KKHLE, REV. JOHN. 



KKLLGREN, JOHAN HBNUIK. 



death ha* been attributed, though errootoatly, to the shock which hi 

 received from UM article in the ' Quarterly.' To recover hU hralth, 

 Krnt* travelled to Home, whr h died on the 24th of February 1831, 

 having previotuly published a third Tolume of poems, containing 

 ' Lamia." Isabella.' The Ere of St Agues.' and ' Hyperion.' 



The poetry of Keata is of ao exceedingly rich and luxuriant charac- 

 ter, and his writings are so crowded with images, that it at last 

 become* almost fatiguing to apprehend them. It seems as if his 

 imagination were of that volatile nature which must start off to every 

 idee, associated with his subject, and embody it as a part of the whole. 

 Hence the reader must put himself in the place of the poet, and allow 

 hit own imagination to fly from thought to thought, or the work will 

 seem but a compound of wild unconnected pictures. The article in 

 the ' Quarterly ' observed, that he introduced many images merely for 

 the sake of rhyme, and this remark is not wholly unjust. He did not 

 however like many poet*, merely write some common-place epithet or 

 sentence for the sake of rhyme ; but it seems as if his imagination was 

 so fertile, that a chiming word brought with it a new image suitable 

 to his purpose. Some have thought that time would have matured 

 his judgment and have improved him, but this is doubtful ; the wild 

 transition from thought to thought is the essence of his poetry, and 

 not a mere accident, and a cool inquiry into the aptness or connection 

 of his images would rather have injured him as a poet than have been 

 of advantage. 



In the sublime Keata is not so happy us in the wildly beautiful 

 In the fragment ' Hyperion,' despite 1U richness and wild luxuriance, 

 where we miss the exuberance, we also miss the brilliant fancies of the 

 ' Kmlymion,' while at the some time the attempt at sublimity is rather 

 an incutnbrance. It may in fact be said that the works of Keata are 

 adapted chiefly to those who are really of a poetical temperament, 

 and who have an imagination capable of following if not of creating ; 

 and to such they are highly stimulating and suggestive, as well as 

 eminently delightful To the readers who look for poetry as a pleasant 

 form of some clear and connected subject, who prefer authors that 

 rather anticipate their imagination than call it into violent action, 

 Kest's poems will be of comparatively little value. 



KKBI.E, THE REV. JOHN, at present and for a good number of 

 years past, vicar of Hursley in Hampshire a living worth 4401. a year 

 was born about the year 1790, and educated at Oriel College, Oxford, 

 where he highly distinguished himself and took his K.A. degree in 

 1810. A prize essay 'On Translation from the Dead Languages,' 

 recited by him in the Theatre of the University on the 10th of June 

 1812, was published at Oxford in the same year. After taking his 

 M.A. degree he devoted himself partly to literature and criticism, 

 though mainly to theology ; and for some years he filled the professor- 

 ship of poetry in the Uuivenity of Oxford. HU life however has been 

 passed principally in the unobtrusive discharge of big duties as a 

 parish-clergyman, in which office he is singularly assiduous, and in 

 occasional authorship as a poet and a theological and controversial 

 writer. 



Mr. Keble's chief poetical work, entitled 'The Christian Tear: 

 Thoughts in verse for the Sundays and Holidays throughout the Year ' 

 was published in two volumes at Oxford in 1827, while he still held 

 the poetry-professorship. It was followed by his ' Lyra Innocentium : 

 or Thoughts in verse on Christian Children, their ways and their 

 privileges,' also published at Oxford. These works, by their combina- 

 tion of poetical merits appreciable by all, with the spirit and language 

 of what is known as High Church theology, have given the author a 

 peculiar place among the English poets of the day. HU ' Christian 

 Year,' in particular, has been a great favourite with the lovers of 

 devotional verse, more especially with those who belong to that party 

 in the Church of England of which the author is one of the recognised 

 representatives. Both it and the 'Lyra Innocentium' have passed 

 through many editions. Mr. Keble's High Church sentiments however 

 have been manifested more expressly in his prose writings. One of 

 the original band of Oxford scholars and divines who began the 

 so-named "Puseyite" movement in the English Church, he contri- 

 buted, with Dr. Pusey, Mr. Newman, and others, to the famous ' Tracts 

 for the Times' (1834-36); and a special disquisition of his on one of 

 the subject* there treated the value of 'Primitive Tradition' in 

 theology, and its recognition by Scripture was published separately 

 with his name as Tract 78 (1837). Mr. Keble was also joint-editor, 

 with Dr. Pusey and others, of the ' Bibliotheca Patrurn Eculesue 

 Catholics?,' the publication of which began in 1838. Besides various 

 academic prelections held at Oxford between 1832 and 1841, he has 

 published not a few sermons on point* of High Church doctrine and 

 discipline, and one or two pamphlet* of a similar nature. A collection 

 of hU sermons under the title of 'Sermons Academical and Occa- 

 sional,' reached a second edition in 1848. He also published 'The 

 Children's Christian Year,' a nimilar work to the 'Christian Year,' but 

 adapted more particularly for children or young persons; and 'The 

 Psalter : or Psalms of David translated into English verse.' One of 

 hU latest publications entitled ' A very few plain thoughts on 

 the propofcd addition of Dissenter* to the University of Oxford' 

 (1864) exhibits him in hU characteristic aspect as a High Church 

 polemic. 



