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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    “War, Sinews of.” See “Sinews of war.” “ War, war is still the cry, ‘war even to the knife! ’ ”—Byron, Childe Harold'sPilgrimage, canto i., stanza 86. The expression, “ war to the knife,” is said to have been uttered by General Palafox in reply to a summons to surrender Sara- gossa in 1808. “Warbler of poetic prose.” A descrip- tion applied to Sir Philip Sidney by William Cowper in his Task, book iv. (“Winter Even- ing”). “Warbles his native wood-notes wild.”—Milton, L'Allegro. The allusion is to Shakespeare. Warburton and a Warburtonian, Tracts by. Published by Samuel Parr (1747— 1825) in 1789. The tracts were early compositions by William Warburton, not admitted into the collected editions of his works; and the Warbur- tonian was Bishop Hurd, who had been as full of adulation for his brother bishop as he had been of recrimination for his opponents, and whom Parr bitterly attacked in the preface to the Tracts. See Disraeli’s Quarrels of Authors. Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew George, novelist and miscellaneous writer (b. 1810, d. 1852), wrote The Crescent and the Cross 1845); Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers 1849); Reginald Hastings (1850); Darien: or, the Merchant Prince (1851); and A Life of the Dari of Peterborough (1853). Warburton, William, Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698, d. 1779), published Miscellaneous Trans- lations, in Prose and Verse, from Roman Poets, Orators, and Historians (1714) ; A Critical and Philosophical Inquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, as related by Historians, §c. (1727); The Alliance between Church and State (1736), (q.v.); The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated (q.v.); A Vindication of Pope's Dssay on Man (1740); A Commentary on the same work (1742); Julian (1750) ; The Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion, occasionally opened and explained (1753—54) ; A View of Lord Rolingbroke’s Phi- losophy (1756); The Doctrine of Grace (1762); and some minor publications. His Works were edited by Bishop Hurd in 1788. His Literary Remains appeared in 1841, under the editorship of the Rev. F. Killigrew. His Letters to the Hon. Charles Yorke from 1752 to 1770 were privately printed in 1812. Dr. Parr edited in 1789 Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian (q.v.) [Bishop Hurd], and in 1808, Letters from a late eminent Prelate [Warburton] to one of his Friends [Bishop Hurd]. The Life of Bishop Warburton was pub- lished by the Rev. J. S. Watson in 1863. See also Bibliotheca Parnasia, and The Quarterly Review for June, 1812. See Prodigies and Miracles. Ward, Artemus. The literary pseudonym of Charles Farrer Browne, an American humorist (1832—1867), whose story is told in the preface to his Lecture at the Egyptian Hall, and in The Genial Showman, by E. P. Hingston. His Book of Goaks and Travels among the Mormons ap- peared in 1865, and Artemus Ward in Ijondon in 1867. Ward, Edward, poet (b. 1667, d. 1731), wrote a large number of Works, published in a collected form in 1717, of which the following are the most important:—The London Spy (1698 1700); Hudibras Redivivus (q.v.); Vulgus Bri- tannicus (1710); Nuptial Dialogues and Debates (1710); and The History, of the Grand Rebellion digested into Verse (1713). A list of Ward’s various writings is given in Lowndes’ Bibliographer's Manual. For Biography see Baker’s Biographia Dramatica and The Retrospective Review, vol. iii. Ward, Robert Plumer, novelist and mis- cellaneous writer (b. 1765, d. 1846), wrote An Inquiry into the Foundation and History of the Laws of Nations in Europe (1794); Tremaine : or, the Man of Refinement (1825); De Vere : or, the Man of Independence (1827); Illustrations of Life (1837); Pictures of the World (1838); The Revolution of 1688 (1838); De Clifford: or, the Constant Man (1841) ; and Chatsworth : or, the Romance of a Week (1844). His Memoirs, with selections from his diaries and letters, appeared in 1850. Ward, Thomas, Roman Catholic contro- versialist (b. 1652, d. 1708), wrote Errata of the Protestant Bible, and England's Reformation, a Hudibrastic poem. “ Warder of the brain, Memory, the.” —Macbeth, act i., scene 7. Wardlaw, Lady. See Halket, Elizabeth. Wardlaw, Ralph, D.D., Dissenting divine (b. 1779, d. 1853), wrote Sermons (1809); Discourse on the Principal Points of the Socinian Controversy (1814) ; ' TJnitarianism Incapable of Vindication (1816) ; Lectures on the Book of Ecclesiastes (1821) ; Essays on Pardon and Assurance (1831) ; On Faith and Atonement (1832); On the Sabbath (1832); Christian Ethics (1834); On National Church Estab- lishments (1839) ; Female Prostitution (1842) ; On the Atonement (1843); Life of Joseph (1845); Infant Baptism (1846); Congregational Independency (1848); On the Miracles (1853); Systematic Theo- logy, and lectures on various portions of Scripture (1860, 1861, and 1862). His Life was published by Dr. W. L. Alexander in 1856. tf; Wardle, Mr. A fat gentleman in Dickens’s novel of the Pickwick Papers (q.v.), who possesses two daughters, Emily and Isabella, and a maiden sister, of uncertain age, called Rachel. For their first appearance, see chapter iv. Waring. A poem by Robert Browning (b- 1812), of which the opening lines are;—