Chapter Spottiswood to Stanley of S by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

accuracy of detail or philosophical views. His masterpiece is his Life of Dr. Arnold, which is one of the great biographies in the language. His wife was Lady Augusta Bruce, to whom he was married in 1868.

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904).—Traveller in Africa, born in America, went to find, and found, Livingstone, and wrote an account of his adventures in the quest, How I found Livingstone. Other works were In Darkest Africa and Through the Dark Continent.

Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678).—Philosopher and scholar, connected with the Derby family, ed. at Cambridge, was the author of some poems and of a biographical History of Philosophy (4 vols., 1655-62). He was learned in the classics, and translated from the Latin and late Greek as well as from the Italian and Portuguese, and edited Æschylus. His poetry is thoughtful and gracefully expressed. Stanyhurst, Richard (1547-1618).—Translator, was at Oxford, and studied law at Furnivall’s Inn and Lincoln’s Inn. He collaborated with Holinshed (q.v.). His principal literary achievement was a grotesquely stiff, clumsy, and prosaic translation of the first four books of the Æneid into English hexameters. He also translated some of the Psalms.