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DENMARK 



but he had Christopher Wren to his deputy. In 

 1665 he married a young girl, who soon showed 

 such open favour to the Duke of York that the 

 poor poet became crazy for a few months. Soon 

 after his recovery his wife died suddenly, not 

 without suspicion of poison a charge , which 

 Pepys evidently believed. Denham's last years 

 were miserable betwixt poverty and the satires 

 of Marvell, Butler, and others. He died early in 

 1669, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His 

 Elegy on Cowley, written in the short interval 

 between recovery from frenzy and his death, is 

 one of his most successful poems, and is much less 

 obscure and laboured, ungrammatical, and over- 

 laden with tedious moralising, than usual. His 

 other works, as the Destruction of Troy, a para- 

 phrase of part of the JEneid, and especially his 

 satirical doggerel verses, are comparatively worth- 

 less. ' Nothing,' says Dr Johnson, ' is less exhilar- 

 ating than the ludicrousness of Denham ; he does 

 not fail for want of efforts ; he is familiar, he is 

 gross; but he is never merry.' His fame rests 

 securely on Cooper's Hill, but more securely still 

 on the commendations of Dryden, Pope, Swift, 

 and Johnson. He is especially eulogised for his 

 strength, as Waller is for his sweetness ; indeed, 

 Dryden's critical judgment stands expressed in the 

 words that Cooper's Hill 'for the majesty of its 

 style is and ever will be the standard of exact 

 writing. ' 



Denia, a port on the coast of the Spanish pro- 

 vince of Alicante, near Cape St Martin. It exports 

 grapes, raisins, and fruit, and has a population of 

 3623. 



Denina, CARLO GIOVANNI MARIA, an Italian 

 author, was born 28th February 1731, at Revello, 

 in Piedmont, studied at Turin, and in 1756 became 

 professor of Rhetoric in the university of Turin. 

 In 1777 he published anonymously at Florence his 

 Discorso suW Impiego delle Persone, in which he 

 sought to show how monks might be transformed 

 into useful members of society. This cost him his 

 chair, and caused his banishment. In 1782 he went 

 to Berlin on the invitation of Frederick the Great. 

 Here he lived for many years, and wrote many his- 

 torical works. In 1804 he dedicated to Napoleon 

 his Clef des Langnes (1804), and was in conse- 

 quence appointed imperial librarian at Paris, where 

 he died 5th December 1813. Denina's principal 

 works are Delle Rivoluzioni d 'Italia (3 vols. 1770) 

 and Storia ddV Italia Occidentale (6 vols. 1810), 

 besides works on ancient Greece, Frederick the 

 Great, and Prussia. 



Denis, ST, the traditional apostle of France and 

 first Bishop of Paris, who suffered martyrdom in the 

 3d century. He was sent from Rome about 250 to 

 preach the gospel to the Gauls. After various 

 detentions at Aries and other places, he arrived 

 in Paris, where he made numerous proselytes. 

 The Roman governor of this part of Gaul ordered 

 Denis to be brought before him, along with other 

 two Christians. As they continued firm in their 

 faith, in spite of threats, they were cruelly 

 tortured, and afterwards beheaded, in 272 or in 

 290. Gregory of Tours, Fortunatus, and the Latin 

 martyrologists, state that the bodies of the three 

 martyrs were thrown into the Seine, but were 

 recovered and buried by a Christian woman. At a 

 later period, a chapel was built over their tomb. 

 In 636 King Dagobert founded on the spot an 

 abbey, called St Denis, which soon grew to be one 

 of the richest and most important in the whole 

 kingdom, and was long the sepulchre of the French 

 kings. The collection entitled the Acts of St Denis, 

 written about the end of the 7th or beginning of 

 the 8th century, has no historical value. The 

 Greek Church identifies St Denis with Dionysius 



the Areopagite, first Bishop of Athens. The 

 Western Church celebrates his memory on the 9th 

 of October. For a long period his name was the 

 war-cry of the French soldiers, who charged or 

 rallied to the words ' Montjoye Saint-Denys !' 



