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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District - -Author: Frederick Sessions - -Release Date: April 7, 2013 [EBook #42476] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITERARY CELEBRITIES *** - - - - -Produced by Eric Skeet, sp1nd and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42476 ***</div> <p> </p> <p class="figcenter"><img src="images/xfrontcover.jpg" alt="Front cover" /></p> @@ -597,7 +558,7 @@ Matthew Arnold</span></td> <blockquote><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 3.75mm;">'Oh! Mr. de Quinshy—sir, but you're a pleasant cretur—and were I ask't to gie a notion o' your mainners to them that had never seen you, I should just use twa words, Urbanity and Amenity.'—The -<span class="smcap">Ettrick Shepherd</span> in <i>Noctes Ambrosianæ</i>.</p></blockquote> +<span class="smcap">Ettrick Shepherd</span> in <i>Noctes Ambrosianæ</i>.</p></blockquote> <p><span class="firstletter">H</span>AD you been in Edinburgh on a certain day @@ -909,7 +870,7 @@ latter owed to 'Kit' his introduction to <i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>, of which he was then editor-in-chief. You will also remember—you, at any rate, who are familiar with the charming 'Noctes -Ambrosianæ' (though, I fear, you are in a sad +Ambrosianæ' (though, I fear, you are in a sad minority in these days of scrappy periodicals and flimsy popular fiction)—but you of the elect few will remember the genial fun which Wilson pokes at @@ -957,7 +918,7 @@ we find a lavish display of learning. You see it bursting out, whether he will or no; never dragged in as by cart-ropes; and his allusions, glancing in all directions, show even more than his direct -quotations that his learning is encyclopædic. His +quotations that his learning is encyclopædic. His book of reference is the brain. Nor must we forget his style. It is massive, masculine, and energetic; ponderous in its construction, slow in its motion, @@ -1217,7 +1178,7 @@ own boyhood. I took it to Norway with me in later days, and found it in every way a most accurate description of Scandinavian farm life, as well as of coast and mountain scenery—in fact, quite as -much so as the stories of Björnstjerne Björnson +much so as the stories of Björnstjerne Björnson himself. The extraordinary thing about this is that the authoress had never been in Norway, and took all the settings of her hero's adventures from @@ -1777,7 +1738,7 @@ nature, deeply committed to European republicanism and its leaders, such as Mazzini, the inspired conspirator, who loved God as he loved <span class="pagenum"><a name="pg39" id="pg39">[39]</a></span> -liberty and Italian unity; such as the Abbé Lamennais, +liberty and Italian unity; such as the Abbé Lamennais, that noble French soul athirst for love, who shook off the Papacy and the priesthood, and died, 'believing in God, loving the people'; such as the @@ -2820,7 +2781,7 @@ bought from W. J. Linton, the engraver-poet, that <span class="pagenum"><a name="pg70" id="pg70">[70]</a></span> Coniston cottage, as it then was, so closely associated with his name for some thirty years thereafter. -He gave £1,500 for the property, without +He gave £1,500 for the property, without seeing it, while lying ill at Matlock. To everybody who knows English literature Brantwood is a household name. On the steep slope of the eastern @@ -2860,11 +2821,11 @@ books by Mr. George Allen, formerly a scholar of his at the Working Man's College, and now become manager of his publishing business (which, by-the-by, Mr. Allen managed so well as to bring Mr. -Ruskin in some £4,000 a year at a time it was greatly +Ruskin in some £4,000 a year at a time it was greatly needed). During the intervals of his professorial duties, and especially after ill-health compelled their relinquishment, he wrote those invaluable autobiographic -reminiscences contained in 'Præterita' and +reminiscences contained in 'Præterita' and 'Fors Clavigera'—books the world will never spare, albeit they are so full of petulant denunciations, and quaint extravagances, and inconsequent satires. @@ -2904,7 +2865,7 @@ those of destruction.' He had married unsuitably to satisfy his parents, and the marriage had been nullified. Thrice he was passionately in love, and each disappointment left him sick and despondent, -however tenderly remembered and naïvely talked +however tenderly remembered and naïvely talked of in old age. His generous money gifts to relatives, and to causes like the Guild of St. George, which lay deep in his affections, as well as, doubtless, some @@ -3098,7 +3059,7 @@ involves 'chastisement of the passions, discipline of the intellect, subjection of the will.'