O dull conceited Dido! that till now His lips an altar, where I'll offer up As many kisses as the sea hath sands. Instead of music I will hear him speak, His looks shall be my only library.---Marlowe. Acts. THE dedication of the Church, at Rome, of St. Mary ad Nives', 435. Cicero lands from Durazzo, at Brundusium, and is met there by his excellent daughter, on the anniversary of her birth, B. C. 57. The inauguration of Henry I. surnamed Beauclerk, at Westminster, (Sunday), 1100. He instantly granted a charter to the nation, restoring the laws of Edward the Confessor to the same state in which they had been settled by the Conqueror; and drove from his court the effæminati’ with all their enormous and disgusting train. Charles VI. of France, surnamed the well-beloved, is seized with a mental distemper, which, as it deprived him of the sovereign authority, afterwards led, in bad hands, to the ruin of his kingdom, 1391. : The peace and league of Cambray, by land, sea, and fresh water,' is concluded between the Emperor Charles and-Harry the Eighth it was ratified by the latter on the 27th of November, and acceded to by the Archduchess of Austria, on the 6th of December, 1529. Queen Elizabeth visits Cambridge (Saturday), 1564: "after having been welcomed with a speech and presents, she went to King's College Chapel, and thanked God, that had sent her to this University, where she, altogether against her expectation, was so received, that she thought she could not be better. The next evening her Majesty was entertained in the chapel with the 'Aulularia' of Plautus; on Monday night with the 'Dido,' in Latin, of Edward Haliwell; and on Tuesday, with Udall's English play of Ezechias.' She departed the next day. Gilbert takes possession of St. John's in Newfoundland, 1583. Eugene defeats the Vizier Coumourgi, at Peterwaradin, 1717. Well, I am a pimp; the common bane of youth, a perjurer, a public nuisance, I confess it: yet I never did you wrong.---No, that's to come. Terence. Day. Where springs the pleasant west-wind to unfold Of the great shield, wherein the lion lies 'The loving minion of the Christian faith.'-Del Paradiso. VIII. Archbishop (Matthew) Parker, Henry the Lion (of Saxony), Id. 1504, Norwich. 6. Bulstrode Whitelock, 1605, Fleet Street, London. Paris. Francis Fenelon de la Motte, Edward Holdsworth, 1688, North Stoneham. 1195. d. Brunswick. Saint Dominic de Guzman, 1221. d. Bologna. (Rome.) Anne Shakspeare, 1623. Stratford upon Avon. O rare Ben Jonson, 1637. d. Bartholomew Camille de Bois- Ulric Obrecht, 1701. Strasburg. sieu, 1734, Lyons. John du Hamel, 1706. d. Paris. John Baptist Bessieres, 1768, Thos. Rawlinson [Tom Folio), Preissac, in Lot. Where the lion's skin falls short, it must be eked out with the fox's. Lysander. Obits of the Latin Church. St. Xystus II. (or Sixtus) Pope, Sts. Justus and Pastor, Bro- 1725. d. Aldersgate Street. Dr. David Wilkins, 1745. Christian VI. (of Denmark), N. S. 1746. D. Allan, 1796, d. Edinburgh. d. Brompton. Marie Eliezer Block, 1799. d. Thomas Twining, 1804. died, Frederica, Duchess of York, 1820. Weybridge. James Mitan, 1822. d. London. A thousand authors he in vain has read, And with their maxims stuff'd his empty head. -Boileau. Lo! hand in hand they decently advance, Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound: That to the spheres themselves shall silence bring, Then all the wide-extended sky, And all th' harmonious worlds on high, And Virgil's sacred work shall die.---The Resurrection. Acts. THE TRANSFIGURATION. It is a holy festival observed by the Latin church, commemorating the miraculous change of Christ's appearance on Mount Tabor, in Galilee, in the presence of the three apostles. The great day at Marathon, on the sixth of Boëdromion (sixteenth day of the moon), B. C. 490, ten years preceding Salamis. Æschylus, in his thirty-sixth year, was present.