Princess, or fell into the hands of her guards. In the picture Michimasa is shown outside the fortress, where the Princess is confined.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 65

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SAGAMI
Urami wabi Hosanu sode dani Aru mono wo Koi ni kuchinamu Na koso oshikere.
SAGAMI
Be not displeased, but pardon me, If still my tears o’erflow; My lover ’s gone, and my good name, Which once I valued so, I fear must also go.
This lady was the wife of Kinsuke Ōye, the Governor of the Province of Sagami, from which she got her name. The verse is said to have been composed at an Imperial poetical contest in the year 1051. The incidents mentioned in these verses are not all supposed to have really taken place; many of the poems, including this one, were simply written on a given subject for one of the poetical contests, which were so common at the period.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 68

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SANJŌ IN
Kokoro ni mo Arade uki yo ni Nagaraeba Koishikarubeki Yowa no tsuki kana.
THE RETIRED EMPEROR SANJŌ
If in this troubled world of ours I still must linger on, My only friend shall be the moon, Which on my sadness shone, When other friends were gone.
The Emperor Sanjō, who reigned A.D. 1012–1015, was the son of the Emperor Reisei; he fell into ill health, his palace was burnt down twice, and he was forced to abdicate by Michinaga Fujiwara (see verse No. 59).
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 66

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DAISŌJŌ GYŌSON
Morotomo ni Aware to omoe Yama zakura Hana yori hoka ni Shiru hito mo nashi.
THE ARCHBISHOP GYŌSON
In lonely solitude I dwell, No human face I see; And so we two must sympathize, Oh mountain cherry tree; I have no friend but thee.
The Archbishop is said to have ended his life in the year 1135, by the method described in the note to verse No. 12. The scene of this poem was the sacred mountain Ōmine, in the Province of Yamato, famous for its cherry blossoms, and the illustration shows the Priest with his two attendants addressing the cherry tree.
# A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 7

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ABE NO NAKAMARO
Ama no hara Furisake-mireba Kasuga naru Mikasa no yama ni Ideshi tsuki kamo.
NAKAMARO ABE
While gazing up into the sky, My thoughts have wandered far; Methinks I see the rising moon Above Mount Mikasa At far-off Kasuga.
The poet, when sixteen years of age, was sent with two others to China, to discover the secret of the Chinese calendar, and on the night before sailing for home his friends gave him a farewell banquet. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and after dinner he composed this verse. Another account, however, says that the Emperor of China, becoming suspicious, caused him to be invited to a dinner at the top of a high pagoda, and then had the stairs removed, in order that he might be left to die of hunger. Nakamaro is said to have bitten his hand and written this verse with his blood, after which he appears to have escaped and fled to Annam. Kasuga, pronounced Kasunga, is a famous temple at the foot of Mount Mikasa, near Nara, the poet’s home; the verse was written in the year 726, and the author died in 780.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Allen, William

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​ALLEN. (Captain, 1842, f-p., 14; h-p., 28.)
William Allen entered the Navy, 2 Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Standard 64, Capt. Thos. Harvey, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship and the Majestic 74, on the Mediterranean and Baltic stations, until Feb. 1810. He was present as Midshipman, while in the Standard, at the passage of the Dardanells, in Feb. 1807, and on 26 March, 1808, assisted at the capture, in the Adriatic, of the Italian brig of war Friedland, of 16 guns. On leaving the Majestic, Mr. Allen sailed in the Leda 36, Capt. Geo. Sayer, for the East Indies, where he co-operated in the reduction of Java in Aug. 1811, and took part in a vigorous and successful attack on the piratical settlement of Sambas, in Borneo, 28 June, 1813. He obtained his first commission 2 March, 1815, and after intermediately officiating as Lieutenant pro tem, of the Hesper 18, Capt. Wm. Everard, returned to England in the following September. Being next appointed, 12 Nov. 1834, to the William and Mary yacht, Capt. Sir Sam. Warren, he served in that vessel until promoted to the rank of Commander, 20 June, 1836. Joining, 10 Oct. 1840, the Wilberforce steamer, Capt. Allen subsequently attended a disastrous ​expedition to the Niger, whence he returned towards the close of 1842. He has since been on half-pay. His Post-commission bears date 31 Jan. 1842.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Allen, William Edward Hughes

