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See also:LLOYD, 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 WATKISS (1813–1893) , See also:English See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Homerton, See also:Middlesex, on the 11th of See also:March 1813. He received his See also:early See also:education at See also:Newcastle-under-Lyme See also:grammar school, and at the See also:age of fifteen entered a See also:family business in See also:London, with which he was connected for See also:thirty-five years. He devoted his leisure to the study of See also:art, See also:architecture, See also:archaeology, See also:Shakespeare, classical and See also:modern See also:languages and literature. He died in London on the 22nd of See also:December 1893. The See also:work by which he is best known is The Age of See also:Pericles (1875), characterized by soundness of scholarship, See also:great learning, and a thorough appreciation of the See also:period with which it deals, but rendered unattractive by a difficult and at times obscure See also:style. He wrote also: Xanthian See also:Marbles (1845); See also:Critical Essays upon Shakespeare's Plays (1875); See also:Christianity in the Cartoons [of See also:Raphael] (1865), which excited considerable See also:attention from the manner in which theological questions were discussed; The See also:History of See also:Sicily to the Athenian See also:War (1872); Panics and their Panaceas (1869); an edition of Much See also:Ado about Nothing,
now first published in fully recovered metrical See also:form " (1884; the author held that all the plays were originally written in See also:blank See also:verse). A number of See also:manuscripts still remain unpublished, the most important of which have been bequeathed to the See also:British Museum, amongst them being: A Further History of See also:Greece; The See also:Century of See also:Michael Angelo; The Neo-Platonists.
See Memoir by See also:Sophia See also:Beale prefixed to Lloyd's (posthumously published) See also:Elijah See also:Fenton: his See also:Poetry and See also:Friends (1894), containing a See also:list of published and unpublished See also:works.
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