Category: Biographies

Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight

The Urquharts and their Predecessors in Cromartie--Sir Thomas Urquhart, senior--Birth of our Author--School and University Days--Pecuniary and other Troubles at Home--The Castle of Cromartie--Our Author's Studious Bent--Foreign Travel--The Englishman Abroad--The Scot Abroad 1

Chapters

13. CHAPTER VII

The foundation on which Sir Thomas Urquhart's literary fame securely rests is his translation into English of the first three books of the works of Rabelais. Of these the first...

8. CHAPTER III

Unsuccessful Rising in the North--Sir Thomas makes his Peace with the Church--Return of Charles II. to Scotland--Invasion of England--Battle of Worcester--Sir Thomas a Prisoner...

7. CHAPTER II

Recalled Home--The Covenanting Movement--The Trot of Turriff--Our Author escapes to England--Is Knighted--Publishes his _Epigrams_--His Father's Embarrassments increase--Lesley...

12. CHAPTER VI

Sir Thomas Urquhart's previous excursions into literature had been of a somewhat tentative kind, and calculated to whet the desire of a judicious reader for him to enter upon mo...

6. CHAPTER I

The Urquharts and their Predecessors in Cromartie--Sir Thomas Urquhart, senior--Birth of our Author--School and University Days--Pecuniary and other Troubles at Home--The Castle...

11. CHAPTER V

One of the most characteristic of Sir Thomas Urquhart's works is his PANTOCHRONOCHANON: or, A Peculiar PROMPTUARY of TIME.[175] This contains a complete pedigree of the Urquhart...

10. CHAPTER IV

In 1641, Sir Thomas Urquhart published his first work--a volume of poems, entitled "EPIGRAMS: DIVINE AND MORAL,"[151] and dedicated to the Marquis of Hamilton. The poems are div...

9. Book 2.

Wench wholly martial, to whose inspiration The Colophonian Pöet ow'd his skill: Let my verse merit no Lesse estimation, Then [than] if the point of a Pegasid quill, Dip'd in the...

3. CHAPTER III

Unsuccessful Rising in the North--Sir Thomas makes his Peace with the Church--Return of Charles II. to Scotland--Invasion of England--Battle of Worcester--Sir Thomas a Prisoner...

5. CHAPTER VII

2. CHAPTER II

Recalled Home--The Covenanting Movement--The Trot of Turriff--Our Author escapes to England--Is Knighted--Publishes his _Epigrams_--His Father's Embarrassments increase--Lesley...

1. CHAPTER I

The Urquharts and their Predecessors in Cromartie--Sir Thomas Urquhart, senior--Birth of our Author--School and University Days--Pecuniary and other Troubles at Home--The Castle...

4. CHAPTER VI