Dictionary of English literature, being a comprehensive guide to English authors and their works / [William Davenport Adams].

  • William Davenport Adams
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[1879?]
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    Iierocles, Iamblicus, Julian, Maximus Tyrius, ’ausanias, Plato, Plotinus, Porphyry, Sallust, and ■.ther classic authors. For Biography, see The Athenwum (1835), Knight’s Benny Cyclopaedia, darker’s Literary Anecdotes, and Bublic Characters 1798—9). Taylor, Tom, dramatist and miscellaneous vriter (b. 1817), is the author of Plot and Passion 1852); Biogenes and his Lantern (1849); The Vicar if Wakefield (1850); The Philosopher's Stone (1850); Prince Boras (1850); Sir Roger de Coverley (1851); Our Clerks (1852) ; Wittikind and his Brothers (1852); To Oblige Benson (1854); A Blighted Being (1854); Still Waters Run Beep (1855); Helping Hands (1855); Retribution (1856); Victims (1856); Going to the Bad (1858); Our American Cousin , (1858); Nine Points of the Late (1859); The House and the Home (1859); The Contested Election (1859); The Fool's Revenge (1859); A Tale of Two Cities (I860); The Overland Route (1860); The Babes in the Wood (1860); The Ticket-of-Lcave Man (1863); ’ ’Twixt Axe and Crown (1870); Joan of Arc (1870); ‘ Clancarty (1873) ; Anne Boleyn (1876); An Unequal Match, apd other plays; besides being the part author of New Men and Old Acres, Masks and Faces, Slave Life, and several other dramas. A volume of Historical Plays appeared in 1877- He ] has also published The Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Leicester Square, and Songs and Ballads of Brittany; has edited the Autobiographies of B. R. Haydon and C. R. Leslie. Since 1846 he has been a constant contributor to Punch, of which he be- came editor in 1874. Taylor, William, critic and translator (b. 1765, d. 1836), published English Synonyms Bis- xriminated (1813); an Historic Survey of German Poetry, interspersed with various translations (1828— 50) ; numerous contributions to The Monthly Review and Monthly Magazine ; and versions of Burger’s lenore, Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, Goethe’s Iphigenia, and Schiller’s Bride of Messina. His Memoirs, and Correspondence with Robert Southey, were published by Robberds in 1843. See The Edinburgh jRmewylxxxvii. Taylor’s Travels: “Three Weeks, Three Days, and Three Hours. Observations, from Lon- don to Hamburg, in Germany, amongst Jews and Gentiles; with descriptions of Towns and Towers, Castles and Citadels, Artificial Galloweses and Natural Hangmen; dedicated for the present to the absent Odcombian knight-errant, Sir Thomas Coriat, Great Britain’s Error and the World’s Mirror.” A work by John Taylor, the Water- Poet (q.v.); published in 1616. Tea Table Miscellany, The. A collec- tion of Scotch and English songs, published by Allan Ramsay in 1719, some of the contents being from his own pen. “ Tea, thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid.”—Cibber, The Lady's Last Stake, act i., sceno 1. Tea-Kettle, The Song of the. A poem by Ann Taylor (1782—1866):— “ Slow was the world my worth to glean. My visible secret long unseen 1 . . . At length the day in Its glory rose, And off on its spell—the engine goes 1 ” “ Teach me to feel another’s woe.” A line in stanza 10 of Pope’s Universal Prayer. “ Teach the young idea how to shoot, To.” Sec “Rear (To) the tender thought.” “ Team of little atomies, A.”—Romeo and Juliet, act i., scene 4. Tear, On a. Lines by Samuel Rogers (q.v.), beginning— “ O that the chemist’s magic art Could crystallise this sacred treasure 1 Long should it glitter near my heart, A secret source of pensive pleasure.” Tear-sheet, Doll. A courtesan who figures in the second part of Shakespeare’s King Henry TV. “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean.” Song by Alfred Tennyson, in The Princess (q.v.). “Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes. In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.” “ Tears, If you have, prepare to shed them now.”—Julius Caesar (q.v.), act iii., scene 2. Tears of Caledonia, The. A poem, in which Tobias George Smollett (1721—1771) expresses his indignation at the severities exercised upon the Highlanders by the Royal army, after the battle of Culloden, in 1745. It was published in the following year, and begins :— “Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn.” “Tears of joy.”—Congreve, The Mourning Bride, act i., scene 4. Tears of the Muses, The. A poem by Edmund Spenser, published in 1591. “Tears of the widower, when he sees.” First line of sect. xiii. of In Manor iam, by Alfred Tennyson. “ Tears of woe, The.”—Moore, The World is all a Fleeting Show. “ Tears such as angels weep.”—Paradise Lost, book i., line 619. “ Tears (The big round) Cours’d one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase.” —As You Like It, act ii., scene 1. Teazle, Lady. The heroine of Sheridan’s comedy of The School for Scandal (q.v.). Sec next paragraph, and Surface, Joseph. Teazle, Sir Peter. An uxorious character in Sheridan’s comedy of The School for Scandal (q.v.); husband to Lady Teazle (q.v.). Teignmouth, Lord (John Shore), states- man (b. 1751, d. 1834), published The Life, Writings, and Correspondence of Sir William Jones