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​ALLEN. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 23; h-p., 24.)
William Edward Hughes Allen, born 6 Feb. 1787, is son of William Allen, Esq., Admiral of the Red, who died in Oct. 1804; and grand-nephew of Sir Thos. Allen, also an officer in the Navy. An account of these gentlemen’s services will be found in the 1st and 6th volumes of Charnock’s Biographia Navalis.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College about the year 1800; and embarked, in Oct. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dryad 36, Capt. Robt. Williams, bearing the broad pendant afterwards of Commodore Wm. Domett, on the Irish station. In June, 1804, he became Midshipman of the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, from which ship, after bearing a warm part in the battle of Trafalgar, he removed, in Dec. 1805, to the Audacious 74, Capt. John Larmour. Early in the following year he rejoined Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Harvey, on board the Tonnant 80, oif the coast of Spain, where, during a subsequent attachment, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Confiance 18, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo, he saw some good service. Being confirmed, 25 March, 1807, into the Hercule 74, Capt. Hon. John Colville, Lieut. Allen, in the course of the same and of the following years, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen (where he commanded an armed boat in several rencounters with the enemy’s flotilla) and escorted home from Lisbon the surrendered Russian fleet. Proceeding to the East Indies towards the close of 1808, as Lieutenant of the Clorinde 38, Capt. Thos. Briggs, he there became Senior, 24 Aug. 1810, of the Cornwallis alias Akbar 44, Capts. Edw. Wallis Hoare, Thos. Gordon Caulfield, Wm. Fisher, and Henry Drury, and was present in that ship at the reduction both of the Mauritius and of the island of Java. He afterwards, when in command of the Akbar’s boats, captured a French schooner, carrying 12 brass six-pounders and 25 men, with two French Colonels on board, charged with despatches from Java. His next appointment, we find, was to the Cygnet 18, Capt. Robt. Russell, in which sloop he served, as First Lieutenant, from 13 Nov. 1812, until wrecked, oif the mouth of the Courantine River, 8 March, 1815. He subsequently obtained command, in Oct. 1822, and Dec. 1824, of the Castle Coote and Badger, Revenue-vessels; and, acquiring his present rank 28 Aug. 1828, was employed from 31 March, 1831, until April, 1834, as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has not since held any official appointment.
Commander Allen married, 5 Nov. 1815, Miss Ellen Bernie Kirk, and has issue two sons and three daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Amiel, William Eardley

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​AMIEL. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 18; h-p., 26.)
William Eardley Amiel was born, 5 March, 1792, at Cheltenham.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Aug. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Romulus, Capt. Woodley Losack, on removing with whom to the Helena 18, he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, 5 June, 1805, of the Santa Leocadia, Spanish privateer, of 14 guns and 114 men. Proceeding subsequently to the West Indies in the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, he there served, from 1808 to 1810, in the Franchise 36, commanded by Capt. Chas. Dashwood, and while on that station was intrusted with the charge of a boat at the reduction, in Dec. of the former year, of the Fort of Samana, St. Domingo. After a further servitude with Capt. Dashwood in the Pyramus 38, on the Baltic and Mediterranean stations, Mr. Amiel was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 21 March, 1812, in the Illustrious 74, bearing the flag in the East Indies of Sir Samuel Hood. His subsequent appointments afloat were, on his return home in the Bucephalus 32, Capt. Barrington Reynolds – 25 Oct. 1813, as Senior, to the Lightning 18, Capt. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle, under whom he participated in the operations of 1814 on the river Gironde – and, 12 Nov. 1815, to the President 50, Capt. Arch. Duff, which ship he left in Sept. 1816. With the exception of the command, from 5 March, 1832, to 5 March, 1837, of the Semaphore station at Kingston, in Surrey, he has not since been employed.
He married, first, 18 Aug. 1818, Martha, only daughter of T. Moore, Esq., of Park Place, St. James’s, by whom he had, with two daughters, three sons, of whom the eldest is a Lieutenant in H.M. 55th Regiment; and secondly, 11 Oct. 1838, Margaret Anne, third daughter of the Rev. Wm. Morgan, D.D., Rector of Aston Clinton, Bucks, and granddaughter of the late Wm. Minshull, Esq., of Boreton House and Aston Clinton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Amherst, Jeffery Reid

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​AMHERST. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 29.)
Jeffery Reid Amherst is son of the late Gen. Amherst.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1809, on board the Téméraire 98, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon. With that officer (if we except a brief attachment, towards the conclusion of the war, to the Nereus 32, Inconstant 36, and Albacore 18, Capts. ​Manley Hall Dixon, Sir Edw. Tucker, and Joseph Patey) he continued to serve, in the Ruby 64, and Vigo, Montagu, Achille, and Valiant 74’s, on the Baltic and Brazilian stations,, until presented by him with a hauling-down commission, 3 May, 1815. During the term of his servitude in the Baltic, Mr. Amherst was much employed in escorting large convoys through the Baltic and protecting them against the repeated attacks of the enemy’s flotilla. His appointments, subsequent to the peace, appear to have been – 1 May, 1830, to the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag, latterly in the Channel, of Sir Manley Dixon and Sir Edw. Codrington – and, 26 Nov. 1831, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of the former officer at Plymouth. He has been on halfpay since May, 1833.