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DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846) , Irish poet, was born in Dublin in 1795. His parents, who were gentle folks of independent means, emigrated to America, leaving the boy in charge of his grandfather at Springfield , Co. Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 182o ; but an unfortunate stammer prevented him from going into the church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
or to the bar, and he established himself in London, where he published his first volume of poems, the Errors of Ecstasie, in 1822, and became a regular contributor to The London Magazine. He was intimate with Cary, the translator of Dante , and with Charles Lamb. In 1826 he published under the name of " Grey Penseval " a volume of prose tales and sketches, Labour in Idleness (1826), one of which, " The Enchanted Lyre," is plainly autobiographical. Sylvia, or the May Queen (1827, reprint 1892), a fairy opera, met with no success, but about 183o,he became dramatic and art critic to the Athenaeum . His other works are: Nepenthe (1835, reprint 1897), his most considerable poem ; introduction to the works of Beaumont and Fletcher (184o); with two plays,
Thomas See Also: - THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS,
ISAIAH (1749-1831) - THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
a Becket (184o), and Ethelstan (1841). He died in London on the 23rd of November 1846.
Selections from the Poems of George Darley , with an introduction by R. A. Streatfield, appeared in 1904. See also the edition by Ramsay Colles in the " Muses' Library " (1906).
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