Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the phylogenetic order Procellariiformes .
24-490: Up and down! - up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow’s crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The stormy petrel finds a home, - A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea. O’er the deep! - o’er the deep! Where the whale and the shark and the sword-fish sleep, - Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain! From "The Stormy Petrel" poem by Barry Cornwall Petrels are
48-655: A paraphyletic group of marine seabirds, sharing a characteristic of a nostril arrangement that results in the name "tubenoses". Petrels include three of the four extant families within the Procellariiformes order, including the Procellariidae (fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters), Hydrobatidae (Northern storm petrel), and the Oceanitidae (Austral storm petrel). The other Procellariiformes order are
72-524: A bed where none shall know. The world is cruel, the world is untrue; Our foes are many, our friends are few; No work, no bread, however we sue! What is there left for me to do, But fly, - fly From the cruel sky, And hide in the deepest deeps, - and die? By Barry Cornwall The Stormy Petrel A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on
96-512: A collection by Cornwall to a fellow author, Mrs. Ishimova , suggesting that she should translate some poems selected by him. William Makepeace Thackeray dedicated Vanity Fair to B. W. Procter. Wilkie Collins dedicated The Woman In White to B. W. Procter. Thomas Hardy became acquainted with Procter's widow, their friendship is mentioned several times in The Early Life of Thomas Hardy (1840-1891) . Lunatic Lunatic
120-484: A small property, and soon after entered into partnership with a solicitor; but in 1820 the partnership was dissolved, and he began to write under the pseudonym of " Barry Cornwall ". After his marriage in 1824 to Miss Skepper, daughter of Mrs Basil Montague, he returned to his profession as a conveyancer , and was called to the bar in 1831. In the following year he was appointed metropolitan commissioner of lunacy —an appointment annually renewed until his election as one of
144-557: A tragedy performed at Covent Garden with Macready , Charles Kemble and Miss Foote in the leading parts (1821), The Flood of Thessaly (1823) and English Songs (1832). He was also the author of Effigies poetica (1824), Life of Edmund Kean (1835), Essays and Tales in Prose (1851), Charles Lamb; a Memoir (1866), and of memoirs of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare for editions of their works. A posthumous autobiographical fragment with notes of his literary friends, of whom he had
168-518: A wide range from William Lisle Bowles to Robert Browning , was published in 1877, with some additions by Coventry Patmore . The Mother's Last Song Sleep! - The ghostly winds are blowing! No moon abroad, no star is glowing; The river is deep, and the tide is flowing To the land where you and I are going! We are going afar, Beyond moon or star, To
192-471: Is a term referring to a person who is seen as mentally ill , dangerous , foolish , or crazy —conditions once attributed to "lunacy". The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck". The term "lunatic" derives from the Latin word lunaticus , which originally referred mainly to epilepsy and madness , as diseases thought to be caused by the moon. The King James Version of
216-653: The Commissioners in Lunacy constituted by the Lunacy Act 1845 . He resigned in 1861. Most of his verse was composed between 1815, when he began to contribute to the Literary Gazette , and 1823, or at latest 1832. His daughter, Adelaide Anne , was also a poet. His principal poetical works were: Dramatic Scenes and other Poems (1819), A Sicilian Story (1820), Marcian Colonna (1820), Mirandola ,
240-657: The National Health Service Act 1946 . On December 5, 2012, the US House of Representatives passed legislation approved earlier by the US Senate removing the word "lunatic" from all federal laws in the United States. President Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Language Act of 2012 into law on December 28, 2012. "Of unsound mind" or non compos mentis are alternatives to "lunatic",
264-741: The albatross family, Diomedeidae. The word petrel (first recorded in that spelling 1703) comes from earlier ( ca. 1670) pitteral ; the English explorer William Dampier wrote the bird was so called from its way of flying with its feet just skimming the surface of the water, recalling Saint Peter 's walk on the sea of Galilee (Matthew xiv.28); if so, it likely was formed in English as a diminutive of Peter (< Old French : Peterelle (?) > Late Latin : Peterellus < Late Latin : Petrus < ‹See Tfd› Greek : Πέτρος , translit. Petros < ‹See Tfd› Greek : πέτρα , translit. petra = "stone"). All
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#1732780100265288-568: The Bible records "lunatick" in the Gospel of Matthew , which has been interpreted as a reference to epilepsy. By the fourth and fifth centuries, astrologers were commonly using the term to refer to neurological and psychiatric diseases. Pliny the Elder argued that the full moon induced individuals to lunacy and epilepsy by effects on the brain analogous to the nocturnal dew . Until at least 1700, it
