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# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Biblis

BIBLIS, a Christian Martyr at Lyons, during the Persecution of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius,
At first had the weakness to apostatise from fear; but still a Christian in her heart, she abhorred herself for the crime, and could not conceal the horror and indignation she felt at the rites of paganism. She was again arrested and put to the torture. Believing her to be of intelligence with the Christians, they thought to make her own the crimes they were accused of; amongst others, that of eating children. "How can that be," cried Biblis, "when they are forbidden to shed blood!" Resolute to expiate her former fault; she continued to justify them, and suffered martyrdom.
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# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Blanchefleur

BLANCHEFLEUR, a Provençal Poetess, cotemporary of Laura de Sade.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Bland, (Elizabeth)

BLAND, (ELIZABETH) learned in the Hebrew Languages, and particularly skilful in writing it,
Daughter and heiress of Mr. Fisher, of Long-acre, born about the time of the Restoration. She was married, April 1681, to Mr. Nathaniel Bland (then a linen-draper in London, afterwards lord of the manor of Beeston, in the parish of Leeds, Yorkshire, his paternal inheritance, where they resided many years); their ​children all died in infancy, excepting two. She was instructed in the Hebrew language by the lord Van Helmont, which she understood to such a degree of perfection, that she taught it to her son and daughter.
Among the curiosities of the Royal Society, there is preserved a philactery in Hebrew, of her writing, of which Dr. Grew gives the following account; "It is only a single scroll of parchment, of an inch broad, and fifteen inches long; with four sentences of the law, viz. Exod. viii. from 7 to 11, and from 13 to 19, most curiously written upon it in Hebrew. Serarius, from the Rabbins, saith, that they were written severally upon so many scrolls; and that the Jews do to this day wear them over their foreheads in that manner; so that they are of several sorts or modes, whereof this is one. This was wrote at the request of Mr. Thoresby, and was given by her to that repository."
She was living in 1712; but when she died is uncertain, nor is it now known whether she wrote any thing for the public.
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# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Bestia, (Appia)

BESTIA, (APPIA) a rich Lady of Capua,
Who rendered herself illustrious during the wars of Hannibal and the Romans, by exercising, indifferently towards each, hospitality to the wounded, and liberality towards the prisoners of war.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Sybella

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SYBELLA,
Wife of Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, lived in the twelfth century. Her husband was wounded by a poisoned arrow, and, while he slept, Sybella applied her lips to the wound, and drew forth the venom, which soon caused her death.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Symphorosa

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SYMPHOROSA.
A Roman matron, living in the reign of Trajan, embraced the Christian faith with her seven sons. During Trajan's persecution of the Christians, about the year 108, Symphrosa was ordered to sacrifice to the heathen deities. Refusing to comply with this command, she and her sons were cruelly put to death. Many other women suffered death in this persecution for the same cause.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Sulpitia

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SULPITIA,
A Roman poetess, who lived in the reign of Domitian, in the first century after Christ. She has been called the Roman Sappho. There are none of her writings left but a fragment of a satire against Domitian, who published a decree for the banishment of the philosophers from Rome. This satire has usually been printed at the end of the Satires of Juvenal, to whom it has been sometimes falsely attributed. From the invocation, it would seem that she was the author of many other poems, and the first Roman lady who taught her sex to vie with the Greeks in poetry. Her language is easy and elegant, and she appears to have had a ready talent for satire. She is mentioned by Martial and Sidonius Apollinaris, and is said to have addressed to her husband Calenus, who was a Roman knight, "A Poem on Conjugal Love." The thirty-fifth epigram in Martial's tenth book refers to her poem on conjugal love.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Surville, Marguerite Eleonore Clotilde de

