Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . ostenthusiasm. The production of this piece gavegreat offence to his clerical brethren, and he wasfinallj compelled to retire from the ministry. Heretired into England, where he obtained the pro-tection of the Earl of Bute, and received a other di-amatic works ai-e Agis, Aquileia, TheFatal Discoivry, and Alonzo, every line of whichhas depai-ted from the memory of mankind. Hedied in 1808. It is difficult now to understand the enthusiasmwitli which Douglas was lirst greeted. It waspraised by men of all ranks, and Burns—wh
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . ostenthusiasm. The production of this piece gavegreat offence to his clerical brethren, and he wasfinallj compelled to retire from the ministry. Heretired into England, where he obtained the pro-tection of the Earl of Bute, and received a other di-amatic works ai-e Agis, Aquileia, TheFatal Discoivry, and Alonzo, every line of whichhas depai-ted from the memory of mankind. Hedied in 1808. It is difficult now to understand the enthusiasmwitli which Douglas was lirst greeted. It waspraised by men of all ranks, and Burns—who shouldhave lvno?\^^l better—talks of H. having jMcthodiscd wild Shakspeare into plan. This enthusiasm has departed long ago. StillDouglas contains pathos, and amid its florid decla-mation there may be found not a few natural touches,and it is on accoiint of these that it stdl haunts thestage in a shadowy kind of way. HOMELYN [Raia miraletus or macidata), aspecies of Bay (q. v.), common on the south coastof England, and plentiful in the London market,. Homelyn {Raia maculata). but comparatively rare on the east coast of form and apjiearance, it more nearly resemblesthe thornback than the skate. On some parts ofthe British coast, the H. is called Sand Bay. Itis also known as the Spotted Ray. HOMER, the greatest name in the history ofepic poetry, and who stands as high in that dej)art-ment as ShaJcspeare does in the drama, has comedown to us in modem times unfortunately as littlebetter than a name, and presents materials forbiography as scanty as those which he offers forcriticism are rich. We ai-e not, however, forced togo to such lengths of doubt in his case as Aristotledid in the case of Orpheus, denying that such a manever existed; for though the Germans, since thedays of Heyne, Wolf, and Niebuhr, have indulgedthemselves in every variety of historical scep-ticism, and reduced H., as well as Cadmus andHercules, to mere symbols, the more sober geniusof British
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