"Preface to the Elements of Architecture,"--_Sir Henry Wotton_.
SIR HENRY WOTTON, a famous English diplomatist, poet, and miscellaneous
writer, was born at Boughton, Malherbe, Kent, March 30, 1568, and died
at Eton, December, 1639. He wrote: "State of Christendom," "Poems,"
"Elements of Architecture," etc.
From the very beginning Freeman's historical studies were
characterized on the one hand by philosophical breadth of view,
and on the other hand by extreme accuracy of statement, and such
loving minuteness of detail as is apt to mark the local antiquary
whose life has been spent in studying only one thing. It was to
the combination of these two characteristics that the pre-eminent
greatness of his historical work was due.
"A Century of Science and other Essays,"--_John Fiske_.
JOHN FISKE, a renowned American historian, was born at Hartford, Conn.,
March 30, 1842, and died at Gloucester, Mass., July 4, 1901. He has
written: "Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy," "The Unseen World,"
"Darwinism," "American Political Ideas," "The Critical Period of
American History," "The Idea of God," "The American Revolution," "The
Beginnings of New England," "The Discovery of America," "Dutch and
Quaker Colonies in America" (1899), "Civil Government of the United
States," "The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War," "Old Virginia and
her Neighbors," 2 vols., etc.
(Et) le malheur est bien un trésor qu'on déterre.[3]
"Amour,"--_Paul Verlaine_.
PAUL VERLAINE, a celebrated French poet and story writer was born at
Metz, March 30, 1844, and died at Paris, January 8, 1896. He wrote:
"Saturnine Poems," "Gay Festivals," "Memoirs of a Widower," "Stories
Without Words," "Love," "Dedications," "Good Luck," "My Hospitals," etc.
When anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that
the offence cannot reach it.
--_Descartes_.
RENÉ DESCARTES, the illustrious French philosopher, was born at La Haye,
Touraine, March 31, 1596, and died at Stockholm, February 11, 1650. His
works include: "Discourse on Method," "Meditations in Elementary
Philosophy," "Philosophical Beginnings," "Dioptrique," "Meteors,"
"Geometry," "Treatise on the Passions," and "Letters to the Princess
Elizabeth."
The world in all doth but two nations bear--
The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere.
"The Loyal Scot,"--_Andrew Marvell_.
ANDREW MARVELL, a famous English poet and satirist, was born at
Winstead, Yorkshire, March 31, 1621, and died in London, August 18,
1678. He wrote: "The Nymph Complaining," "The Rehearsal Transposed,"
"Horatian Ode on Cromwell's Return from Ireland," and his well-known
"Poems on Affairs of State."
Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.
"Chronomoros,"--_Edward Fitzgerald_.
EDWARD FITZGERALD, a renowned English poet, was born at Bredfield House,
near Suffolk, March 31, 1809, and died June 14, 1883. Among his writings
are: "The Mighty Magician," "Six Dramas from Calderon," and "The
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám." These are all translations of foreign poems.
There's a joy without canker or cark,
There's a pleasure eternally new,
'Tis to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of China that's ancient and blue.
"Ballades in Blue China,"--_Andrew Lang_.
ANDREW LANG, a noted English poet, story-teller and literary critic, was
born at Selkirk, Scotland, March 31, 1844, and died in 1912. Among his
works are: "Letters to Dead Authors," "Helen of Troy," "Ballads and
Lyrics of Old France," "Custom and Myth," "Myth, Ritual, and Religion,"
"Ballades in Blue China," etc.