Sidney Dark

thumb|Sydney Dark Sidney Dark Sidney Ernest Dark (14 January 1874 – 11 October 1947) was an English journalist, critic. editor, and author of more than 30 books in a variety of genres. In 1921 in London he was one of the founders of the PEN International PEN Club. Quotes In 1859 Smith, Elder & Co. Messrs. Smith and Elder founded the Cornhill Magazine, and Thackeray became its first editor. Among his contributors were Tennyson, Mrs. Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Browning, Mrs. Gaskell, Charles Lever Lever, Laurence Oliphant (author) Laurence Oliphant, Ruskin, Trollope, Herman Charles Merivale Herman Merivale, Adelaide Procter, Matthew Arnold, and Lord Lytton. William Makepeace Thackeray Little books on great writers Cassel & Company 1912 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ak3QAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA12 12 ... Dickens is to me a writer apart. I have been reading and re-reading his novels since I was six. I know his characters as I hardly know any of the men and women I have met in the flesh. Dickens is the novelist of the lettered and of the unlettered. The man at the street corner who has hardly heard of Thackeray knows all about Sam Weller (character) Sam Weller and Sarah Gamp Mrs. Gamp. Charles Dickens Folcroft Library Editions 1973 0841412006 https://books.google.com/books/about/Charles_Dickens.html?id=_bAdAAAAMAAJ (123 pages; reprint of the 1919 edition published by T.C. & E.C. Jack, a subsidiary of the Thomas Nelson (publisher) Thomas Nelson publishing firm) ... Wells has many affinities with Dickens. He does not possess Dickens's glorious humour. He has never been able to realise that even in mean streets life may have its thrills, but he belongs essentially, as Dickens belonged, to the English lower middle class. Wells is an articulate man of the people. And this is the fact that gives him his peculiar importance in the modern world. An Outline of Wells: The Superman in the Street G.P. Putnam's Sons 1922 0838316336 https://books.google.com/books?id=-cnniRhSoCwC&pg=PA4 4 (with a foreword by Heywood Broun) Great literature is the creation of its age and its nation. It is inconceivable that Shakespeare's plays could have been written anywhere but in England and at any time but the later Renaissance. ... But while great literature is the child of one age it is the father of the next. As a nation reads, so it becomes. Let me decide what the people shall read, and you may make their laws. In saying this I am not merely referring to social and political and philosophic treatises. I am thinking of the whole gamut of a library, and particularly of works of the imagination. The New Reading Public: A Lecture Delivered Under the Auspices of 'The Society of Bookmen' G. Allen & Unwin 1922 1646796160 https://books.google.com/books?id=xyY-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA6 6–7 (with a foreword by W. B. Maxwell) ... During the Renaissance Luther and Calvin played their great rôles, and it saw Loyola and the little understood counter-Reformation. At the beginning, Columbus and Da Gama make their voyages, and its later years were made romantic by the hazardous adventures of Martin Frobisher Frobisher and Drake. It was the age of the New Learning, an age of adventure, an age of criticism, an age of laughter, an age of reaction and rejection, of destruction and reconstruction, of glory for princes and of suffering for the common people. The Story of the Renaissance Doran's modern readers' bookshelf/Hodder and Stoughton's people's library George H. Doran Company 1924 https://books.google.com/books?id=NpwzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA14 14 In the early years of the eleventh century the Holy Roman Empire German emperors were masters of Rome. Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor Henry III., the father of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV., deposed three popes, no man saying him nay. The removal of the right of election from the Roman nobility to the College of Cardinals, however, brought to an end an system under which it was the Emperor who really decided who should sit on the papal throne, and Pope Gregory VII Gregory was determined that lesser ecclesiastical appointments should also be taken out his hand. In the complicated feudal system, bishops and abbots often held their lands as the vassals of a suzerain lord, compounding for the military service demanded from lay vassals. It was the habit, too, of the pious to endow monasteries and churches on the condition that they held the patronage. And, in one way and another, the noble, the prince, and the emperor claimed the right of ecclesiastical investiture which in effect meant the right of nomination to the offices of the Church. This lay patronage naturally led to simony, and it was the fashion for rich abbeys and attractive bishoprics to be sold to the highest bidder, to the scandal of the faithful and the hindrance of the work of the Church. St. Thomas of Canterbury Great English churchmen series Macmillan & Company 1927 https://books.google.com/books?id=xaFpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2 2–3 ... in condemning Elizabeth