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See also:SHARP, 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 (1856-1905) , Scottish poet and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Paisley on the 12th of See also:September 1856. His was a See also:double See also:personality, for during his lifetime he was known solely by a See also:series of poetical and See also:critical See also:works of See also:great, but not of outstanding merit, while from 1894 onwards he published, with elaborate precautions of secrecy, under the name of " Fiona See also:Macleod," a series of stories and sketches in poetical See also:prose which made him perhaps the most conspicuous Scottish writer of the See also:modern Gaelic See also:renaissance. His See also:early See also:life: was spent chiefly in the W. See also:highlands of See also:Scotland, and after leaving See also:Glasgow University he went to See also:Australia in 1877 in See also:search of See also:health. After a cruise in the Pacific he settled 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 in See also:London as clerk to a See also:bank, became an intimate of the Ressettis, and began to contribute to the See also:Pall Mall See also:Gazette and' other See also:journals. In 1885 he became See also:art critic to the Glasgow See also:Herald. He spent much time abroad, in See also:France and See also:Italy, and travelled extensively in See also:America and See also:Africa. In ' 1885 he married-' his See also:cousin, See also:Elizabeth Amelia Sharp, who helped him in much of his See also:literary See also:work and collaborated with him in compiling the See also:Lyra Celtica (1896). His volumes of See also:verse were The Human See also:Inheritance (1882), See also:Earth's Voices (r884), Romantic See also:Ballads and Poems of Fantasy (1886), Sospiri 'di See also:Roma (1891), See also:Flower o' the See also:Vine (1894), Sospiri d' Italia (1906). William Sharp was the See also:general editor of the " See also:Canterbury Poets " series. He.Was a discriminating anthologist, and his Sonnets of the See also:Century (x886), to which he prefixed a useful See also:treatise on the See also:sonnet, ran through many See also:editions. This was followed by See also:American Sonnets (1889). He wrote See also:biographies of See also:Dante See also:Gabriel See also:Rossetti (r88a)' of See also:Shelley (1887), of Heinrich See also:Heine (1888), of See also:Robert See also:Browning (1890), and edited the See also:memoirs of See also:Joseph See also:Severn (1892). The most notable of his novels was Silence See also:Farm (1899). During the later years of his life he was obliged for reasons of health to spend all his winters abroad. The See also:secret of his authorship of the " Fiona Macleod " books was faithfully kept until his See also:death, which took See also:place at the See also:Castello di Manlaee, See also:Sicily, on the 12th of See also:December 1905. As See also:late as the 13th of May 1899 Fiona. Macleod had written to the See also:Athenaeum stating' that she wrote only under that name and that it was her own.' She began to publish her tales and sketches of the See also:primitive See also:Celtic See also:world in 1894 with Pharais: A See also:Romance of the Isles. They found only a limited public, though an enthusiastic one. The earlier volumes include The See also:Mountain Lovers (1895), The See also:Sin-Eater (1895), The Washer of the See also:Ford and other Legendary Moralities (1896), &c. In 1897 a collected edition of the shorter 'See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, with some new ones, was issued as Spiritual Tales, Barbaric Tales and Tragic Romances. Later volumes are The Dominion
of Dreams (1899); The Divine See also:Adventure: See also:Iona: and other Studies in Spiritual See also:History (1900), and Winged Destiny (1904).
End of Article: SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)
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