So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
[573] Melˊ-an-chol-y, low-spirited; unhappy; sad.
[574] Wailˊ-ing, moaning; grieving over; weeping loudly.
[575] Edˊ-dy-ing, moving circularly.
[576] This reading—caws, instead of calls—is sanctioned by the gifted author.
[577] Glade, an open or cleared place in a forest or wood.
[578] Glen, a retired and narrow valley; a narrow space between hills.
LXXIX.—EDWARD THE CONFESSOR.
LINGARD.
John Lingard, D. D., was born in England in 1771; died in 1851. With the completion of the “History of England,” which has been republished in New York in thirteen volumes, the literary fame of Dr. Lingard became established throughout Europe. Cardinal Wiseman speaks of this history, and its learned author, in the following terms: “It is a Providence that in history we have had given to the nation a writer like Lingard, whose gigantic merit will be better appreciated in each successive generation, as it sees his work standing calm and erect amidst the shoals of petty pretenders to usurp his station. When Hume shall have fairly taken his place among the classical writers of our tongue, and Macaulay shall have been transferred to the shelves of romances and poets, and each thus have received his due meed of praise, then Lingard will be still more conspicuous as the only impartial historian of our country.”