Denison, JOHN EVELYN, for fourteen years 

 Speaker of the House of Commons, and afterwards 

 Viscount Ossington, was born 27th January 1800, 

 at Ossington, Nottinghamshire. Educated at Eton 

 and Christ Church, Oxford, he entered parliament 

 in 1823, and was a Lord of the Admiralty 1827-28. 

 In 1872 he retired from the Speaker's chair, and 

 shortly after was created Viscount Ossington. He 

 was a D.C.L. of Oxford ; and it was on his sugges- 

 tion that the Speaker's Commentary to the Bible 

 was undertaken. He died 7th March 1873. His 

 brother, GEORGE ANTHONY DENISON, Archdeacon 

 of Taunton, was born in 1805, and educated at 

 Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, in 1828 being 

 elected a Fellow of Oriel. In 1843 he became Vicar 

 of East Brent, Somerset ; in 1851 Archdeacon of 

 Taunton. In 1854 proceedings were taken against 

 him for heresy, contained in three sermons on the 

 Real Presence, and he was condemned to be deprived 

 of all ecclesiastical preferments ; but on appeal to 

 the Court of Arches and the Privy-council, this 

 judgment was quashed. He was a leader of the 

 High Church party, opposed secular education, and 

 advocated confession. He was chairman of the 

 Committee of Convocation which condemned Essays 

 and Reviews and Bishop Colenso's works, and 

 died 21st March 1896. See his delightful Notes of 

 my Life (2 vols. 1878-93). Other brothers were 

 Edward, Bishop of Salisbury (1801-54), and Sir 

 William Thomas, Governor of New South Wales 

 and Madras (1804-71). 



Dcninan, THOMAS, BARON, was born in 

 London, 23d February 1779, graduated at Cam- 

 bridge, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1806. He 

 was associated with Brougham in the courageous 

 defence of Queen Caroline (1820), and shared his 

 consequent popularity. He sat in parliament from 

 1818-26, and was Attorney-general in Earl Grey's 

 administration in 1830-32 ; he succeeded Lord 

 Tenterden as Lord Chief-justice of England in 1832, 

 and was raised to the peerage in 1834. He retired 

 from the bench in 1850, and died 22d September 

 1854. See Memoir by Sir Joseph Arnould (2 vols. 

 1873). His fourth son, the RIGHT HON. GEORGE 

 DENMAN, was born 23d December 1819, studied at 

 Cambridge, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1846. He 

 represented Tiverton in parliament in 1859-65 and 

 1866-72 ; in 1872 he was raised to the bench of 

 the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1873 he became 

 a judge of the High Court of Judicature. He 

 retired in 1893, being made a Privy Councillor, and 

 died 21st September" 1896. 



Denmark (Dan. DanmarJc], the smallest of 

 the three Scandinavian kingdoms, consists of the 

 peninsula of Jutland and a group of islands in the 

 Baltic, and is situated between 54 33' and 57 45' 

 N. lat., and 8 4' and 12 34' E. long., excepting 

 the small island of Bornholm, which lies in 15 10' 

 E. long. Denmark is bounded on the N. by the 

 Skagerrak ; on the E. by the Cattegat, the Sound, 

 and the Baltic ; on the S. by the Baltic, Little Belt, 

 and Sleswick ; and on the W. by the North Sea. 

 The area of Denmark Proper is a little less, the 

 population a little more, than half that of Scotland. 

 The population of Denmark Proper in 1870 was 

 1,784,741; in 1890 it had increased to 2,182,380. 

 In 1890 the population of Copenhagen was 312,859 

 (with suburbs, 375,251); and there were besides 

 five Danish towns with more than 10,000 inhabit- 

 antsviz., Aarhuns (33,308), Odense (30,277), 

 Aalborg (19,503), Horsens (17,290), and Randers 

 (16,617). 



