Sweet, Henry (1845–1912) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., Henry ( 1845–1912 ) A great phonetician and, after A. J. Ellis ( 1814–90 ) one of the founders of that study in England. He is said to have been the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw 's Henry Higgins in Pygmalion . His works are still a staple of the study of Old English and the philology of English; the most celebrated are History of English Sounds ( 1874 , 1888 ); Anglo‐Saxon Reader ( 1876 ); Anglo‐Saxon Primer ( 1882 ); A New English Grammar ( 1892 , 1898 ); The History of Language ( 1900 ); and The Sounds of English: An...
Sweet, Henry (1845–1912) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3 ed.)
..., Henry ( 1845–1912 ) British grammarian, phonetician, and Anglicist, whose contributions to phonetics and to our knowledge of the early history of English are both fundamental. Phonetics was for Sweet ‘the indispensable foundation of all language study, whether practical or scientific’: his description and classification of vowels, in particular, was brilliant, and his advocacy of transcriptions based on the Roman alphabet, as opposed to Visible Speech or other analphabetic systems , was decisive in the period leading to the foundation of the ...
Sweet, Henry (1845–1912) Quick reference
The Oxford Companion to the English Language (2 ed.)
...Sweet, Henry ( 1845–1912 ). English philologist , phonetician , and grammarian . Born in London, and educated at King’s College School, London, he matriculated in 1864 at the U. of Heidelberg. In 1871 , while still an undergraduate, he edited King alfred ’s translation of the Cura Pastoralis for the Early English Text Society, his commentary laying the foundation of old english dialectology. Further works on Old English include: An anglo-saxon Reader ( 1876 ); The Oldest English Texts ( 1885 ); A Student’s Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon...
Sweet, Henry (1845–1912) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., Henry ( 1845–1912 ) A great phonetician and, after A. J. Ellis ( 1814–90 ) one of the founders of that study in England, educated at Heidelberg University and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was awarded a fourth class in Lit. Hum. ( 1873 ). He lived in Oxford from 1895 until his death, but he never fully received the recognition there that his eminence warranted; the readership in phonetics he was given in 1901 was a poor compensation for his failure to gain a number of chairs. He is said to have been the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw 's...
Sweet, Henry (1845–1912) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
..., Henry ( 1845–1912 ) British phonetician and comparative philologist An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse ( 1876 ) Non-Fiction A Handbook of Phonetics ( 1877 ) Non-Fiction An Anglo-Saxon Primer ( 1882 ) Non-Fiction First Middle English Primer ( 1884 ) Non-Fiction Second Middle English Primer ( 1886 ) Non-Fiction A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader, Archaic and Dialectal ( 1887 ) Non-Fiction...
Henry Sweet
Love’s Labour’s Lost Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...French court: King Henri of Navarre did have two lords called the Maréchal de Biron and the Duc de Longueville, who served as commanders in the French civil war from 1589 to 1592 . Biron was widely known in England, since he became an associate and adviser of the Earl of Essex when he led an English force to Henry’s aid. It has been conjectured that the main story of Love’s Labour’s Lost may derive from a now-lost account of a diplomatic visit to Henry in 1578 made by Catherine de Médicis and her daughter Marguerite de Valois, Henry’s estranged wife, to...
Venus and Adonis Reference library
Michael Dobson and Will Sharpe
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...profusion of editions but by a number of contemporary comments: by Meres in 1598 (‘the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis ’), by Barnfield in the same year, by Weever in 1599 , and by Gabriel Harvey in 1600 (‘the younger sort takes much delight in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis ’). The poem is cited repeatedly and with particular enthusiasm in the Parnassus plays (‘I’ll worship sweet Master Shakespeare, and to know him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow’), and...
Sonnets Reference library
Michael Dobson
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...the most characteristic feature of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is their fine poise between the idea developed over the three quatrains and its qualification or repudiation in the final couplet: it is impossible to decide, for example, whether in Sonnet 30, ‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’, the concluding assertion that ‘all losses are restored’ by the thought of the friend constitutes a triumphant repudiation of the three quatrains’ preceding evocation of life’s inevitable costs or a poignantly unconvincing defiance. Critical history: Although some...
Twelfth Night Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...in the gender cross-dressing of Viola and the hints of homoeroticism which inform her relations with Orsino and Olivia, not to mention Antonio’s adoration of Sebastian. Stage history: A similar trajectory—from unfashionably whimsical trifle to happy romantic comedy to bitter-sweet drama of social and sexual identity—informs Twelfth Night ’s post-Restoration stage history. The play was evidently popular down to the Civil War, as Digges ’s poem suggests: a court performance is recorded in 1622 as ‘Malvolio’ (a title by which Charles I would also call...
