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See also:SYMONDS, 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:SAMUEL (1818-1887) , was See also:born in See also:Hereford in 1818. He was educated at See also:Cheltenham and See also:Christ's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1842. Having taken See also:holy orders he was appointed See also:curate of Offenham, near See also:Evesham in 1843, and two years later he was presented to the living of Pendock in See also:Worcestershire, where he remained until 1877. While at Offenham he became acquainted with H. E. See also:Strickland and imbibed from him such an See also:interest in natural See also:history and See also:geology, that his leisure was henceforth devoted to these subjects. He was one of the founders of the Woolhope Naturalists' See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field See also:Club (1851) and of the See also:Malvern Naturalists' Field Club (18J3), and was an active member of the Cotteswold Field Club and other See also:local See also:societies. In 1858 he edited an edition of See also:Hugh See also:Miller's Cruise of the " Betsey." Ile was the author of numerous essays on the geology of the Malvern See also:country, notably of a See also:paper " On the passage-beds from the Upper See also:Silurian rocks into the See also:Lower Old Red See also:Sandstone at See also:Ledbury " (Quart. Journ. Geol. See also:Soc. 186o). His See also:principal See also:work was Records of the Rocks (1872). He was author of Stones of the Valley (18J7), Old Bones, or Notes for See also:Young Naturalists (18J9, 2nd ed. 1864), and other popular See also:works. He died at Cheltenham on the 15th of See also:September 1887.
See A See also:Sketch of the See also:Life of the Rev. W. S. Symonds, by the Rev. J. D. La Touche.
SYMOND'S YAT, one of the most famous view points on the See also:river Wye; See also:England. At a point 9 m. above See also:Monmouth and 12 M. below See also:Ross by See also:water, the Wye makes a sweep of nearly 5 m. See also:round a See also:peninsula whose See also:neck is only some 600 yds. across. The peninsula is occupied by the See also:limestone acclivity of Hunts-See also:ham 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. Caverns are seen in the limestone on both precipitous See also:banks of the river. The Yat or See also:Gate is situated on the See also:west See also:side of the neck, which reaches an See also:elevation over 500 ft., and a road from the See also:east drops to a See also:ferry, which was of See also:early importance as a See also:highway between England and See also:Wales. The boundary between See also:Herefordshire and See also:Gloucestershire crosses the neck; the Yat is in the See also:county first named, but the railway station, on the east side (See also:left See also:bank) is in Gloucestershire. It is on the Ross-Monmouth See also:line of the See also:Great Western railway. There are here See also:groups of cottages and several inns on both banks, while opposite the Yat itself is the See also:hamlet of New See also:Weir, and a little above it the See also:village of See also:Whitchurch. The river banks are densely wooded, except where they become sheer cliffs, as at the Coldwell rocks above the station. The surrounding country is hilly and See also:rich, and the views from the Yat are superb, embracing the See also:Forest of See also:Dean to the See also:south and east, and backed by the mountains of the Welsh border in the west.parents. He was educated privately, spending 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 See also:France and See also:Italy. In 1884-1886 he edited four of See also:Quaritch's See also:Shakespeare See also:Quarto Facsimiles, and in 1888-1889 seven plays of the " 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:Irving " Shakespeare. He became a member of the See also:staff of the See also:Athenaeum in 1891, and of the Saturday See also:Review in 1894. His first See also:volume of See also:verse, Days and Nights (1889), consisted of dramatic monologues. His later verse is influenced by a See also:close study of See also:modern See also:French writers, of See also:Baudelaire and especially of See also:Verlaine. He reflects French tendencies both in the subject-See also:matter and See also:style of his poems, in their eroticism and their vividness of description. His volumes of verse are: Silhouettes (1892), See also:London Nights (1895), Amoris victima (1897), Images of See also:Good and Evil (1899), A See also:Book of Twenty Songs (1905). In 1902 he made a selection from his earlier verse, published as Poems (2 vols.). He translated from the See also:Italian of Gabriele d'See also:Annunzio The Dead See also:City (1900) and The See also:Child of See also:Pleasure (1898), and from the French of Emile See also:Verhaeren The See also:Dawn (1898). To The Poems of Ernest See also:Dawson (1905) he prefixed an See also:essay on the deceased poet, who was a See also:kind of See also:English Verlaine and had many attractions for Mr See also:Symons. Among his volumes of collected essays are: Studies in Two Literatures (1897), The Symbolist School in Literature (1899), Cities (1903), word-pictures of See also:Rome, See also:Venice, See also:Naples, See also:Seville, &c., Plays, Acting and See also:Music (1903), Studies in See also:Prose and Verse (1904), Spiritual Adventures (1905), Studies in Seven Arts (1906).
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