I Elizabeth it should be remembered that the statesmanship of intrigue of which she was a mistress has survived from her time to ours, and was not destroyed even by the World War I Great War. She was the pupil of Machiavelli, and she put the theories of the Italian political philosopher into more successful practice than any other sovereign or statesman in history. Queen Elizabeth Doran's modern readers' bookshelf/Hodder and Stoughton's people's library Hodder and Stoughton 1927 https://books.google.com/books?id=bYfSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA12 12 It is improbable that Wycliff had much to do personally with the preparation of the Wycliffe's Bible Wycliff Bible, the first version four years afterward. This was the first complete translation of the Vulgate into English, but it must not be supposed that before Wycliff's time the Scriptures had been altogether out of reach of the simple man with no understanding of Latin. It should be remembered that, in the Middle Ages, every one who could read, could read Latin. Before the era of the printing press translations were not as necessary as they are today. Five Deans: John Colet, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, William Ralph Inge Harcourt, Brace & Company 1928 https://books.google.com/books?id=RHwAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17 17 ... The Reign of Terror Terror had its Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville Fouquier-Tinville. The Bishops' Wars Stuart despotism had its George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys Judge Jeffreys. ... He drank prodigiously, even for the seventeenth century. He was subject to violent bursts of passion, and he had absolutely no self-control. He was the supreme bully. His greatest joy in life was to denounce, to jeer, and to hurt. And nature had eminently fitted him for the rôle that he had chosen. Jeffreys's one passion was a genuine hatred of Whigs (British political party) Whigs and English Dissenters Dissenters ... Judge Jeffreys 145–173 Twelve Bad Men Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1928 https://books.google.com/books?id=upkBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA145 (quote from pp. 145–146; portraits by Mabel Pugh) Joséphine de Beauharnais Josephine was with Hortense de Beauharnais Hortense at Lower Navarre Navarre at the time of the Napoleon#War of the Sixth Coalition first abdication in 1813. She went back to Château de Malmaison Malmaison at the request of the Nichllas I of Russia Czar Alexander, who assured her that the position of herself and her children was perfectly safe. The allied kings and statesmen waited on her. She was treated with the utmost deference, but it was she who grieved for Napoleon in Elba far more than Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma Marie Louise, and before the Hundred Days began, Josephine, shriven and with her children kneeling by her side, died with the name of Bonaparte on her lips. Twenty thousand persons passed the catafalque where the Empress lay in state. Royal honours were hers at her funeral. Josephine de Beauharnais 291–313 Twelve Royal Ladies Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1929 https://books.google.com/books?id=as48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA312 (quote from pp. 312–313; portraits by Mabel Pugh — Note: Sidney Dark has the wrong year for Napoleon's 1st abdication, which actually occurred in April 1814.) John Falstaff Falstaff, so Shakespeare relates, was often at the Boar's Head Inn, Eastcheap Boar's Head in Eastcheap, and there was the wonderful meetings of poets—Beaumont, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Shakespeare himself—at the famous Mermaid Tavern Mermaid on the south side of Cheapside. London Town The kitbag travel books G. G. Harrap 1930 https://books.google.com/books?id=7rQxAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=beaumont%2C+marlowe 18 Lawyers have never been popular. It will be remembered that although there is at least one lawyer in most of the Dickens novels, few of them are drawn as attractive personalities. London Macmillan & Company 1937 https://books.google.com/books?id=twTSAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=remem- 76 (176 pages; 55 illustrations; book written by Sidney Dark to accompany drawings of London done in 1908 by Joseph Pennell; 1st edition 1936) There is nothing in this wide world more romantic than a great river on the banks of which stands a great city, and of all the cities in Europe, London is luckiest in its river. The Seine at Paris, the Tiber at Rome, are insignificant compared to the wide sweep of the Thames at London. London 1942 https://books.google.com/books?id=ojLnUQysskYC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=tiber 155 Christianity is a revolutionary religion or it is nothing. Seven Archbishops Eyre & Spottiswoode 1944 https://books.google.com/books?id=61IAAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=easter+offerings 228 External links Category:1874 births Category:1947 deaths Category:Authors from England Category:Critics from England Category:Editors from England Category:Journalists from England