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SURVILLE, MARGUERITE ELEONORE CLOTILDE DE,
Of the noble family of Vallon Chalys, was the wife of Berenget de Surville, and lived in those disastrous times which immediately succeeded the battle of Agincourt. She was born in 1405, and educated in the court of the Count de Foix, where she gave an early proof of literary and poetical talent, by translating, when eleven years old, one of Petrarch's Canzoni, with a harmony of style wonderful, not only for her age, but for the time in which she lived. At the age of sixteen, she married the Chevalier de Surville, then, like herself, in the bloom of youth, and to whom she was passionately attached. In those days no man of high standing, who had a feeling for the misery of his country, or a hearth and home to defend, could avoid taking an active part in the scenes of barbarous strife around him; and De Surville, shortly after his marriage, followed his heroic sovereign, Charles the Seventh, to the field. During his absence, his wife addressed to him the ​most beautiful effusions of conjugal tenderness to be fband in tin compass of poetry.
Her husband, Count de Surville, closed his brief career at the siege of Orleans, where he fought under the banner of Joan of Arc. He was a gallant and a loyal knight; so were hundreds of others who then strewed the desolated fields of France; and De Surville had fallen undistinguished amid the general havoc of all that was noble and brave, if the love and genius of his wife had not immortalized him.
Clotilde, after her loss, resided in the château of her husband, in the Lyonnois, devoting herself to literature and the education of her son; and it is very remarkable, considering the times in which she lived, that she neither married again nor entered a religious house. The fame of her poetical talents, which she continued to cultivate in her retirement, rendered her at length an object of celebrity and interest. The Duke of Orleans happened one day to repeat some of her verses to Margaret of Scotland, the first wife of Louis the Eleventh, and that accomplished patroness of poetry and poets wrote her an invitation to attend her at court, which Clotilde modestly declined. The queen then sent her, as a token of her admiration and friendship, a wreath of laurel, surmounted with a bouquet of daisies, (Marguerites, in allusion to the name of both,) the leaves of which were wrought in silver and the flowers in gold, with this inscription: "Marguèrite d'Ecosse a Marguèrite d'Helicon." We are told that Alain Chartier, envious, perhaps, of these distinctions, wrote a satirical quatrain, in which he accused Clotilde of being deficient in l'air de cour; and that she replied to him, and defended herself, in a very spirited rondeau. Nothing more is known of the life of this interesting woman, but that she had the misfortune to survive her son as well as her husband; and dying at the advanced age of ninety, in 1495: she was buried with them in the same tomb.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Suze, Henrietta Coligny de la

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SUZE, HENRIETTA COLIGNY DE LA,
Was the daughter of the Marechal de Coligny. She was born in 1613, and was one of the most admired poetesses of the day. She was particularly praised for her elegies. Mademoiselle de Scuderi has given her the most high-flown eulogiums in her romance of "Cielia;" and she received tributes from all the beaux esprits; some Latin poems among others. It is said that, being engaged in a lawsuit with Madame de Chatillon, Madame de la Suze met that lady in the vestibule of the court of parliament, escorted by M. de la Feulllade, while she herself was accompanied by the poet Benserade. "Madame," said her adversary, "you have rhyme on your side, and we have reason upon ours."
"It cannot be alleged," retorted Madame de la Suze, "that we go to law without rhyme or reason."
Nothing could exceed the want of order in which she lived, nor her apathetic negligence of her affairs. One morning, at eight o'clock, her household goods were seized for debt; she was not up, and she begged the officer on duty to allow her to sleep a couple of hours longer, as she had been up late the night before. He granted her request, and took his seat in the ante-room. She slept comfortably till ten, when she arose, dressed herself for a dinner-party to which she was engaged, walked in to the officer, thanked him, and made him a great many compliments on his politeness and good manners; and coolly adding, "I leave you master of every thing," she went out. She and her husband lived very unhappily; they were Protestants. Madame de la Suze, having become a Roman Catholic, Queen Christina of Sweden said she did so that she might not meet her husband in the other world. She obtained a divorce from him at the sacrifice of a large sum of money. Madame de la Suze died in 1673.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana

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SUTHERLAND, HARRIET ELIZABETH GEORGIANA,
Is the third daughter of George, third Earl of Carlisle, and in every respect one of the very noblest of England's female aristocracy. As Mistress of the Robes to the Queen, and wife of the Duke of Sutherland, a nobleman of immense wealth and influence, she naturally takes her place as leader in the world of haut ton. But all this would not entitle her to her place in our volume, were it not that her high rank and brilliant personal qualifications are enriched and enhanced by her noble qualities of mind and heart. Foremost in rank, she is also so in good works, and in 1853 placed herself at the head of a popular movement against slavery. At Stafford House, her town residence, meetings were held, and there was drawn up the celebrated address from the ladies of England to those of America, which received an immense number of signatures, and expressed in strong, yet kind and womanly terms, the sorrow and reprobation with which negro slavery was viewed by the greater half of the people of this country. At Stafford House, too, Mrs. Stowe was entertained like a sister, the aristocracy of rank and the aristocracy of mind being there exhibited in their true filial relationship. High as the Duchess of Sutherland's name stands in the roll of British nobility, yet does it stand, as it will ever do, higher and shine brighter in that of good and philanthropic woman.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Taggart, Cynthia

