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See also:LEWIS, See also:MATTHEW See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
GREGORY (1775-1818) , See also:English See also:romance-writer and dramatist, often referred to as " See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk " Lewis, was See also:born in See also:London on the 9th of See also:July 1775. He was educated for a See also:diplomatic career at See also:Westminster school and at See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, spending most of his vacations abroad in the study of See also:modern See also:languages; and in 1794 he proceeded to the See also:Hague as attache to the See also:British See also:embassy. His stay there lasted only a few months, but was marked by the See also:composition, in ten See also:weeks, of his romance Ambrosio, or the Monk, which was published in the summer of the following See also:year. It immediately achieved celebrity; but some passages it contained were of such a nature that about a year after its See also:appearance an See also:injunction to restrain its See also:sale was moved for and a See also:rule nisi obtained. Lewis published a second edition from which he had expunged, as he thought, all the objectionable passages, but the See also:work still remains of such a See also:character as almost to justify the severe See also:language in which See also:Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers addresses
" Wonder-working Lewis, Monk or See also:Bard,
Who See also:fain would'st make See also:Parnassus a See also:churchyard; Even Satan's self with thee might dread to dwell, And in thy See also:skull discern a deeper See also:hell."
Whatever its demerits, ethical or aesthetic, may have been, The Monk did not interfere with the reception of Lewis into the best English society; he was favourably noticed at See also:court, and almost as soon as he came of See also:age he obtained a seat in the See also:House of See also:Commons as member for Hindon, Wilts. After some years, however, during which he never addressed the House, he finally withdrew from a See also:parliamentary career. His tastes See also:lay wholly in the direction of literature, and The See also:Castle Spectre (1796, a musical See also:drama of no See also:great See also:literary merit, but which enjoyed a See also:long popularity on the See also:stage), The See also:Minister (a See also:translation from See also:Schiller's Kabale u. Liebe), Rolla (1797, a translation from See also:Kotzebue), with numerous other operatic and tragic pieces, appeared in rapid See also:succession. The See also:Bravo of See also:Venice, a romance translated from the See also:German, was published in 1804; next to The Monk it is the best known work of Lewis. By the See also:death of his See also:father he succeeded to a large See also:fortune, and in 1815 embarked for the See also:West Indies to visit his estates; in the course of this tour, which lasted four months, the See also:Journal of a West See also:Indian Proprietor, published posthumously in 1833, was written. A second visit to See also:Jamaica was undertaken in 1817, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order that he might become further acquainted with, and able to ameliorate, the See also:condition of the slave See also:population; the fatigues to which he exposed himself in the tropical See also:climate brought on a See also:fever which terminated fatally on the homeward voyage on the 14th of May 1818.
The See also:Life and See also:Correspondence of M. G. Lewis, in two volumes, was published in 1839.
End of Article: LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY (1775-1818)
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