</p> <p>It is in his 'Seven Lamps of Architecture' that -the pæan on Giotto's Campanile occurs, wherein he +the pæan on Giotto's Campanile occurs, wherein he tells us how, as a boy, he despised it, and how since then he lived beside it many a day and looked upon it from his window 'by sunlight and moonlight, @@ -3362,8 +3323,8 @@ with 'an eye, a brow, and a forehead indicative of commanding genius.' The last soon applied on behalf of the fraternity for a loan, not to pay for the emigrants' sea passage, but their lodgings bill! -The good man lent £5, and afterwards advanced -Coleridge £30, taking the value back in MSS. as he +The good man lent £5, and afterwards advanced +Coleridge £30, taking the value back in MSS. as he could secure them. Meanwhile, Coleridge lectured to small audiences on somewhat abstruse subjects for a Bristol population, and managed to fall in @@ -3401,7 +3362,7 @@ a Latin quotation scribbled on a whitewashed wall discovered him, and led to his discharge, a visit to Oxford and an introduction to Lovell and Southey, then students, made him a more decided Pantisocratist, -then a Bristolian, a protégé of Cottle and +then a Bristolian, a protégé of Cottle and Charles Lloyd, and a benedict. In 1795 he was married at St. Mary de Redcliffe Church, and the thriftless pair set up housekeeping forthwith in a @@ -4027,7 +3988,7 @@ English institution, flogging in the great public schools, rejected his application. Balliol received him. Here he made some lifelong and most valuable friendships, one bringing him a future pension -of £160 a year to aid him in his devotion to literature, +of £160 a year to aid him in his devotion to literature, an allowance continued, with unusual generosity, till he had made his mark, and Government had remunerated him for his eminent services. He @@ -4144,7 +4105,7 @@ retirement at Keswick. He carried on also a very large private correspondence. His 'selected' letters alone fill four volumes. He befriended Kirke White, the poet, with wise counsel and friendly -sympathies, and Charlotte Brontë, and not a few +sympathies, and Charlotte Brontë, and not a few now quite unknown poets, struggling to make names for themselves among the stars of English poesie. <span class="pagenum"><a name="pg109" id="pg109">[109]</a></span> @@ -4239,7 +4200,7 @@ a flow of soul' to the reader.</p> <p class="center" style="font-size: smaller;">B.1770. D.1853.</p> <p class="center" style="font-size: smaller;">Friend and Patron of Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth, and their first Publisher (see pp. <a href="#publisher">85, 87, 106</a>).</p> -<p class="center" style="font-size: smaller;">Portrait (æt. 50) by Branwhite, also of Bristol.</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size: smaller;">Portrait (æt. 50) by Branwhite, also of Bristol.</p> <p class="center" style="font-size: smaller;"><a href="images/x137.jpg">Enlarge image</a></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> @@ -4725,7 +4686,7 @@ spoken of as faithful to the original and full of the truest poetic insight. In the judgment of competent critics his translations were better than his own compositions, even of those of his later years, -such as his 'Nugæ Canoræ,' published about the +such as his 'Nugæ Canoræ,' published about the same time as Professor Wilson's 'Isle of Palms,' of which, by-the-by he received a presentation copy as a token of regard from the author, with whom @@ -4869,7 +4830,7 @@ of Christopher North.</i></p></blockquote> <p><span class="firstletter">I</span>N the days of my youth—say half a century ago—with extraordinary avidity my reading contemporaries -devoured the 'Noctes Ambrosianæ' +devoured the 'Noctes Ambrosianæ' of 'Christopher North,' mastering the barbaric Scotch dialect of Galloway, in which the Ettrick Shepherd is made to speak, for the delightsomeness @@ -4899,7 +4860,7 @@ their fathers.</p> <p>Wilson came into the Lake Country in 1807 from Paisley, where he was born twenty-two years previously. He had recently buried his father, from -whom he had inherited some £40,000. The property +whom he had inherited some £40,000. The property he purchased, and retained in his possession till his decease in 1854, was a small farmhouse and its lands, known as Elleray. It is situated on the slopes of @@ -5292,7 +5253,7 @@ to settle the United States dispute with this nation as to the proper line of their North-West boundary. He acquitted himself so ably in his Government work that he was offered the post of an Under-Secretary -of State at a salary of £2,000 a year. +of State at a salary of £2,000 a year. This he refused in order to give himself entirely to literature. Mr. Gladstone entertained the highest opinion of his abilities and integrity, and greatly @@ -5474,7 +5435,7 @@ to a degree he learned to be grateful for. Some travels abroad, too, though at a later period—notably to Italy—matured his character and widened his outlook. His first literary efforts were articles -which were accepted by the <i>Athenæum</i>, then just +which were accepted by the <i>Athenæum</i>, then just started. In that paper, and in <i>Blackwood</i> (is it not singular that most of our Lake celebrities were contributors to 'Old Ebony'?) he had frequent @@ -5654,7 +5615,7 @@ has included them in His great and universal atonement. It may be that the Holy Spirit, who shows the things of Christ to men, gives them a saving view of Calvary as they pass through the -Valley of the Shadow. I cannot believe that any <i>bonâ +Valley of the Shadow. I cannot believe that any <i>bonâ <span class="pagenum"><a