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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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In robe of dark green hueTwas Echo from her sister, Silence, flew.For quick the hunters horn resounded to the sky !In shade affrighted Silence melts away ;Not so her sister.—Hark ! for onward still, With far-heard step she takes her listening way.Bounding from rock to rock, and hill to hill.Ah, mark the merry maid in mockful playWith thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill I SONNET.Echo et Taciturnitas, Ilac arborum atque iliac ferebantur comas,Autumnus et fniges sinu collegerat: _Sylvestribus Musam in locis, per deviosCalles vagus nemorumque noctem, dum sequor,Somno graves Nymphas stupens video duas •Enque evolavit !—Viridi amicta tegmineEcho soror Taciturnitatem deserit, * Recollections of Foreign Travel; or, Life, Literatuj-e, and Self-Knowledge, bySir Egerton Brydges. London, 1825, vol. ii. p. 18. The author was indebted for theprim.U idea to a short poem by John Walters, of Ruthen, who died about J797, iwhich the suggestive words occur, Echo and Silence, Sister-maids.
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AUTHORof *AGIT.ATFOM AUTHORof tke AFO B TATE DANIEL OCONNELL. 2.11 Venantium namquc ivit ad coelum fragor,Umbrisque territa liquefit Taciturnitas ;Secus ac soror, properantibus quae saltibus,Rupes per collesque pernix emicatAudita longe, celere praecipitans iter,Jocosa jamque Virgo voces milliesImitata laetum replicat, audin? per nemus. * It only remains to be added that Sir Egerton Brydges was born atWootton Court, in Kent, November 30th, 1762 ; entered at QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1780, which he left without obtaining a degree ;was called to the Bar in 1787 ; elected F.A.S., 1795 5 removed to LeePriory in 1810, where he established his private press in 1813 ; receivedthe Knighthood of the foreign Order of St. Joachim in 1808 ; becameM.P. for Maidstone in 1812 ; obtained patent for baronetcy in 1814 ;quitted England for Continental residence in 1818 (the press at LeePriory being finally discontinued in 1823) ; and that he died at CampagneGros Jean, near Geneva, in his seventy-hfth ye

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