-See 28th September. Geoffrey, Earl of Brittany, father of the unhappy Prince Arthur, receives knighthood from Henry II. in the palace of Woodstock, 1178. It was a few days after, in the preceding year, that the Fair Rosamond' Clifford died, as is now generally supposed, at Godstow. The bull of Pope Nicholas procured by the curates of London, 1453, commanding every householder within the city and liberty that is in the rent of 10s. by the year, to pay to God and his curate, every offering-day, one farthing; and so by that scale for the more wealthy inhabitants. John Huniades raises the first siege of Belgrade, 1443. Lionel Ducket, the Lord Mayor, transmits to Lord Burleigh an act of the Common Council, forbidding the venison feasts in the halls of the city, which we understand to have been offensive to her Majesty, 1573. Davis, the navigator, reaches the strait which now bears his name, casting his anchor in Exeter Bay, beneath that brave mount, the cliffs whereof were orient as gold, 1585. He called it Mount Raleigh.' Dugdale notes, 1657, the new market-place for herbs in St. Paul's Churchyard (North) is opened,—paved with the ruins of the Chapter House and cloister. Maynwaring's 'Medley' terminates, 1711. Francis II. by a formal act resigns his titles of Emperor of Germany' and King of Rome, and annexes his possessions in Germany to the Austrian empire, 1806. The millennium of the Empire, founded by Charlemagne, fell upon the holiday of Christmas, 1800. I'll hide the rest, and grieve for what hath been, *** 537 Day. VII. Id. 7. Now hear what blessings temperance can bring: Remembers oft the schoolboy's simple fare, The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.---Satires. Adam Bartsch, 1757, Germany. Leonidas, B. C. 480. slain, Ther Princess Amelia, of England, mopyla. Herod Agrippa (of Palestine), A. D. 44. d. Casarea. assassinated, near Tortona. Lothaire (of Lorraine), 869. d. Placentia. Henry IV. (Emperor), 1106. d. Sir Richard Verney, 1630. Cæsar frequently confessed to me, that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away.' I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus; and was told, 'that his ancestor, Junius, So-John Smith, 1652. Cambridge. crates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself, were perpetually together:' a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh. Gulliver. Obits of the Latin Church. 361. St. Cajetan, of Thienna, d. 1547. Michael Maittaire, 1747. What I was as an artist, seemed to be of some importance while I lived; but what I really was as a believer in Christ is the only thing of importance to me Monumental Inscription. now. This day, O Grecians! countrymen, and friends, Demand your swords. You gen'rous, active, brave, Are now to grapple with ignoble foes In war unskilful, nature's basest dross, And thence a monarch's mercenary slaves. ---Leonidas. Acts. THE seventh day of Elul, is a feast with the Jews, in memory of the dedication of the wall (city) of Jerusalem, by Nehemiah, son of Hachaliah, in the twenty-first year of Artaxerxes Longimanus, B. C. 445. The immortal action in the pass of THERMOPYLE is placed upon this day; corresponding with (according to Herodotus) the time of the Olympic and Carneian games, in the year when Euripides was born, B. C. 480. There was a skirmish also with the Grecian fleet, at Artemisium. Diodorus fixes the victory of Gelon, under the walls of Himera, in Sicily, upon the same day. come, Herod Agrippa, the great builder, whose expenses exceeded his infor his generosity was boundless, saith Josephus; but his death (like his grandfather's) was terrible, and his departure commemorated with libations, A.D. 44. Even the images of his daughters (their persons, saith Photius) were most indecently abused by the objects of his loose prodigality. The scourges of mankind have evidently been cut off with their vices. Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, lands at Milford Haven, 1485. Dr. Matthew Tindal, the infidel, by his will, 1733, signed before the woman in whose house he was living, and Samuel Tuckey, a servant of his legatee, bequeaths to Eustace Budgell, the sum of £2,100, and all his MSS. that his great talents may serve his country.' The miserable catastrophe of Budgell is well known. The French Chamber of Deputies assemble, and taking into consideration the existing situation of the kingdom, the result of the 'heroic resistance' at Paris, DECLARE, that the French throne was at that moment vacant de facto et de jure; and that, upon condition of accepting the provisions of the Constitutional Charter, which the late King had violated, the universal and pressing interest of the people had called to the throne Philippe, Duke of Orleans, and his male descendants for ever, 1830. Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Sacred History. |