RUB OR RUST. Idler, why lie down to die? Hark! the lark sings in the sky, In the grave there's sleep enough,— Death, perhaps, is hunger-proof, Men are mowing, breezes blowing, He who will not work shall want; Bees are flying, sloth is dying, SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF AUTHORS Who Died in the Fifth Decade of the Nineteenth Century; OR FROM 1840 TO 1849 INCLUSIVE. Abercrombie, John (1781-1844), of Aberdeen, an eminent Edinburgh physician. The Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth, directed chiefly against Materialism; a popular metaphysical work, used as a textbook in many schools: The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings. Banim, John (1800–1842), of Kilkenny, author of Tales of the O'Hara Family, showing great knowledge of Irish character, habits, customs, and feeling. Barham, Richard Harris (1788-1845), an Episcopal clergyman, a minor canon of St. Paul's. My Cousin Nicholas, a novel. He is best known, however, by a series of humorous stories, in prose and verse, first published in Bentley's Miscellany, 1837, under the name of "Thomas Ingoldsby," and now known as The Ingoldsby Legends, which were very popular in their day. It does not appear that his wit and humor interfered with his duties as a clergyman; and certain it is that in none of his writings, however humorous, can be detected an impure or a malig nant allusion. Beckford, William (1759-1844), only son of a London millionaire. Vathek, an Arabian Tale; Modern Novel- Writing, &c. Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–1849), son of the eminent physician Dr. Thomas Beddoes. The Bride's Tragedy, and Death's Jest-Book, or The Fool's Tragedy. Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of (1780-1849), of Ireland. Her maiden name was Power: she early married a Captain Farmer, who soon died; and then she was united to an Irish peer, Charles Gardiner, Earl of Blessington. For many years she was famed for her beauty and accomplishments. Conversations with Lord Byron, two volumes; The Idler in Italy, three volumes; The Idler in France, two volumes; The Confessions of an Elderly Lady, &c. &c. Burnes, Alexander (1805-1841), traveller and Oriental scholar. Travels in Bokhara; a valuable work. Was treacherously murdered in Cabul. Burney, Frances,-Madame D'Arblay (1752-1840),-novelist, was the daughter of Dr. Burney, the author of the History of Music. In early life she published Evelina, and soon after Cecilia, novels, which gave her a high reputation. She was married to Count D'Arblay, a French refugee. Two years after her death appeared her Diary and Letters, edited by her niece, in five volumes. Butler, William Archer (1814-1848), of Ireland; religious and philosophical writer; Professor of Moral Philosophy in Trinity College, Dublin. Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, remarkable for their learning, eloquence, and depth of judgment. Cary, Henry Francis (1772-1844), translator of the Divina Commedia of Dante; of the Birds of Aristophanes; and of the Odes of Pindar: all of which are well executed. Coleridge, Henry Nelson (1800-1843), was the author of The Literary Remains of his Uncle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; of a lively narrative, Six Months in the West Indies; and of the valuable and instructive book, Introduction to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets. At the end of the Introduction to this work is the following beautiful tribute to THE VALUE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES. These inestimable advantages, which no modern skill can wholly counterpoise, are known and felt by the scholar alone. He has not failed, in the sweet and silent studies of his youth, to drink deep at those sacred fountains of all that is just and beautiful in human language. The thoughts and the words of the master-spirits of Greece and of Rome are inseparably blended in his memory; a sense of their marvellous harmonies, their exquisite fitness, their consummate polish, has sunken forever in his heart, and thence throws out light and fragrancy upon the gloom and the annoyances of his maturer years. No avocations of professional labor will make him abandon their wholesome study; in the midst of a thousand cares, he will find an hour to recur to his boyish lessons,to reperuse them in the pleasurable consciousness of old associations, and in the clearness of manly judgment, and to apply them to himself and to the world with superior profit. The more extended his sphere of learning in the literature of modern Europe, the more deeply, though the more wisely, will he reverence that of classical antiquity; and in declining age, when the appetite for magazines and reviews, and the tentimes repeated trash of the day, has failed, he will retire, as it were, within a circle of schoolfellow friends, and end his secular studies, as he began them, with his Homer, his Horace, and his Shakspeare. Darley, George (1800-1846). Sylvia, or the May Queen; Errors of Extasie and other poems. Was one of the writers in the Athenæum. Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848), son of an Italian Jew, and father of Rt. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P. Curiosities of Literature, two volumes; Quarrels of Authors, three volumes; Calamities of Authors, two volumes; Amenities of Literature, consisting of sketches and characters of English literature. All these works are the result of extensive reading, and contain a vast amount of curious, interesting, and valuable information. D'Oyly, George (1778–1846), a clergyman. In conjunction with Rev. Richard Mant, he prepared an Annotated edition of the Bible. Franklin, John (1786-1847 probably), the renowned traveller, who perished in the Arctic regions about 1847; for the time and place and manner of his death are unknown. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Seas, 1819-22; Narrative of a Second Expedition, &c., 1825–27. Frere, J. Hookham (1769-1846), diplomatist and poet, and one of the founders of the Quarterly Review; Minister in Spain during the Peninsular War, and for many years a resident of Malta, where he died. Works a humorous poem, alternately comic and serious, entitled Most Interesting Particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table; Psalms in Verse. He also translated Theognis with great fidelity and elegance; The Clouds, The Acharnians, The Knights, and The Birds of Aristophanes.i Griffin, Gerald (1803-1849), of Limerick, Ireland, a journalist and a writer of fiction. The Munster Tales; The Collegians; The Rivals, &c. Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847), a minister of the "Society of Friends," is known more as a philanthropist than as an author: still, he published some works of great value. Letters addressed to Henry Clay, on the happy effects of emancipation in the West Indies; Essays on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Practical Operations of Christianity; Thoughts on Habit and Discipline; On the Observance of the Sabbath; The Accordance of Geology with Natural and Revealed Religion; Right Application of Knowledge, &c. &c. His whole life was one of most active benevolence and beneficence in every good cause; and it is astonishing how much he accomplished. Hall, Basil (1788-1844), traveller. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea; Travels in North America, 1827 and 1828, and Extracts from a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico. Herbert, Hon. and Rev. William (1778-1847), poet and translator. Helga, a poem founded on Scandinavian history; translations from the Norse, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese; Attila, an epic poem upon the establishment of Christianity by the overthrow of the Gothic king. Holland, Lord (1773-1840). Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega.3 1 See specimens in the Compendium of Ciassical Literature. 2" Every day was well packed up; and hours and seasons were set apart for leisure and relaxation, as well as for employment and labor. By these means he could attend at the bank, speak at a public meeting, write an essay, and take a long and laborious journey; and he could also be the companion of his beloved family, walk in his fragrant gardens, admire with intelligent taste the varieties of nature, or go to describe to the children in a school the wonderful structure of the human eye. While he thus performed the labors of life, he enjoyed its comforts; what was great was well attended to, what was small was not neglected: he seemed to have time and place for every thing, except idleness; he was most thoroughly a man, as well as a Christian, and could consistently say, with the apostle, 'The life I live in the flesh is by the faith of the Son of God."" -Gentleman's Magazine. 8 De Vega was the celebrated Spanish drama. tist, who com, osed with so much rapidity that he produced inre than two thousand dramas. Hook, Theodore Edward (1788-1842), London, dramatist, novelist, and journalist. He had wonderful power of improvisatising, or extemporaneous composition of songs and music. Sayings and Doings, three series, 9 vols.; Gilbert Gurney; Jack Bray; Maxwell; Love and Pride, &c.; and numerous musical operas. He produced in all about forty volumes; but they have little enduring value. Ireland, John (1761-1842), a divine, a writer in the early volumes of the Quarterly Review, and author of the learned work, Paganism and Christianity Compared,- -an eloquent exposition of the sufferings of the early Christians. Knight, Henry Gally (1787-1846), author of several Eastern tales, in verse. Ilderim, a Syrian Tale, 1816; Phrosyne, a Grecian Tale; and Alashtar, an Arabian Tale, 1817. They excited little attention, and the author turned his attention to medieval architecture. Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century. Lister, T. H. ( -1842), novelist and biographer. Novels,-Granby, Herbert Lacy, and Arlington; also, Memoir of the Life and Administration of the Earl of Clarendon, 3 vols. Maginn, William (1794-1842), of Cork, a distinguished periodical writer, contributing chiefly to Blackwood and Fraser. His best articles were a series of admirable Shakspeare Papers, and a series of Homeric Ballads. For specimens of the latter, see Classical Literature, under "Homer." Mant, Rev. Richard (1776-1848), was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1815, rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopgate; in 1820, Bishop of Killaloe; and, in 1823, translated to the See of Down, Connor, and Dromore, which he held till his death. His prose works are mostly sermons; his poetical,-Miscellaneous Poems, The Slave, and other Poetical Pieces, the British Months, and some sweet Sacred Lyrics. In conjunction with Rev. George D'Oyly, rector of Lambeth, he prepared an edition of the Bible, with a selection of notes from the best commentators of the Church of England. Marryat, Frederick (1792-1848), Captain of the Royal Navy, and celebrated painter of English sailor-life. Frank Mildmay, 1829; Newton Forster, 1832; Peter Simple, 1833; Jacob Faithful, 1835; Midshipman Easy, 1836, &c. &c. Mitchell, Thomas (1783-1845), a distinguished classical critic. Editions of Aristophanes and Sophocles. His Preliminary Discourse to the Comedies of Aristophanes is one of the choicest pieces of literary criticism in our language. The characters of Socrates and Plato have nowhere been more eloquently and truthfully drawn.1 Morier, James (1780-1849), Secretary of Embassy in Egypt. Journey through Persia in 1808 and 1809. A Second Journey through Persia, between 1810–16. "Morier's Journeys are justly regarded as works of authority on the civil, political, domestic, and commercial circumstances of the Persians."-LOWNDES. Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, three volumes; Zohrab the Hostage, 1832; Mirza, 1841. All these novels pertain to the manners of the East. Mudie, Robert (1777-1842), a voluminous writer; wrote and compiled about ninety volumes. A Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature, two series of four volumes each, entitled The Heavens, the Earth, the Sea, and the Air, and Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter; The Feathered Tribes of Great Britain; Babylon the Great,-a Picture of Men and Things in Lon 1 For extracts from this "Discourse," see the Compendium of Classical Literature. don; The British Naturalist; Man,-Physical, Moral, Social, and Intellectual, &c. Porter, Sir Robert Ker (1775-1842), a painter and traveller, in which latter character he will be especially remembered; for no more interesting work of the kind can be found than his Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c., 1817-20. Prichard, James Cowles (1786-1848), a distinguished ethnologist and physician. Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, 1813; The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations, 1831; The Natural History of Man, 1843. He may be said to have been the first who raised ethnology to the rank of a science. Reynolds, Frederick (1765-1841), dramatic writer; author of about one hundred pieces, the best of which are The Dramatist; Laugh when You Can; The Delinquent; How to Grow Rich; Management, &c. Rose, William Stewart (1775-1843), translator of the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, and author of a volume of poems entitled The Crusade of St. Louis. Stirling, John (1806-1844), conductor of the Athenæum; Poems; Essays in the Athenaeum and Blackwood; Strafford, a tragedy. Tennant, William (1785-1848), Scotch poet, and Professor of Oriental Languages at St. Andrew's. Anster Fair, a mock-heroic poem on the marriage of Maggie Lauder, the famous heroine of Scottish song; Thane of Fife; Dinging Down of the Cathedral. Tonna, Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth1 (1790-1846), is the author of a great number of excellent prose works, and of some sweet religious poetry. Of the former are-The Flower-Garden; The Wrongs of Women; Falsehood and Truth; Judæa Capta; Tales and Illustrations, three volumes, &c. Her longest poem is Osric, a Missionary Tale. She edited The Christian Ladies' Magazine, a monument of her talents, industry, and piety. Turner, Sharon (1768-1847), a London solicitor and historian. A History of the Anglo-Saxons; a History of England during the Middle Ages; a Sacred History of the World; an historical poem, Richard Third. În one of his works he thus speaks of the CAUSE OF A NATION'S DECLINE. What The freedom of Rome fell with her virtue and moral habits. the patricians were, who led her armies to those victories which established her republic, we may infer from the fact that one of her greatest conquerors in Africa, before Scipio, though a patrician of high rank, possessed but seven acres of land for the support of his family. In this state luxury was impossible and unvalued, and the mind was invigorated by its temperate food. But when expensive habits made riches essential, both body and spirit became enervated. Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1791-1849), of Edinburgh, son of Lord Woodhouselee who wrote the Universal History. The son wrote History of Scotland from Alexander III. to the Union of the Crowns, 1603; Lives of Scottish Worthies; and Life of Sir Walter Raleigh. Ward, R. Plumer (1764-1846), held office in the Admiralty. Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement, a sort of metaphysical and religious romance; De Vere, or the Man of Independence; De Clifford, or the Constant Mar. 1 She was the daughter of an Episcopal clergyman in Norwich, and was early married to a Captain Phelan, of the British army. The union was a very unhappy one. He died in 1837; and in 1841 she was married to Mr. Lucius H. J. Tonna, of London. |