KK1I.I,, JOHN, a distinguished BritUh mathematician and natural 

 philosopher, was born at Edinburgh in 1071, and having received the 



rudiment* of education in that city, he completed his courts of study 

 in its university, of which the celebrated Dr. Gregory was then the 

 mathematical profettor. In 1694 he was entered in lUbol College, 

 Oxford, where he distinguUhed himself by the lectures which he 

 delivered in private on various subject* relating to natural philosophy, 

 principally from the works of Newton ; and in 1698 he publinh. d in 

 London ' An Examination of Dr. Buruet'i Theory of the Kiirth, with 

 some Remarks on Whiston's New Theory.' In tbU work Keill 

 pointed out, not without tome harshness, the error* into which thoao 

 theorist* had fallen ; and the severity of his strictures drew from each 

 of them a reply : it is evident however that the advantage in the 

 argument is on the side of Keill. In 1700 he wai elected a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society of London, and in the same year he succeeded Dr. 

 Millington as Sedleian professor of natural philosophy. Two years 

 afterwards he publuheii a work in Latin under the title of ' Intro- 

 ductio ad veram Physicam,' which was well received in thU country, 

 and was also much esteemed in France it being there considered as 

 an excellent key to the ' I'riucipia ' of Newton. An edition of it in 

 English was published in London in 1733, under the title of ' An 

 Introduction to Natural Philosophy,' &c. 



In 170!) Keill went to New England with the appointment of trea- 

 surer to the Palatine*, who were sent to America as emigrants at the 

 expense of the British government; these persons had been induced to 

 leave Germany, and were living in London in great poverty : he 

 returned however in the following year, and was immediately chosen 

 Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. In the year 1711 he waa 

 charged by Queen Anne with the duty of deciphering papers; and it 

 U mentioned as a proof of his sagacity that he once deciphered a letter 

 written in Swedish, though ho knew not a word of the language, lie 

 held this post about five years. 



In 1713 the University of Oxford conferred on him the degree of 

 Doctor in Physic ; and in that year he published an edition of Com- 

 mandine's 'Elements' of Euclid, with a tract on Ti igonoinetry, and 

 one on the Nature of Logarithms. In 1718 he published a work 

 entitled ' Introductio ad veram Astronoiniam,' which he afterwards 

 translated into English, and published in 1721 under the title of ' An 

 Introduction to the true Astronomy, or Astronomical Lectures 

 delivered at Oxford.' 



In the 'Philosophical Transactions' for 1708 there are two papers 

 by Keill, of which the first is entitled ' On the Laws of Attraction 

 and other Physical Principles,' and the other, ' Of the Laws of Centri- 

 fugal Force.' In the volume for 1713 there i a paper by him on 

 ' The Newtonian Solution of Kepler's 1'roblem,' &c. He also gave a 

 paper entitled ' Theoremata quojdam Infinitam Materiic Divisibilitatem 

 spectantia ;' and one which is designated ' Observations on Mr. John 

 Bernoulli's Remarks on the Inverse Problems of Central Forces, with 

 a New Solution of the Problems ;' both of these were published in 

 the ' Transactions' for 1714. 



Dr. Keill died September 1, 1721, in the fiftieth year of his age. 



A writer in the ' Acta Eruditorum ' having, in a notice of Newton's 

 Treatise on the Quadrature of Curves, stated that the English philo- 

 sopher had token the method of Fluxions from Leibnitz, the indignation 

 of Newton's friends was excited ; and in the paper on the Laws of 

 Attraction, &e., which, as above mentioned, was published in tho 

 ' Philosophical Transactions,' Keill formally asserted the claims of 

 Newton to priority in the discovery. This paper gave offence to 

 Leibnitz, who, in a letter to the secretary of the Royal Society, 

 required that Keill should be compelled to retract hU assertion : this 

 was not done; and Keill, in a letter to the secretary, detailed the 

 evidences of what he had stated. 



Dr. Keill waa not fortunate on another occasion. Entering into the 

 war of problems which was at that time carried on between the English 

 mathematicians and those of the Continent, he somewhat presumptu- 

 ously challenged John Bernoulli to determine the path of a body when 

 projected in a medium which exercised on it a resistance varying with 

 the square of the velocity : the challenge was accepted, and before 

 Keill could complete his own solution, Bernoulli announced that ho had 

 succeeded in obtaining one. Keill was, in consequence, com 

 to endure in silence the reproof which the foreign mathematician did 

 not fail, unsparingly, to administer. 



An edition, in Latin, of Dr. Keill's principal works was published 

 at Milan, in 1742, in 4to, under the title 'lutroductio ad veram 

 Physicam et Astronomiam (Huygenii Theoremata do Vi Centrifugu), 

 quibus accedunt Trigonometria; de Viribus Centralibus; de Legibus 

 Attractionis.' 



KELLOUEN, JOHAN HENRIK, a Swedish poet of great influence 

 on one period of the literature of his country, was born at Floby in 

 West Qothland on the 1st of December 1751 ; studied at the University 

 of Abo, which then belonged to Sweden; and in 1774 transferred 

 himself to Stockholm, where he established the newspaper ' Stockholm! 

 Posten.' At that time the Swedes were sedulous imitators of the 

 French ; in tragedy, as in everything else, French taste wa scrupu- 

 lously followed ; and the newly -rising German literature, and I'.nglish 

 literature of the time preceding Addison and Pope, were looked upon 

 as barbarous and unworthy of notice. In the ' tttockholtus Posten ' 

 these views were advocated with liveliness and ingenuity, and Kellgren 

 not only earned a high place in the public estimation as a critic, but 

 at a poet, chiefly by some lyrics remarkable for tho harmony of their 



