Timothy Dwight, a celebrated American Congregational clergyman, was born in Northampton, Mass., May 14, 1752, and died in New Haven, Conn., January 11, 1817. He wrote: “Observations on Language,” “Essay on Light,” “Greenfield Hill” “Travels in New England and New York,” “Theology Explained and Defended,” etc.
“You can never say too much about Coleridge to me,” Rossetti would write, “for I worship him on the right side of idolatry, and I perceive you know him well.” Upon this one of my first remarks was that there was much in Coleridge’s higher descriptive verse equivalent to the landscape art of Turner. The critical parallel Rossetti warmly approved of, adding however, that Coleridge, at his best as a pictorial artist, was a spiritualised Turner.
“Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti,”—Hall Caine.
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, an eminent English novelist, was born at Runcorn, Cheshire, May 14, 1853. His most noted works are: “The Deemster,” “A Son of Hagar,” “Recollections of Rossetti,” “The Scapegoat,” “The Shadow of a Crime,” “The Manxman,” “The Christian,” “The White Prophet,” “The Prodigal Son,” “The Woman Thou Gavest Me,” etc. Also: “The Drama of 365 Days,” “Scenes in the Great War,” “Britain’s Daughters,” etc.
Sooth ’twere a pleasant life to lead,
With nothing in the world to do
But just to blow a shepherd’s reed,
The silent season thro’
And just to drive a flock to feed,—
Sheep, quiet, fond and few!
“Dolce far Niente,” Stanza I,—Laman Blanchard.
Samuel Laman Blanchard, a noted British author and journalist, was born May 15, 1804, and died February 15, 1845. He published “Lyric Offerings,” etc.; and edited numerous magazine journals.
The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will be the expression of it.
—Balzac.
Honoré de Balzac, the greatest of French novelists, was born in Tours, May 16, 1799, and died in Paris, August 18, 1850. He wrote in all about 97 celebrated novels. Among them: “Le Vieille Fille,” “Contrat De Marriage,” “Le Colonel Chabert,” “Les Chouans,” “Pierrette,” “Seraphita,” “Les Employés,” “Modeste Mignon,” “Histoire Des Treize,” “Début Dans La Vie,” “Ursule Mirouet,” “Eugène Grandet,” “Cousin Pons,” “Le Père Goriot,” “Les Paysans,” “Cousine Bette,” etc., etc.