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See also:HENLEY, See also:JOHN (1692-1759) , See also:English clergyman, commonly known as `; Orator Henley," was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:August 1692 at Melton-See also:Mowbray, where his See also:father was See also:vicar. After attending the See also:grammar See also:schools of Melton and See also:Oakham, he entered St John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and while still an under-See also:graduate he addressed in See also:February 1712, under the See also:pseudonym of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter de Quir, a See also:letter, to the Spectator displaying no small wit and See also:humour. After graduating B.A., he became assistant and then headmaster of the grammar school of his native See also:town, uniting to these duties those of assistant See also:curate. His abundant See also:energy found still further expression in a poem entitled See also:Esther, See also:Queen of See also:Persia (1714), and in the compilation of a grammar of ten See also:languages entitled The See also:Complete Linguist (2 vols., See also:London, 1719-1721). He then decided to go to London, where he obtained the See also:appointment of assistant preacher in the chapels of See also:Ormond See also:Street and Bloomsbury. In 1723 he was presented to the rectory of Chelmondiston in See also:Suffolk; but See also:residence being insisted on, he resigned both his appointments, and on the 3rd of See also:July 1726 opened what he called an See also:oratory " in See also:Newport See also:Market, which he licensed under the See also:Toleration See also:Act. In 1729 he transferred the See also:scene of his operations to See also:Lincoln's In See also:Fields. Into his services he introduced many See also:peculiar alterations: he See also:drew up a " See also:Primitive See also:Liturgy," in which he substituted for the Nicene and Athanasian See also:creeds two creeds taken from the See also:Apostolical Constitutions; for his " Primitive See also:Eucharist " he made use of unleavened See also:bread and mixed See also:wine; he distributed at the See also:price of one See also:shilling medals of See also:admission to his oratory, with the See also:device of a See also:sun rising to the See also:meridian, with the See also:motto Ad summa, and the words Inveniam viam See also:aut faciam below. But the most See also:original See also:element in the services was Henley himself, who is described by See also:Pope in the Dunciad as
" Preacher at once and See also:zany of his See also:age."
He possessed some oratorical ability and adopted a very theatrical See also:style of elocution, " tuning his See also:voice and balancing his hands "; and his addresses were a See also:strange medley of solemnity and buffoonery, of See also:clever wit and the wildest absurdity, of able and original disquisition and the worst artifices of the oratorical See also:charlatan. His services were much frequented by the " See also:free-thinkers," and he himself expressed his determination " to See also:die a rational." Besides his See also:Sunday sermons, he delivered Wednesday lectures on social and See also:political subjects; and he also projected a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for connecting with the " oratory " a university on quite a utopian See also:plan. For some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he edited the Hyp See also:Doctor, a weekly See also:paper established in opposition to the Crafts-See also:man, and for this service he enjoyed a See also:pension of £See also:loo a See also:year from See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Walpole. At first the orations of Henley drew See also:great crowds, but, although he never discontinued his services, .his See also:audience latterly dwindled almost entirely away. He died on the 13th of See also:October 1759.
Henley is the subject of several of See also:Hogarth's prints. His See also:life, professedly written by A. Welstede, but in all See also:probability by himself, was inserted by him in his Oratory Transactions. See J. B. See also:Nichols, See also:History of See also:Leicestershire; I. Disraeli, Calamities of Authors.visited his contributor in See also:hospital and took Robert See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Steven-son, another recruit of the Cornhill, with him. The See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting between See also:Stevenson and Henley, and the friendship of which it was the beginning, See also:form one of the best-known episodes in See also:recent literature (see especially Stevenson's letter to Mrs Sitwell, See also:Jan. 1875, and Henley's poems " An Apparition " and " See also:Envoy to See also:Charles See also:Baxter "). In 1877 Henley went to London and began his editorial career by editing London, a See also:journal of a type more usual in See also:Paris than London, written for the See also:sake of its contributors rather than of the public. Among other distinctions it first gave to the See also:world The New Arabian Nights of Stevenson. Henley himself contributed to his journal a See also:series of verses chiefly in old See also:French forms. He had been See also:writing See also:poetry since 1872, but (so he told the world in his " See also:advertisement " to his collected Poems, 1898) he " found himself about 1877 so utterly unmarketable that he had to own himself beaten in See also:art and to addict himself to journalism for the next ten years." After the decease of London, he edited the See also:Magazine of Art from 1882 to •1886. At the end of that See also:period he came before the public as a poet. In 1887 Mr Gleeson See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White made for the popular series of See also:Canterbury Poets (edited by Mr See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Sharp) a selection of poems in old French forms. In his selection Mr Gleeson White included a considerable number of pieces from London, and only after he had completed the selection did he discover that the verses were all by one See also:hand, that of Henley. In the following year, Mr H. B. See also:Donkin in his See also:volume Voluntaries, done for an See also:East End hospital, included Henley's unrhymed rhythms quintessentializing the poet's memories of the old See also:Edinburgh Infirmary. Mr See also:Alfred Nutt read these, and asked for more; and in 1888 his See also:firm published A See also:Book of See also:Verse. Henley was by this time well known in a restricted See also:literary circle, and See also:tin publication of this volume determined for them his fame as a poet, which rapidly outgrew these limits, two new See also:editions of this volume being called for within three years. In this same year (1888) Mr See also:Fitzroy See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell started the Scots Observer in Edinburgh, with Henley as literary editor, and See also:early in 1889 Mr Bell See also:left the conduct of the paper to him. It was a weekly See also:review somewhat on the lines of the old Saturday Review, but inspired in every See also:paragraph by the vigorous and combative See also:personality of the editor. It was transferred soon after to London as the See also:National Observer, and remained under Henley's editorship until 1893. Though, as Henley confessed, the paper had almost as many writers as readers, and its fame was mainly confined to the literary class, it was a lively and not uninfluential feature of the literary life of its time. Henley had the editor's great See also:gift of discerning promise, and the " Men of the Scots Observer," as Henley affectionately and characteristically called his See also:band of contributors, in most instances justified his insight. The paper found utterance for the growing imperialism of its See also:day, and among other services to literature gave to the world Mr See also:Kipling's Barrack-See also:Room See also:Ballads. In 1890 Henley published Views and Reviews, a volume of notable criticisms, described by himself as "less a book than a mosiac of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism." The criticisms, covering a wide range of authors (except See also:Heine and See also:Tolstoy, all English and French), though wilful and often one-sided were terse, trenchant and picturesque, and remarkable for insight and gusto. In 1892 he published a second volume of poetry, named after the first poem, The See also:Song of the See also:Sword, but on the issue of the second edition (1893) re-christened London
Voluntaries after another See also:section. Stevenson wrote that he had not received the same thrill of poetry since Mr See also:Meredith's-
" Joy of See also:Earth " and " Love in the Valley," and he did not know that that was so intimate and so deep. " I did not guess you were so great a magician. These are new tunes; this is an undertone of the true See also:Apollo. These are not verse; they are poetry." In 1892 Henley published also three plays written with Stevenson—Beau See also:Austin, See also:Deacon See also:Brodie and See also:Admiral See also:Guinea. In 1895 followed See also:Macaire, afterwards published in a volume with the other plays. Deacon Brodie was produced in Edinburgh in 1884 and later in London.
End of Article: HENLEY, JOHN (1692-1759)
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