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I commenced, and as she replied in the affirmative I went on: "I have first to apologize for coming to you, but Miss Sotheby, the principal of the school at Chichester, referred me to you for information as to the present whereabouts of Miss Elma Heath, who, I believe, was one of your most intimate friends at school."
I, too, will strive o'er earth my flight to raise, And wing'd by victory, catch the gale of praise. Sotheby. And Horace, in the conclusion of his first Ode, expresses himself in terms which indicate a similar purpose. Quad si me lyricis vatibis inseres, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.
Foreseeing delays, he had written privately to the Commandant at Dartmoor a Major Sotheby, with whom he had some slight acquaintance advising him of his efforts and requesting him to show the prisoner meanwhile all possible indulgence.
Sotheby was full of his translation of Homer's Iliad, some specimens of which he has already published. It is a complete failure; more literal than that of Pope, but still tainted with the deep radical vice of Pope's version, a thoroughly modern and artificial manner. It bears the same kind of relation to the Iliad that Robertson's narrative bears to the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis.
One of his friends in England was an amiable and pleasant man of letters, named William Sotheby, little heard of in these days; and even in his own days he had to endure the double degradation of being called a small poet by the small poets themselves.
He then diverged to Homer, whose Iliad he considered as a collection of poems by different authors, at different times during a century. There was, he said, the individuality of an age, but not of a country. Morritt, a zealous worshipper of the old bard, was incensed at a system which would turn him into a polytheist, gave battle with keenness, and was joined by Sotheby, our host. Mr.
The world's vast orb shall own thy genial power, Giver of fruits, fair sun, and favouring shower; Before thy altar grateful nations bow, And with maternal myrtle wreathe thy brow; O'er boundless ocean shall thy power prevail, Thee her sole lord the world of waters hail, Rule where the sea remotest Thule laves, While Tethys dowers thy bride with all her waves. Sotheby.
My name-son, a bright and blue-eyed rogue, with flaxen hair, screams and laughs like an April morning; and the baby is that species of dough which is called a fine baby. I care not for children till they care a little for me. April 11. Made calls, walked myself tired; saw Rogers, Sharp, Sotheby, and other old friends. April 12. Dinner at home; a little party of Sophia's in the evening.
With the following poetical translation of these verses, the writer has been favoured by Mr. Sotheby, the elegant translator of "Oberon." Scant battle-field of Chiefs, thro' earth renown'd, Opprest, I loftier tow'r; and, now, while Fate Dreads to destroy, in foreign soil I stand. Thrice chang'd the year, thrice have we chang'd the Foe.
In the last week of October, when brother and sister daily expected the cartel, arrived a report that the prisoner was in hospital with a sharp attack of pleurisy. Major Sotheby added a private note: "I feared yesterday that the exchange would come too late for him; but to-day the Medical Officer, who has just left me, speaks hopefully.
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