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HOME . See also: JOHN (1722-1808), Scottish dramatic poet, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:September 1722 at See also:Leith, where his See also:father, See also:Alexander Home, who was distantly related to the earls of Home, filled the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:town-clerk. He was educated at the See also:grammar school of his native town, and at the university of See also:Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1742. Though he showed a fondness for the profession of arms, he studied divinity, and was licensed by the See also:presbytery of Edinburgh in 1745. In the same See also:year he joined as a volunteer against the Pretender, and was taken prisoner at the See also:battle of See also:Falkirk (1746). With many others he was carried to the See also:castle of See also:Doune in See also:Perthshire, but soon effected his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape. In See also:July 1746 Home was presented to the See also:parish of Athelstaneford, See also:Haddingtonshire, vacant by the See also:death of See also:Robert See also:Blair, the author of The See also:Grave. He had leisure to visit his See also:friends and became especially intimate with See also:David See also:Hume who belonged to the same See also:family as himself. His first See also:play, See also:Agis: a tragedy, founded on See also:Plutarch's narrative, was finished in 1747. He took it to See also:London and submitted it to See also:Garrick for See also:representation at See also:Drury See also:Lane, but it was rejected as unsuitable for the See also:stage. The tragedy of See also:Douglas was suggested to him by See also:hearing a See also:lady sing the ballad of Gil Morrice or See also:Child See also:Maurice (F. J. Child, Popular See also: Ballads, ii. 263). The ballad supplied him with the outline of a See also:simple and striking See also:plot. After five years' labour he completed his play, which he took to London for Garrick's See also:opinion. It also was rejected, but on his return to Edinburgh his friends resolved that it should be brought out in that See also:city. It was produced on the 14th of See also:December 1756 with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the presbytery, who summoned Alexander See also:Carlyle to See also:answer for having attended its representation. Home wisely resigned his See also:charge in 1757, after a visit to London, where Douglas was brought out at Covent See also:Garden on the 14th of See also:March. Peg See also:Woffington played Lady See also:Randolph, a See also:part which found a later exponent in Mrs See also:Siddons. David Hume summed up his admiration for Douglas by saying that his friend possessed " the true theatric See also:genius of See also:Shakespeare and See also:Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one and licentiousness of the other." See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray, See also:writing to See also:Horace See also:Walpole (See also:August, 1757), said that the author " seemed to have retrieved the true See also:language of the stage, which has been lost for these See also:hundred years," but See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson held aloof from the See also:general See also:enthusiasm, and averred that there were not ten See also:good lines in the whole play (See also:Boswell, See also:Life, ed. See also:Croker, 1848, p. 300). In 1758 Home became private secretary to See also:Lord See also:Bute, then secretary of See also:state, and was appointed See also:tutor to the See also:prince of See also:Wales; and in 1760 his See also:patron's See also:influence procured him a See also:pension of £300 per annum and in 1763 a See also:sinecure See also:worth another £goo. Garrick produced Agis at Drury Lane on the 21st of See also: February 1758. By dint of good acting and powerful support, according to Genest (See also:Short See also:Account Sc., iv. 513 seq.), the piece kept the stage for eleven days, but it was lamentably inferior to Douglas. In 176o his tragedy, The See also:Siege of .lquileia, was put on the stage, Garrick taking the part of See also:Aemilius. In 1769 his tragedy of- The Fatal See also:Discovery had a run of nine nights; Alonzo also (1773) had See also:fair success in the representation; but his last tragedy, See also:Alfred (1778), was so coolly received that he gave up writing for the stage. In 1778 he joined a See also:regiment formed by the See also:duke of See also:Buccleuch.
He sustained severe injuries in a fall from horseback which permanently affected his See also:brain, and was persuaded by his friends to retire. From 1767 he resided either at Edinburgh or at a See also:villa which he built at Kilduff near his former parish. It was at this 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 that he wrote his See also:History of the See also:Rebellion of 1745, which appeared in 1802. Home died at Merchistnn See also:Bank, near Edinburgh, on the 5th of September 18o8, in his eighty-See also:sixth year.
The See also:Works of John Home were collected and published by 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 See also:Mackenzie in 1822 with " An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr John Home," which also appeared separately in the same year, but several of his smaller poems seem to have escaped the editor's observation. These are—" The See also:Fate of See also:Caesar," " Verses upon See also:Inveraray,' " See also:Epistle to the See also:Earl of Eglintoun," "See also:Prologue on the Birthday of the Prince of Wales, 1759 " and several " Epigrams," which are printed in vol. ii. of See also:Original Poems by Scottish Gentlemen (1762). See also See also: Sir W. See also:Scott, "The Life and Works of John Home" in the Quarterly See also:Review (See also:June, 1827). Douglas is included in numerous collections of See also:British See also:drama. See also:Voltaire published his Le Caffe, au l'Ecossaise (176o), Londres (really See also:Geneva), as a See also:translation from the See also:work of Mr Hume, described as See also:pasteur de l'eglise d'Edimbourg, but Home seems to have taken no See also:notice of the mystification.
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