Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 6, 2025
The first letter is without date; but the reference to the publication of his "Miscellanies" fixes it as of 1770, and at London. "My dear Doctor, I reproach myself; but it is as insignificant as embarrassing to explain some things; so much for that. As to my confidence in your stamina, I can see no reason to flinch from it; but I wish you would avoid all unwholesome accidents as much as possible.
Cases are given, with extracts from documents, in a book so familiar to Sir Walter as Aubrey's Miscellanies. He published 'A full and true Relation of the Examination and Confession of William Barwick, and Edward Mangall, of two horrid murders'. Barwick killed his wife, who was about to bear a child, near Cawood in Yorkshire, on April 14, 1690.
One of them is erroneously stated, in the notes to the Memoires de Grammont, and Davies' Dramatic Miscellanies, to have become Lord Oxford's mistress; for Mr. Pepys uniformly calls the Marshalls by their proper name, and only speaks of the other lady as "the first or old Roxalana, who had quitted the stage."
In the introduction to the Miscellanies, he refers to "a slight Pique" with Wilks; and it is not impossible that the key to the difference may be found in the following passage: "Sparkish. What dost think of the Play? Marplay. It may be a very good one, for ought I know; but I know the Author has no Interest. Spark. Give me Interest, and rat the Play. Mar.
Simultaneously with this, his regular connection with journalism appears to have ceased, although from his statement in the Preface to the Miscellanies, that "as long as from June 1741," he had "desisted from writing one Syllable in the Champion, or any other public Paper," it may perhaps be inferred that up to that date he continued to contribute now and then.
In the 17th century a few of the English popular ballads were collected in miscellanies called Garlands. But no large and important collection was put forth until Percy's Reliques , a book which had a powerful influence upon Wordsworth and Walter Scott.
Yet, until late in life, his annual income from literature was not more than £400. In 1838 appeared "Sartor Resartus" in book form, and the first edition of his "Miscellanies."
Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of "The Minute-Man" at Concord. Publication of Collected Poems Last Literary Labors. Addresses and Essays. "Lectures and Biographical Sketches." "Miscellanies" Emerson's Poems Recollections of Emerson's Last Years. Mr. Conway's Visits. Extracts from Mr. Whitman's Journal. Dr. Le Baron Russell's Visit. Dr. Edward Emerson's Account. Illness and Death.
In the "Harleian Miscellanies" is a copy of a paper humbly offered to the Royal Society by John Reynolds, containing a discourse upon prodigious abstinence, occasioned by the twelve months' fasting of a woman named Martha Taylor, a damsel of Derbyshire. Plot gives a great variety of curious anecdotes of prolonged abstinence.
Oliver remarks that they are not mentioned in any of the early Constitutions of Masonry, nor even so late as 1797, when Stephen Jones wrote his "Masonic Miscellanies," and he thinks it "satisfactorily proved that Deacons were not considered necessary, in working the business of a lodge, before the very latter end of the eighteenth century."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking