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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    Wood, Anthony a, antiquarian and historiographer (b. 1632, d. 1695), published Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis <1674); Athena Oxonienses (1691—2); Fasti: or, Annals of the said University; and A Vindication of the Historiographer of the University of Oxford and his Works from the reproaches of the Bishop of Salisbury [Burnet]. The last-named work ap- peared in 1693. A Life of Wood appeared in 1711, and was followed by another in 1772. See also that by Rawiinson (1811). See Athene Oxoni- enses. Wood, John George, clergyman (b. 1827), has written Sketches and Anecdotes of Animal Life, My Feathered Friends, Common Objects of the Sea Shore, Common Objects of the Country, Our Garden Friends and Foes, Homes without Hands, Bible Animals, Insects at Home, Man and Beast Here and Hereafter, Insects Abroad, A Natural History, Nature's Teachings, and many other works. Wood, Mrs. Henry (nee Miss Ellen Price), novelist (b. about 1820), has written Danesbury House (1860); Fast Lynne (1861); The Channings (1862); Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles (1862); The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863) ; Vomer's Pride (1863) ; Lord Oakburn’s Daughters (1864) ; Oswald Cray (1864); Trevlyn Hold (1864); Mildred Arkell (1865); Elster's Folly (1866); St. Martin's Fve (1866); A Life's Secret (1867); Anne Hereford (1868); Poland Yorke (1869); George Canterbury's Will (1870) ; Bessy Pane (1870) ; Dene Hollow (1871); Within the Maze (1872) ; The Master of Greylands (1873); Told in the Twilight (1875); Edina (1876); Adam Grainger (1876); and other works. Woodes, Nathaniel. See Conflict of Conscience, The. Woodfall, William, journalist (b. about 1745, d. 1803), started The Morning Chronicle in 1769 and The Diary in 1789. He was famous as a reporter, at a time when reporting, as now under- stood, was entirely unknown. He took no notes, trusting wholly to his memory; whence his nick- name, “ Memory ” Woodfall. “Woodman, spare that tree!” First line of a song by George P. Morris (1802—1864), which continues— *' Touch not a single bough I In youth It sheltered me. And I'll protect It now.” “ Wood-notes wild.” See “Native wood- notes wild.” “ Woods decay (The), the woods decay and fall.”—Tithonus, by Alfred Tennyson. “Woods (Fresh) and pastures new.” See “ Fresh Woods,” &c. Woodstock. A novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1826. Woodvill, John. A tragedy by Charles Lamb (1775—1834), published in 1801. Woodville, Anthony. See Rivers, Earl. Woolner, Thomas, sculptor and poet (b. 1825), has written My Beautiful Lady (1863), (q.v.). Woolsey, The Negotiations of Thomas. A life of “ the great Cardinal of England,” by George Cavendish (b. 1550); published after the writer’s death, in 1641, and reprinted in the fifth volume of the Harleian Miscellany, in Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography in 1810; also, with notes and other illustrations, by S. W. Singer, in 1825. It includes a parallel between Wolsey and Laud. See The Retrospective Review, vol. v. Woolston, Thomas, sceptical theologian (b. 1669, d. 1733), was the author of The Old Apology for the Truth of the Christian Religion against the Jews and Gentiles Revived (1705) ; Free Gifts to the Clergy (1723—4); Six Discourses:on the Miracles of Christ (1727—30); and many other works of a similar character, all of which are now deservedly forgotten. Worboise, Emma Jane, novelist and writer for the young (b. 1825), has published Helen Bury, Lights and Shades of Christian Life, Seed Time and Harvest, Thornycroft Hall, Sir Julian's Wife, Violet Vaughan, Grey and Goldv The House of Bondage, and many other works. Word to the Public, A. See Lucretia. “Words are wise men’s counters.”— Hobbes, Leviathan, part i., canto 4. “ Words are women, deeds are men.” —Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. “Words came first, or, after, blows.” —Lloyd, Speech of Courtney. “Words of learned length and thun- dering sound.”—Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, line 213. “Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.”—Pope, Imitations of Horace, book ii., epistle ii., line 163. • “Words (The) of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.”—Love's Labour's Lost, act v., scene 2. “Words, words, words.”—Hamlet, act ii., scene 2. Wordsworth, Charles, D.D., Bishop of St. Andrews (b. 1806), has written Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible (1854); The Out- lines of the Christian Ministry Delineated and Brought to the Test of Reason, Holy Scripture, History, and Experience (1872); Catcchcsis: or, Christian Instruction ; A Greek Primer; and nu- merous sermons, pamphlets, and charges. Wordsworth, Christopher. D.D., Bishop of Lincoln (b. 1807), has published, among other works, Memoirs of William Wordsworth; Thco- philus Anglicus; an edition of the Greek Testa- ment, with notes; an edition of tho Old Testament