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See also:DESPORTES, PHILIPPE (1546-1606) , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Chartres in 1546. As secretary to the See also:bishop of Le See also:Puy he visited See also:Italy, where he gained a knowledge of See also:Italian See also:poetry afterwards turned to See also:good See also:account. On his return to See also:France he attached himself to the See also:duke of See also:Anjou, and followed him to See also:Warsaw on his See also:election as See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Poland. Nine months in Poland satisfied the civilized Desportes, but in 1574 his See also:patron became king of France as See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. He showered favours on the poet, who received, in See also:reward for the skill with Which he wrote occasional poems at the royal See also:request, the See also:abbey of Tiron and four other valuable benefices. A good example of the See also:light and dainty See also:verse in which Desportes excelled is furnished by the well-known See also:villanelle with the refrain " Qui premier s'en repentira," which was on the lips of Henry, duke of See also:Guise, just before his tragic See also:death. Desportes was above all an imitator. He imitated See also:Petrarch, See also:Ariosto, See also:Sannazaro, and still more closely the See also:minor Italian poets, and in 16o4 a number of his plagiarisms were exposed in the Rencontres See also:des See also:Muses de France et d'Italie. As a sonneteer he showed much See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and sweetness, and See also:English poets borrowed freely from him. In his old See also:age Desportes acknowledged his ecclesiastical preferment by a See also:translation of
the See also:Psalms remembered chiefly for the brutal mot of See also:Malherbe: " Votre potage vaut mieux que vos psaumes." Desportes died on the 5th of See also:October 16o6. He had published in 1573 an edition of his See also:works including Diane, See also:Les Amours d'Hippolyte, Elegies, Bergeries, fEuvres chretiennes, &c.
An edition of his fEuvres, by See also:Alfred Michiels, appeared in 1858.
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