name="pg155" id="pg155">[155]</a></span> fide</i> seeker after God ever became a 'lost soul' in any sense of those awful words, even though his seeking @@ -5891,7 +5852,7 @@ school education, and Cambridge was his Alma Mater. His classical knowledge and his memory were especially good. He could recite the whole of 'Virgil,' and had a love, spoken of as 'enthusiastic,' -for Pindar, Æschylus, and Homer. His culture +for Pindar, Æschylus, and Homer. His culture was widened by a trip to the East, and another to America. Somewhat of an athlete and a good swimmer, he once swam across the Niagara River @@ -6243,7 +6204,7 @@ Papal hierarchy, enabling it to shadow his steps and 'create an atmosphere' around him wherever he went. This time he carried letters of introduction from the astute Dr. Wiseman, which assured his -seeing the æsthetic best of all the great cathedrals +seeing the æsthetic best of all the great cathedrals and institutions of the Church, in each country he traversed, and helped him to shut the eyes of his memory to Inquisitions, and persecutions, and the @@ -7620,7 +7581,7 @@ the fell-side farmers and their hounds; he has some pithy tales of the native peasantry and their folklore and their customs, as well as of their parsons, poor as Goldsmith's 'Christian Hero'—passing -rich at £40 a year, yet learned and of cultured +rich at £40 a year, yet learned and of cultured minds, though dressed in homespun, and toiling on the land to eke out a living. His own adventures as a medical man in mists and storms sweeping @@ -8100,7 +8061,7 @@ seem very explicit:</p> It lies in you, dear townsmen, to reforme.' </p> -<p>Anthony a'Wood, in his 'Athenæ Oxoniensis,' tells +<p>Anthony a'Wood, in his 'Athenæ Oxoniensis,' tells how Braithwaite—or, as he spells the name, Brathwayte—was sent to the University at sixteen years of age in 1604. He remained there three years, @@ -8172,7 +8133,7 @@ bestowed upon him the nickname of 'Dapper Dick.'</p> soubriquet—that of 'Drunken Barnaby.' This is because he is—and rightly so, without doubt—credited with the authorship of a notorious book -called by him originally 'Barnabæ Itinerarium, or +called by him originally 'Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal.' It was done in Latin and English on opposite pages, to 'most apt numbers reduced, and to the old tune of Barnabe commonly @@ -8205,7 +8166,7 @@ when more than a quarter of a century after his death it was invented for trade purposes, was supposed to belong, not to Braithwaite at all, but to a certain 'Barnaby Harrington,' a supposed Yorkshire -schoolmaster and horse-dealer. 'Barnabæ +schoolmaster and horse-dealer. 'Barnabæ Itinerarium' has little merit as poetry. It is mainly of interest to moderns for the light it throws—like the water-poet, Taylor's, 'Penniless Pilgrimage,' @@ -8338,7 +8299,7 @@ literature. Some are reprinted, others are scarce. The first edition of 'Barnaby' is almost unobtainable, and that of 'A Survey of History,' a quarto volume with portrait, has just been offered me -for £2.</p> +for £2.</p> <p class="pagenum"><a name="pg231" id="pg231">[231]</a></p> @@ -8356,7 +8317,7 @@ Near the bay-window is the little old doorway, to which two rude stone steps led up. All else was plain and unpretending. Inside I was shown the "hall," a quaint, flagged apartment, on the ground-floor, with a great, old-fashioned -fireplace, and with a kind of stone daïs in the +fireplace, and with a kind of stone daïs in the recess of the mullioned window. Here I was told the earliest meetings of the "Friends" were held. From this room, two steps led up to a little sanctuary, which was @@ -8422,7 +8383,7 @@ he and John Bright were trained. Near there, too, for a time, Felicia Hemans found a peaceful home, after her many trials, in a cottage still marked on the map as 'Dove's Nest,' a lovely retreat for a -poetess, in good sooth. The archæologist Nicholson, +poetess, in good sooth. The archæologist Nicholson, poor in this world's gear, but rich in ancient lore, helps to complete the galaxy of 'bright particular stars' that clustered about the water-head of @@ -8453,7 +8414,7 @@ village of Troutbeck, just beneath yonder huge mountain-dome, whereon the Baal-fires used to be lighted every midsummer eve, was the ancestral home of the Hogarths; and in that valley Charlotte -Brontë pondered some of her best works, and +Brontë pondered some of her best works, and sketched her backgrounds from the moorland heights. Not all her scenery is Yorkshire, whatever Yorkshire folk may imagine.</p> @@ -8589,389 +8550,6 @@ have been corrected.</p> <p>(2) Amendments required in the lists of "Contents" and "Illustrations" have been correlated to the revised pagination.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Literary Celebrities of the English -Lake-District, by Frederick Sessions - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITERARY CELEBRITIES *** - -***** This file should be named 42476-h.htm or 42476-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/4/7/42476/ - -Produced by Eric Skeet, sp1nd and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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