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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    TUB [ 630 ] THY Three Warnings, The. A moral poem by Mrs. Piozzi (1740—1821), beginning— “ The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; ’Twas therefore said by ancient sages That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, ■When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages. The greatest love of life appears.” Threnodia Augustalis: “ Sacred to the Memory of her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales” (1772). “This,” as the author, Goldsmith, himself says, “ may more pro- perly be termed a compilation than a poem. It was prepared for the composer in little more than two days, and may therefore be considered as rather an industrious effort of gratitude than of genius.” “ Thrice he threw the slain.”—Dryden, Alexander's Feast, line 68. “ Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.”—2 King Henry VI., act iii., scene 2. Thrissil and the Rose, The. A poem by William Dunbar, composed on the occasion of the marriage of James IV. of Scotland with Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII. The poet is sup- posed to have a dream, in which he is addressed by May, and desired to celebrate in a poem the return of‘Spring. He is then introduced into a delicious garden, where Nature, having summoned all created beings to appear before her, crowns the lion, the eagle, and the thistle, as the kings of beasts, and birds, and plants, accompanying the action with many moral and political maxims. To the pro- tection of the thistle (James IV.) she particularly consigns the rose (Queen Margaret), whom she also crowns, with a crown so brilliant that it illumes all the land; and the song of joy that breaks forth from the birds effectually and effectively concludes the poet’s vision. “ Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.” Line 601, book v., of Faradise Lost (q.v.). “ Through thick and thin.”—Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book i., canto i., stanza 17. In the same passage occurs the equally familiar ex- pression, “ by hook or crook.” Thucydides. The Works of this Greek historian were translated into English by Thomas Hobbes in 1629, and were edited by Dr. Thomas Arnold in 1830—35. Thumb, Tom. See Tom Thumb. Thunder and Small Beer, Essay on. See Kickleburys on the Rhine, The. “ Thunder (In), lightning, or in rain.” —Macbeth, act i., scene 1. Thunderer, The. A name bestowed upon The Times (q.v.) in allusion to the vigorous articles contributed to it at one time by Edward Sterling (q.v.), who possessed a literary style of consider- able power. Thundertentronckh, Arminius von. The nom de plume under which Matthew Arnold (b. 1822) contributed several papers, of a satirical character, to the pages of The Fall Mall Gazette. These, with one or two others originally published in The Cornhill Magazine, were republished in the volume entitled Friendship's Garland, which the writer pretended to have woven as a memorial of his dead friend, Arminius, the young Prussian officer. Thurio, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (q.v.), is a rival of Valentine in the love of Silvia (q.v.). Thurloe, John (b. 1616, d. 1668), statesman, collected a series of State Papers relating to the affairs of the Protectorate, which, after his death, were found in a false ceiling in Lincoln’s Inn. They afterwards came into the hands of Sir Joseph Jekyll and Lord Chancellor Somers, and from them devolved upon a bookseller, who entrusted their publication to Birch in 1742. They were accom- panied by a life of Thurloe. Warburton writes of them as “letting you thoroughly into the genius” of the times and persons to whom they refer. Thurlow, Edward, Lord, Lord Chancellor and poet (b. 1732, d. 1806), published Poems on Several Occasions (1813), Carmen Pritannicum (1814), and Select Poems (1821). Seethe article by Thomas Moore, the poet, in The Edinburgh Preview, vol. xxxi. Thurston, Henry T. The nom de plume under which Francis Turner Palgrave (q.v.) published The Passionate Pilgrim: or, Eros and Anteros (1858). Thwackum. A character in Fielding’s novel of Tom Jones (q.v.). “ Thy voice is heard thro’ rolling drums.” First line of a song by Alfred Tennyson in The Princess. Thyestes. A play adapted from the Greek of Seneca, by Jasper Heywood, and published in 1560. A tragedy called Thyestes was written by John Crowne (q.v.). Thyrsis. An elegiac poem by Matthew Arnold (b. 1822), described as “a monody, to commemorate the author’s friend, Arthur Hugh Clough, who died at Florence, 1861.” “ He went: liis piping took a troubled sound Of storms that rage outside our liappy ground; He could not wait their passing; he is dead I Thyrsis is the name of a herdsman mentioned in the poems of Theocritus, as well as of a shepherd in Virgil’s seventh Eclogue. Hence the name came to figure frequently in pastoral poetry. Thyrza, To. An elegiac poem by Lord Byron, written in 1811.