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Updated: June 17, 2025
The Papal court at Avignon, under Clement VI., "became", says Dr. Milman, "the most splendid, perhaps the gayest, in Christendom. The Provencals might almost think their brilliant and chivalrous counts restored to power and enjoyment.
And of the behaviour of the crusaders on the first capture of Jerusalem, 1099, Dean Milman writes: Murder was mercy, rape tenderness, simple plunder the mere assertion of the conqueror's right. Children were seized by their legs, some of them plucked from their mother's breasts, and dashed against the walls, or whirled from the battlements.
I was told that I could have an official form for this purpose; and, thanking the Governor, I withdrew to join my companions. Let me here thank Colonel Milman for his unvarying kindness.
On the other hand, the strong points were the music, the effect of which is said to have been unrivalled; the actual performance of the service, my friend Dean Milman is renowned for his manner of reading the funeral service, he officiated at the burial of Mrs. I suppose you will have seen how England is flooded, and you will like to hear that this tiny speck has escaped.
Are these the men who, in their venal good-nature, presumed to draw a parallel between the Rev. Mr. Milman and Lord Byron? What gnat did they strain at here, after having swallowed all those camels?
IV. 24, 108, apud Lingard; Rymer, IX. 89, 119, 129, 170, 193; Milman, Vol. V. p. 520-535. 2 Hen. V. stat. 1, cap. 7. There is no better test of the popular opinion of a man than the character assigned to him on the stage; and till the close of the sixteenth century Sir John Oldcastle remained the profligate buffoon of English comedy.
Pondering this iconoclastic utterance, how delightful it is to light upon evidence in the way of well-worn volumes that, since 1807, men and women here have been carefully reading Gibbon, who, as Dean Milman said, "has bridged the abyss between ancient and modern times and connected together the two worlds of history."
MONDAY, 27th. Horace Twiss has been out of town, and I have been obliged to delay this for a frank. You will be glad, I know, to hear that "Fazio" has made a great hit. Milman is coming to see me in it to-night; I wish I could induce him to write me such another part. We are over head and ears in the mire of chancery again.
On the other hand, 'Samor' and 'Anne Boleyn' were almost absolute failures, and, on the whole, the longer poems of Milman have not retained their popularity, and probably now rarely find a reader. Those who turn to them will certainly be struck by the command of language and metre they display. It was shown both in rhyme and in blank verse.
She has done more to deprave the ideas of our townspeople than one would believe, and they tell you with such pleasure that she used to work in New York, as if that settled the question. It is a comfort to see old Sally Turner and Miss Betsy Milman go by in their decent dark silk bonnets that good Susan Martin made for them.
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