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TAGGART, CYNTHIA,
Has won herself a place among those who deserve to be remembered, by her serene patience under the severest bodily sufferings, and the moral energy whereby she made these sufferings serve as instructors to her own mind, and to the hearts of pious Christians who may read her sorrowful story. The father of Cynthia Taggart was a soldier in the American war for independence. During this ​struggle his property was destroyed; and, dying in poverty, be had nothing to leave for the support of his daughters. They resided in Rhode Island, about six miles from Newport; and there, in a little cottage, this poor girl was born, about the year 1804. Her training was religious, though she had few opportunities of leaning; and when, at the age of nineteen, her strength became utterly prostrated by severe sufferings from a chronic disease of the bones and nerves, or rather of her whole physical system, she began her intellectual life, self-educated by her own sensations and reflections; and her soul was sustained in this conflict of bodily pain with mental power, by her strong and ardent faith in her Saviour. She enumerates among her greatest sufferings, her inability to sleep. For many years she was unable to close her eyes in slumber, except when under the powerful effect of anodynes; and it was during these long, dark watches of the night, when every pulse was a throb of pain, and every breath an agony of suffering, that she composed her soul to contemplations of the goodness of God and the beauties of nature, and breathed out her strains of poetry.
Her poems were collected and published in 1834, with an auto-biography sadly interesting, because it showed the hopeless as well as helpless condition of Miss Taggart; enduring death in life. The work has passed through several editions. Miss Taggart has been I released from her unparalleled sufferings. She died in 1849. Her poetry will have an interest for the afflicted; and few there are who pass through the scenes of life without feeling a chord of the heart respond to her sorrowful lyre.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Morendo

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Moriani, Napoleone

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Morley, William

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mori, Nicolas

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Morigi, Pietro

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Morley, Thomas

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Morelli, Giovanni

From volume 2 of the work.
​MORELLI, Giovanni, a basso with a voice of much power, compass, sweetness, and flexibility. He first appeared in London in Paisiello's 'Schiavi per Amore,' with Storace and Sestini, and Morigi, who had long been the first buffo caricato, but now became second to Morelli. The latter was a very good actor, but, having been running-footman to Lord Cowper at Florence, he was probably not much of a musician. He continued for many years in great favour, and sang at the Opera from time to time till he had scarcely a note left; but he was always received kindly as an old and deserving favourite.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Morichelli, Anna

From volume 2 of the work.
​MORICHELLI, Anna BOSELLO, was born at Reggio in 1760. Being endowed by nature with a pure and flexible voice, she was instructed by Guadagui, one of the best sopranists of the day. She made her début at Parma in 1779 with great éclat. After singing at Venice and Milan, she appeared at Vienna in 1781–2, and with difficulty obtained leave from the Emperor to return and fulfil an engagement at Turin. She continued to sing at the chief theatres of Italy, until Viotti engaged her for the Théâtre de Monsieur, at Paris, in 1790, where she remained during the years 1791–2. Here she was very highly appreciated, even by such good judges as Garat, and with this reputation she came to London in 1792, with Banti. Lorenzo d'Aponte, the poet of the London Opera-House, gives a severe description of these two singers in his Memoirs: he calls them 'equals in vice, passions, and dishonesty,' though differing in the methods by which they sought to accomplish their designs. To musical amateurs, such as Lord Mount-Edgcumbe, the Morichelli seemed far below her rival; 'She was, they said, a much better musician. So she might be, but never could have been half so delightful a singer, and she was now past her prime; her voice was not true, her taste spoiled by a long residence at Paris,… and her manner and acting were affected. In short, she did not please generally, though there was a strong party for her; and after her second season she went away, leaving behind her, in every print-shop, her portrait, with the flattering but false inscription, "Parti, mà vide che adorata partiva."'
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Morigi, Andrea

From volume 2 of the work.
​MORIGI, Andrea, an excellent basso, who made his first appearance in London on December 9, 1766, in the character of Taglfaferro, the German soldier in the 'Buona Figliuola,' a part which he performed most admirably. He must then have been a rather young man, for he held the position of first buffo caricato for many years, to the delight of London audiences. He had, however, been a member of the original caste of the 'Buona Figliuola,' with Lovattini, Savoi, and la Guadagni, in 1760, at Rome, which was probably his début. He was brought to London by Gordon, with the singers just mentioned, in the autumn of 1766. After that, he continued to appear in all the comic operas, such as 'I Viaggiatori ridicoli,' 'Vicende della sorte,' 'Pazzie d'Orlando,' 'La Schiava,' 'Il Carnovale,' 'Viaggiatori Felici,' and 'Il Convito,' down to the 'Rè Teodoro,' 'Schiavi per amore,' and 'Cameriera astuta,' in 1787 and 1788,—a long career, followed, indeed, as Lord Mount-Edgcumbe says, until Morigi had lost every note of his voice.
In the autumn of 1782 an unsuccessful début was made by Morigi's daughter in the part of prima donna in 'Medonte.' She tried her luck again in 'L'Olimpiade,' but was no more successful than before.
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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Taylor, Joseph