Poetry Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...bursts her crimsn curtaind bed And comes forth in the majesty of beauty; every Flower The Pink, the Jessamine, the Wall-flower, the Carnation The Jonquil, the mild Lilly opes her heavens! every Tree, And Flower & Herb soon fill the air with an innumerable Dance Yet all in order sweet & lovely, Men are sick with Love! Such is a Vision of the lamentation of Beulah over Ololon. Of first importance here is the contradiction: that this scene of the ‘majesty of beauty’ is fundamentally, paradoxically, ‘a Vision of … lamentation’. Beulah's lamentation repeats the...
The Wisdom of Solomon Reference library
William Horbury and William Horbury
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...it is eaten’ (Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, 31.15); ‘O may my mind for ever live from thee, And thou, O Christ, its sweetness ever be’ (Aquinas, Rhythm on the Blessed Sacrament ). vv. 24–5 (with vv. 17, 23; 19:6, 18–21 ) allow for miracles in the providential order by envisaging a transmutation of the elements, in accord with Stoic teaching (‘the four elements are changed and transmuted up and down’, Epictetus frag. 8; Sweet 1965 ). Harmony wherein even apparently destructive forces work together for good ( Judg 5:20; Wis 5:20; 16:17; Rom 8:28 )...
The Antiquarian Tradition Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...a revised edition of Camden's Britannia in 1695 , which provided a new impetus to antiquarian studies in many parts of Britain. Such writing continued to flourish in the 18th century and was given a new stimulus in the later decades by the Romantic Movement . See Rosemary Sweet , The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth‐Century Britain (2004) , and John Beckett , Writing Local History (2007) . However, the most popular 18th‐century works were sometimes more akin to the early chorographic studies than to the new natural histories. The finest included...
Domestic Buildings Quick reference
Malcolm Airs
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... in the 16th century and was continued through subsequent centuries by writers such as Celia Fiennes , Daniel Defoe , and Lord Torrington . Esther Moir , The Discovery of Britain ( 1964 ), provides a good introduction to this category of evidence together with Rosemary Sweet , Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth‐Century Britain ( 2004 ). The diaries and reminiscences of James Lees‐Milne , who represented the National Trust when they were acquiring the bulk of their country house estate in the 1940s and 1950s, offer a vivid account...
48 The History of the Book in America Reference library
Scott E. Casper and Joan Shelley Rubin
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...a profit, to supplying American readers with books that, in the publishers’ judgement, possessed literary merit or social utility. Thus, Henry Holt personally oversaw the compilation of The Home Book of Verse ( 1912 ), edited by Burton E. Stevenson , while putting his resources into such ‘serious’ authors as Dorothy Canfield Fisher , Robert Frost , John Dewey , and Stuart P. Sherman ; Charles Scribner published Henry James , George Santayana , and Edith Wharton , but refused a novel of Arnold Bennett’s because of its ‘unpleasant sordid details’...
Dutch Family Names Reference library
Leendert Brouwer, Peter McClure, and Charles Gehring
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...hypocoristic suffix, reserved for boys’ names. Female given names were often adapted from male given names. So Heintjes could be explained as a metronymic from the female given name Heintje . But, of course, boys were also given pet forms such as Heintje , and if they were sweet enough, they were still called Heintje when they were grown up. So Heintjes could be metronymic or patronymic and, taking into account that the naming system was very patrifocal, probably most - ke and -tje surnames refer to forefathers. As mentioned before, the most...
Sensibility Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...by the unfathomed question of their sexuality. To make men more sensitive, more delicate, was, in the eighteenth century's own terms, to bring them closer to women and to run the risk of making them too ‘effeminate’ or ‘feminine’. Henry Fielding 's ( 1707–54 ) eponymous hero Tom Jones carried ‘the most apparent marks of sweetness and good nature’ and included ‘spirit and sensibility in his eyes, which might have given him an air rather too effeminate had it not been joined to most masculine person and mien’. Women novelists, too, combined their advocacy of...
Ecclesiasticus, or The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach Reference library
John J. Collins and John J. Collins
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the person of unrestrained passion, the person guilty of incest, and the adulterer. Sirach gives equal time to the adulterer and adulteress. The discussion of the adulterer can be viewed as an extrapolation from Prov 9:17 , which refers to the sweetness of stolen water and bread eaten in secret. Sirach speaks of sweet bread and dwells at length on the issue of secrecy. On the futility of hiding from the Lord, cf. 16:17–23 above. Here Sirach adds that God knows everything even before it is created. Cf. 1QH 9:23 (formerly numbered 1:23 ): ‘What can I say...
