six biscuits-drunk four bottles of soda-waterredde away the rest of my time." He who of old would rend the oak, Milo, a famous athlete of Crotona in Italy, who, according to Herodotus, lived about five hundred years before the Christian Era. The Roman, Sylla. The Spaniard, Charles the Fifth. No. 155. That famed Picard field, the battle of Cressy, August 26th, 1346, where the English under Edward the Third defeated more than twice their number of French under Philip the Sixth. The old blind King of Bohemia, his son the King of the Romans, and a large force of Genoese bowmen under Count Doria, fought on the side of France. The King of Bohemia was killed, and his crest (three ostrich-feathers, with the motto "Ich dien, I serve ") was adopted by the Black Prince, and has ever since been worn by the Princes of Wales. ,, 157. In 1843 Sir Charles Napier defeated the Ameers of Scinde in two pitched battles, fought against tremendous odds, at Meanee and Hyderabad. See Sir Charles Napier ("English Men of Action"), by Major-General Sir William Butler. Truckee, a stronghold in the desert, supposed to be impregnable. Secunder, Alexander the Great. ,, 170. This ballad was first printed in a collection of Macaulay's miscellaneous writings made in 1860, the year after his death. It was composed, however, so long ago as 1839 (the year of his return from India) during a passage across the Channel. The weather was as dirty as that described in the first stanza, and Macaulay, a firstrate sailor, was, with his usual good-nature, below with his companion, who was not equally careless of weather. After a time he went up for a spell on deck, but soon returning, repeated to his friend this ballad which he had composed in the interval. I am indebted for this information to the courtesy of a member of Macaulay's family. No. 172. Him whom butchers murdered, James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, who was murdered by a party of Covenanters in the presence of his daughter, May 3rd, 1679. ,, 174. The allusions in this poem refer to various incidents in the history of the Netherlands, and especially of the cities of Ghent and Bruges, during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. See the Introduction to Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic, and The Chronicles of Froissart (Globe Edition). ,, 178. Pope Calixtus' day, the battle of Hastings, or Senlac, was fought on October 14th, 1066. Stound, confusion. Erne, a kite. Glede, a hawk. It is said that William ordered the body of Harold to be buried on the sea-shore; this may have been done, but it was subsequently laid under the high altar of Waltham Abbey, where some remains of the tomb were seen by Fuller when he was writing his history of the abbey in 1665. It is not certainly known who Edith Swan-neck was, but there is no doubt that she was a real person; and the tradition on which this poem is founded rests on as good a base as most traditions. 180. "Of the six peers thus condemned [after the Scotch Rebellion of 1715] one, Lord Nairn, is said to have been saved solely by the interposition of Stanhope. They had been at Eton together, and though they had scarcely met since that time, yet the minister still retained so much friendship for his former schoolfellow as earnestly to plead for his life; and finding his request refused by the other members of the Cabinet, he made his own resignation the alternative, and thus prevailed." Mahon's History of England, i, 194. The six peers were the Earls of Derwentwater, Nithisdale, and Carnwath, Viscount Kenmure, and Lords Nairn and Widdrington. Of these Carnwath and Widdrington were reprieved with Nairn; Nithisdale escaped in his wife's clothes on the evening of February 23rd, 1716; Derwentwater and Kenmure were beheaded the next day. Dilstone's weird moat; the waters of the moat at Dilstone Castle in Northumberland, the chief seat of the Derwentwaters, are said to have turned red as blood on the morning of the execution. No. 181. The battle of Culloden was fought, April 16th, 1746, on a plain called Drummossie Moor, about six miles from Inverness. The Duke of Cumberland's victory finally extinguished the hopes of the Stuarts and their adherents. See the introduction to this poem in Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. A very spirited account of the battle will be found in Wolfe ("English Men of Action "), by Mr. A. G. Bradley. 184. "There is no sort of historical foundation for 185. The Isle of Avès (Isle of Birds) is really a small ,, 187. Omar Khayyam (Omar the Tent-maker) was born at Naishapoor, in Persia, in the latter half of our eleventh, and died there within the first quarter of our twelfth century. Two literal prose translations of the Rubaiyat, as the poem is called, have been published within recent years, from which it would appear that Mr. FitzGerald's beautiful paraphrase gives Omar credit for more poetical feeling than is to be found in the original Persian. No. 189. A song from The Water-Babies. 190. See also another poem by Matthew Arnold, Geist's Grave. ,, 195. A song from The Water-Babies. 196. Jean-Pierre de Beranger, a favourite poet and song-writer of the French people, was born in Paris, August 19th, 1780, and died there July 17th, 1857. He was a keen Republican, and his songs are considered to have contributed not a little to the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy in 1830. 200. Addressed to Kingsley's niece, Charlotte Grenfell, afterwards Mrs. Theodore Walrond. INDEX OF AUTHORS ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-1888) 250, 257, 261, 303 BARBAULD, Anna Lætitia (1743-1825) 143 BLAKE, William (1757-1827) 130 BROOKE, Fulke Greville, Lord (1554-1628) 42 BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1809-1861) 259 BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889) 244, 260, 292, 301 BRUCE, Michael (1746-1767) 131 BURNS, Robert (1759-1796) 82, 127, 130, 138 BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824) 144, 151, 161, 170, CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart (1831-1884) 279 CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844) 136, 140, 154, 160, 190, 195 CAREW, Thomas (1589-1639) 8 CHATTERTON, Thomas (1752-1770) 101 CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861) 316 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) 118, 125, 128, 133 COLLINS, William (1721-1759) 117 COWPER, William (1731-1800) 103, 115 CUNNINGHAM, Allan (1785-1842) 178 DOYLE, Sir Francis Hastings (1810-1888) 244, 285, 297 DRYDEN, John, (1631-1700) 77, 84 ELLIOT, Jean (1727-1805) 116 EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) 280 FITZGERALD, Edward (1809-1883) 300 FLETCHER, George (1579-1625) 50, 55 GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774) 85, 95, 109 HERRICK, Robert (1591-1674) 8, 51, 56, 72 -1650?) 1 Z |