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​TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586–c. 1653), English actor, is mentioned in the folio Shakespeare of 1623 as one of the twenty-six who took principal parts in all of these plays. There is a legend that he was trained by Shakespeare to play Hamlet, and that he succeeded Burbage in this and other parts. Certain it is that in many of Beaumont and Fletcher’s plays he had a leading rôle, and he is one of the ten actors who signed the dedication of the first folio of these dramatists (1647).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Taylor, John (classicist)

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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Taylor

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​TAYLOR, a town in Williamson county, Texas, U.S.A., about 35 m. N.E. of Austin. Pop. (1890) 2584; (1900) 4211 (1260 negroes); (1910) 5314. It is served by the International & Great Northern and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railways. It is in a region especially devoted to the growing of cotton and grain and to poultry raising, and an annual county fair is held here. In the city are machine and car shops of the International & Great Northern railway, and cotton-compresses, and there are manufactures of cotton-seed oil, &c. Taylor, named in honour of Gen. Zachary Taylor, was founded in 1876, and was incorporated in 1882.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Taylor, Isaac (philologist)

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​TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901), English philologist, eldest son of the preceding, was born at Stanford Rivers, 2nd May 1829. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and took the mathematical tripos in 1853. His interests, however, were linguistic rather than mathematical, and his earliest publication was a translation from the German of W. A. Becker's Charicles. Though of Nonconformist stock, Isaac Taylor joined the Church of England, and in 1857 was ordained to a country curacy. In 1860 he published The Liturgy of the Dissenters, an appeal for the revision of the Book of Common Prayer "on Protestant lines," "as expedient for the material interests of the Church, and as an act of plain justice to the Dissenters." His studies in local etymology bore fruit in Words and Places in Etymological Illustration of History, Ethnology and Geography (1864). Between 1865 and 1869, when he was in charge of a Bethnal Green parish, his philological studies were laid aside, and he published only The Burden of the Poor and The Family Pen, a record of the literary work of his own family, the Taylors of Ongar. In 1869 he became incumbent of a church at Twickenham, and used his comparative leisure to produce his Etruscan Researches (1874), in which he contended for the Ugrian origin of the Etruscan language. In 1875 he was presented to the rectory of Settrington, Yorkshire, and began his systematic researches into the origin of the alphabet. His Greeks and Goths; a Study on the Runes (1879), in which he suggested that the runes were of Greek origin, led to a good deal of controversy. His most important work is The Alphabet, an Account of the Origin and Development of Letters (1883; new and revised edition 1899). Taylor points out that alphabetical changes are the result of evolution taking place in accordance with fixed laws. "Epigraphy and palaeography may claim, no less than philology or biology, to be ranked among the inductive sciences." He was largely indebted to the Egyptian researches of Rougé, which it has since become necessary to reconsider in the light of discoveries in Crete. In 1885 Taylor became canon of York, and two years later dean. His paper on the Origin of the Aryans, read at the British Association in 1887, was afterwards expanded into a book. In the following winter he visited Egypt, and his letters from there, collected under the title Leaves from an Egyptian Notebook, aroused considerable controversy from the extremely favourable view he took of the Mahommedan religion. For the last few years of his life Dean Taylor suffered from ill health, and was laid aside from active work for some time before his death in October 1901.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Taylor, Isaac (author)

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​TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865), English author, son of Isaac Taylor (1750-1829), engraver and author, was born at Lavenham, Suffolk, on the 17th of August 1787. He was trained by his father to be an engraver, but early adopted literature as a profession. From 1824, the year of his marriage, he lived a busy but uneventful life at Stanford Rivers, near Ongar, Essex, where he died on the 28th of June 1865. His attention was drawn to the study of the fathers of the church through reading the works of Sulpicius Severus, which he had picked up at a bookstall. He published a History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times (1827), a study in biblical criticism, and some other works, but he attracted little notice until, in 1829, he published anonymously a book bearing upon the religious and political problems of the day, entitled The Natural History of Enthusiasm, which speedily ran through eight or nine editions. Fanaticism (1833), Spiritual Despotism (1835), Saturday Evening (1832), and The Physical Theory of Another Life (1836), all commanded a large circulation. In his Ancient Christianity (1839-46), a series of dissertations in reply to the "Tracts for the Times," Taylor maintained that the Christian church of the 4th century should not be regarded as embodying the doctrine and practice of the apostles because it was then already corrupted by contact with pagan superstition. The book met with great opposition, but Taylor did not follow up the controversy.
Among his other works may be mentioned biographies of Ignatius Loyola (1849) and John Wesley (1851); a volume entitled The Restoration of Belief (1855); and a course of lectures on The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry (1861).
# A Description of New England/To his worthy Captaine, the Author

To his worthy Captaine, the Author.