Category: Biographies
“He was a _pollard_ man, without the _top_ (_i. e._ the reason as the source of ideas, or immediate yet not sensuous truths, having their evidence in themselves; or the imagination or idealizing power, by symbols mediating between the reason and the understanding), but on this...
“He was a _pollard_ man, without the _top_ (_i. e._ the reason as the source of ideas, or immediate yet not sensuous truths, having their evidence in themselves; or the imaginat...
2. CHAPTER II.“An exact Diary is a window into his heart that maketh it: and therefore pity it is that any should look therein but either the friends of the party or such ingenuous foes as wi...
3. CHAPTER III.“Truly may it be said that this was a greater and more grievous loss to the mind’s eye of his posterity, than to the bodily organs of Pepys himself. It makes me restless and dis...
4. CHAPTER IV.“And with asphaltick slime broad as the gate Deep to the roots of hell the gather’d beach They fasten’d: and the _mole_ immense wrought on Over the foaming deep high-arch’d: a b...
5. CHAPTER V.Pepys desired that his name might go down to posterity, but he could little have foreseen the fame that it has attained in the nineteenth century. The mode he took to keep it al...
6. CHAPTER VI.“I have vow’d to spend all my life in London. People do really live no where else; they breathe and move and have a kind of insipid dull being, but there is no life but in Londo...
7. CHAPTER VII.“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone; a man should keep his friendship in constant repair.”--DR. JOHNSON.
8. CHAPTER VIII.“Our seamen, whom no danger’s shape could fright, Unpaid, refuse to mount their ships for spite, Or to their fellows swim on board the Dutch, Who show the tempting metal in thei...
9. CHAPTER IX.The Court of Charles II. was not unlike that of Comus, for drunkenness and vice reigned supreme in both. Pepys’s “Diary” forms a valuable antidote to the Grammont “Memoirs,” bec...
10. CHAPTER X.In dealing with the public characters at the time of the Restoration, the two men who were mainly instrumental in bringing that event about--Monk and Montagu--must needs be give...
11. CHAPTER XI.“The king’s most faithful subjects we, In’s service are not dull, We drink to show our loyalty, And make his coffers full. Would all his subjects drink like us, We’d make him ri...
12. CHAPTER XII.“The shows of things are better than themselves, How doth it stir this airy part of us To hear our poets tell imagin’d fights, And the strange blows that feigned courage gives.”
13. CHAPTER XIII.Now that all the divisions of our subject have been discussed, there is little to add in a concluding chapter. We have seen Pepys in his poverty, when he and his wife struggled...
14. Chapter V. p. 82.--Pepys’s manuscripts in the Rawlinson Collection atthe Bodleian Library, Oxford, are very fully described in the “Oxford Catalogue of Manuscripts,” and the Rev. W. D. Macray’s Index to the same. Besides the letters from various...
15. Chapter V. p. 98.--The following notice of old musical instruments will“The lute about three hundred years ago was almost as popular as is at the present day the pianoforte. Originally it had eight thin catgut strings arranged in four pairs, each b...
16. Chapter VII.--The following is a list of those friends and[The date is that of the letter. B. affixed shows that the MS. is in the Bodleian Library; S. that the letter is printed in Smith’s “Life, &c., of Pepys;” and P. that it is prin...
17. CHAPTER XII.--Pepys was not very careful in setting down the titles[411] The charge was not so frivolous after all, for the writer of an article on the “Diary” in the “Edinburgh Review” for July, 1880, points out that although Pepys denied publ...