312-411: The base of the wave to the billow’s crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The stormy petrel finds a home, - A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them spring At once o’er the waves on their stormy wing! O’er the deep! - o’er the deep! Where
336-528: The highest possible praise to his friend's Dramatic Sketches when he said that had he found them as anonymous manuscript in the Garrick Collection he would have had no hesitation about including them in his Dramatic Specimens . He was perhaps not an impartial critic. "Barry Cornwall's" songs have caught some notes from the Elizabethan and Cavalier lyrics, and blended them with others from
360-402: The land where the sinless angels are! I lost my heart to your heartless sire ('T was melted away by his looks of fire), Forgot my God, and my father's ire, All for the sake of a man's desire; But now we'll go Where the waters flow, And make us
384-574: The leading poets of his own time; and his dramatic fragments show a similar infusion of the early Victorian spirit into pre- Restoration forms and cadences. The results are varied, and lack unity, but they abound in pleasant touches, with here and there the flash of a higher, though casual, inspiration. Rather unknown outside Britain in his times and largely considered to be imitator of greater romantic authors, Barry Cornwall however inspired Alexander Pushkin to some translations and imitations in 1830. Just hours before his last duel in 1837 Pushkin sent
408-539: The members of the order are exclusively pelagic in distribution—returning to land only to breed. The family Procellariidae is the main radiation of medium-sized true petrels , characterised by united nostrils with medium septum, and a long outer functional primary feather. It is dominant in the Southern Oceans , but not so in the Northern Hemisphere. It includes a number of petrel groups,
432-496: The most conspicuous term used for insanity in the law in the late 19th century. The term lunatic was sometimes used to describe those who sought to discover a reliable method of determining longitude (before John Harrison developed the marine chronometer method of determining longitude , the main theory was the Method of Lunar Distances , advanced by Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne ). The artist William Hogarth portrayed
456-507: The relationships between which have finally been resolved to satisfaction. The families Oceanitidae and Hydrobatidae are the storm petrels , small pelagic petrels with a fluttering flight which often follow ships. The family Pelecanoididae is the four species of diving petrels , genus Pelacanoides . These are auk -like small petrels of the southern oceans. Barry Cornwall Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall ) (21 November 1787 – 5 October 1874)
480-414: The roaring sea, - From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. The sails are scattered abroad like weeds; The strong masts shake like quivering reeds; The mighty cables and iron chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, - They strain and they crack; and hearts like stone Their natural, hard, proud strength disown. Up and down! - up and down! From
504-460: The whale and the shark and the sword-fish sleep, - Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain; For the mariner curseth the warning bird Which bringeth him news of the storm unheard! Ah! thus does the prophet of good or ill Meet hate from the creatures he serveth still; Yet he ne’er falters, - so, petrel, spring Once more o’er the waves on thy stormy wing! By Barry Cornwall Charles Lamb gave
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#1732780100265528-637: Was also a common belief that the moon influenced fevers, rheumatism, episodes of epilepsy and other diseases. In the jurisdiction of England and Wales , the Madhouses Act 1774 originated what later became Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy , under the Madhouses Act 1828. The Lunacy Acts 1890–1922 referred to "lunatics", but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to "person of unsound mind", an expression which
552-420: Was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. Born at Leeds , Yorkshire , he was educated at Harrow School , where he had for contemporaries Lord Byron and Robert Peel . On leaving school he was placed in the office of a solicitor at Calne , Wiltshire , remaining there until about 1807, when he returned to London to study law . By the death of his father in 1816 he became possessed of
576-545: Was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by " mental illness ". "Person of unsound mind" was the term used in 1950 in the English version of the European Convention on Human Rights as one of the types of person who could be deprived of liberty by a judicial process. The 1930 Act also replaced the term "asylum" with "mental hospital" . Criminal lunatics became Broadmoor patients in 1948 under
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