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See also:SMART, See also:CHRISTOPHER (1722-1771) , See also:English poet, son 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 Smart, of an old See also:north See also:country See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Ship-See also:bourne, See also:Kent, on the rth of See also:April 1722. His See also:father was steward for the Kentish estates of 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:Viscount See also:Vane, younger son of See also:Lord See also:Barnard of Raby See also:Castle, See also:Durham. Christopher Smart received his first schooling at See also:Maidstone, and then at the See also:grammar school of Durham. He spent See also:part of his vacations at Raby Castle, and his gifts as a poet gained him the patronage of the Vane family. Henrietta, duchess of See also:Cleveland, allowed him a See also:pension of X40 which was paid until her See also:death in 1742. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas 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 his friend Thomas See also:Wharton in 1747, warned him to keep silence about Smart's delinquencies lest they should
come to the ears of 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 Vane (afterwards See also:earl of See also:Darlington), and endanger his See also:allowance. At See also:Cambridge, where he was entered at See also:Pembroke See also:College in 1739, he spent much of his 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 taverns, and got badly into See also:debt, but in spite of his irregularities he became See also:fellow of his college, praelector in See also:philosophy and keeper of the See also:common See also:chest in 1745. In See also:November 1747 he was compelled to remain in his rooms for fear of his creditors. At Cambridge he won the See also:Seaton See also:prize for a poem on " one of the attributes of the Supreme Being " in 1750 (he won the same prize in 1751, 1752, 1753 and 1955); and a See also:farce entitled A Trip to Cambridge, or The Grateful See also:Fair, acted in 1747 by the students of Pembroke, was from his See also:pen. In 1750 he contributed to The Student, or The 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 and Cambridge Monthly See also:Miscellany. During one of his visits to See also:London he had made the acquaintance of See also:John Newbery, the publisher, whose step-daughter, See also:Anna Maria Carman, he married, with the result of forfeiting his fellow-ship in 1753. About 1752 he permanently See also:left Cambridge for London, though he kept his name on the college books, as he had to do 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 to compete for the Seaton prize. He wrote in London under the See also:pseudonym of " See also:Mary Midnight " and " Pentweazle." He had edited The See also:- MIDWIFE (Mid. Eng. midwif, mydwyf or medewife, from preposition mid, with, and wife, i.e. woman, in the sense of one who is with ,the mother, or from adjective mid, one who is the means of delivering the mother, a woman who assists other women in 'childbi
Midwife, or the Old Woman's See also:Magazine (1751–1753), and had a See also:hand in many other " See also:Grub See also:Street " productions. Some criticisms made by " See also:Sir" John See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill (1716 ?–1795) on his Poems on Several Occasions (1752) provoked his See also:satire of the Hilliad (1753), noteworthy as providing the See also:model for the Rolliad. In 1756 he finished a See also:prose See also:translation of See also:Horace, which was widely used, but brought him little profit. He agreed in the same See also:year to produce a weekly See also:paper entitled The Universal Visitor, for which 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 wrote some See also:numbers. In 1751 Smart had shown symptoms of See also:mental See also:aberration, which See also:developed into religious See also:mania, and between 1756 and 1758 he was in an See also:asylum. Dr Johnson visited him and thought that he ought to have been at large. During his confinement he conceived the See also:idea of the single poem that has made him famous, " A See also:Song to See also:David," though the See also:story that it was indented with a See also:key on the panels of his See also:cell, and shaded in with See also:charcoal, may be received with caution. It shows no trace of morbid origin. After his See also:release Smart produced other religious poems, but none of them shows the same See also:inspiration. His wife and See also:children had gone to live with See also:friends as he was unable to support them, and for some time before his death, which took See also:place on the 21st of May 1771, he lived in the rules of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Bench, and was supported by small subscriptions raised by Dr See also:Burney and other friends.
Of all that he wrote, " A Song to David " will alone See also:bear the test of time. Unlike in its See also:simple forceful treatment and impressive directness of expression, as has been said, to anything else in 18th-See also:century See also:poetry, the poem on See also:analysis is found to depend for its unique effect also upon a certain ingenuity of construction, and the novel way in which David's ideal qualities are enlarged upon. This will be more readily understood on reference to the following See also:verse, the first twelve words of which become in turn the key-notes, so to speak, of the twelve succeeding verses:
" See also:Great, valiant, pious, See also:good, and clean,
See also:Sublime, contemplative, serene,
Strong, See also:constant, pleasant, See also:wise !
See also:Bright effluence of exceeding See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace;
Best See also:man !—the swiftness, and the See also:race,
The peril, and the prize."
The last See also:line is characteristic of another peculiarity in " A Song to David," the effective use of See also:alliteration to See also:complete the initial See also:energy of the See also:stanza in many instances. But in the poem throughout is revealed a poetic quality which eludes See also:critical analysis.
From the Poems of the See also:late Christopher Smart (1791) the " Song to David " (pr. 1763) was excluded as forming a See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of his mental aberration. It was reprinted in 1819, and has since received abundant praise. In an abridged See also:form it is included in T. H. See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward's English Feels, vol. iii., and was reprinted in 1895, and in Igor with an introduction by R. A. Streatfeild. Smart's other poems are included in See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson's See also:British Poets. Christopher Smart is one of See also:Robert See also:Browning's subjects in The Parleyings with Certain See also:People (1887). See also the contributions to Notes and Queries of See also:March 25th and May 6th, 1905, by the Rev. D. C. Tovey, who has read, and in some places revised, the above See also:article.
End of Article: SMART, CHRISTOPHER (1722-1771)
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