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me under the shadow of thy wings. Psalms. —For the 
laws of the distribution of shadows; see Optics. 
To SHA'DOW, v. a. [pcabepan, Saxon.] To cover with 
opacity. 
The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, 
So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground. Spenser. 
The Assyrian was a cedar with fair branches, and with a 
shadowing shroud. Ezeh. —To cloud ; to darken. 
Mislike me not for my complexion ; 
The shadow'd livery of the burning sun 
To whom I am a neighbour. Skakspeare. 
Why sad ?- 
I must not see the face I love thus shadowed. Beaum. and FI. 
To conceal under cover; to hide; to screen. 
Let every soldier hew him down a bough, 
And bear’t before him ; thereby shall we shadow 
The number of our host, and make discovery 
Err in report of us. 1 Shakspeare. 
To protect; to screen from danger; to shroud. 
God shall forgive your Coeur de Lion’s death, 
The rather, that you give his offspring life, 
Shadowing their right under your wings of war. 
Shakspeare. 
To mark with various gradations of colour, or light.— 
From a round globe of any uniform colour, the idea imprinted 
in our minds is of a flat circle, variously shadowed with dif¬ 
ferent degrees of light coming to our eyes. Locke. —To 
paint in obscure colours.—If the parts be too much distant, 
so that there be void spaces which are deeply shadowed, 
then place in those voids some fold to make a joining of the 
parts. Dry den.-— To represent imperfectly. 
Whereat I wak’d and found 
Before mine eyes all real, as the dream 
Had lively shadow'd. Milton. 
To represent typically.—The shield being to defend the 
body from weapons, aptly shadows out to us the continence 
of the emperor, which made him proof to all the attacks of 
pleasure. Addison. 
SHA'DOWGRASS, s. A kind of grass. 
SHA'DOWING, s. Shade in a picture; gradation of 
light or colour.—I like not praising, when ’tis too loud: a 
little is as shadowings to a well limned piece: it sets it off 
the better; but when it is too deep, it dulls the native life, 
and renders its air unpleasant. Fellham. 
SHA'DOWY, adj. [pceabjug, Sax.] Full of shade; 
gloomy. 
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Shakspeare. 
Not brightly luminous. 
More pleasant light 
Shadowy sets off the face of things. Milton. 
Faintly representative ; typical; unsubstantial; unreal.— 
Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy 
and fictitious nature, in the persons of sin and death; by 
which he hath interwoven in his fable a very beautiful alle¬ 
gory. Addison. —Dark; opaque. 
By command, ere yet dim night 
Her shadowy cloud withdraws, I am to haste 
Homeward. Milton. 
SHADOXHURST, a parish of England, in Kent; 4 miles 
south-west of Ashford. 
SHADWELL (Thomas), a dramatic writer, and poet- 
laureat to king William III., was descended of an ancient 
family in Staffordshire, and was born about the year 1640, 
at Lauton-hall, in Norfolk, a seat belonging to his father, 
who was bred to the law, but having an ample fortune did 
not practice, choosing rather to serve his country as a ma¬ 
gistrate. He was in the commission for three counties, viz., 
Middlesex, Norfolk and Suffolk, and discharged the duties of 
the office with distinguished ability, and the most perfect in¬ 
tegrity. In the civil wars he had been a considerable sufferer 
for the royal cause, so that having a numerous family, he was 
reduced to the necessity of selling and spending a consider¬ 
able part of his estate to support it. In these circumstances 
he resolved to educate his son to his own profession. He 
was sent for preparatory studies to Cains college, Cambridge, 
and was afterwards entered at the Temple, but becoming 
acquainted with some of the wits of that time, he deserted 
his profession and devoted himself to literature. It was not 
long before he became eminent in dramatic poetry, and he 
appeared before the public as the writer of a comedy en¬ 
titled “The sullen Lovers," or “ The Impertinents,” which 
was acted in the duke of York’s theatre, and in 1668 it was 
printed. The success of this piece encouraged the author to 
proceed, and he from this period rapidly brought out plays, 
chiefly of the comic kind, till he had reached the number 
of seventeen. His model was Ben Jonson, whom he imi¬ 
tated in drawing humorous characters, rather from his own 
conceptions than from nature; and though his name has not 
been transmitted to posterity with much encomium, and his 
works have long since disappeared from the stage, yet some 
of his delineations are said to display much real humour. 
Lord Rochester has given him a respectable place among his 
contemporaries; he says, 
“ None seem to touch upon true comedy. 
But hasty Shadwell and slow Wycherly.” 
As every one in those days was of necessity a party man, 
Shadwell ranked himself among the Whigs, and in conse¬ 
quence of this he was set up as a rival to Dryden. Hence 
there grew a mutual dislike between them, and upon the 
appearance of Dryderv’s tragedy, entitled the “ Duke of 
Guise,” in 1683, Shadwell was charged with having the 
principal hand in writing a piece, entitled “Some Reflections 
on the pretended Parallel in the Play, called the Duke of 
Guise, in a Letter to a Friend,” which was printed the same 
year. Dryden wrote a vindication of the Parallel, and a 
considerable storm was raised both against Shadwell and his 
friend Hunt, who assisted him in it, and who, on this occa¬ 
sion, was forced to fly into Holland. Dryden, by way of 
revenge upon Shadwell, wrote the bitterest satire against 
him that ever was penned; this was the celebrated Mac- 
Flecknoe. 
In 1688, Shadwell was appointed to succeed his rival 
Dryden in the laureatship, an honour which he did not enjoy 
many years. He died suddenly in the year 1692, in the 
fifty-second year of his age, at Chelsea, and was interred in 
the church there. Dr. Nicholas Brady preached his funeral 
sermon, in which he assures us, “ that the subject of his dis¬ 
course was a man of great honesty and integrity, and had 
a real love of truth and sincerity ; an inviolable fidelity, and 
strictness to his word ; an unalterable friendship wherever he 
professed it; and a much deeper sense of religion, than 
many others have who pretend to it more openly.” The 
titles of Shadwell’s plays are given in the Biographia Dra- 
matica. An edition of his works, consisting of those plays 
and miscellaneous poems, was printed in 1720, in four vols. 
8vo. The earl of Rochester, in speaking of Shadwell, says, 
“ If he had burnt all he had written, and printed all he 
spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any 
other poet.” 
SHADWELL, a parish of England, in Middlesex; 2§ 
miles east-by-south of St. Paul’s cathedral, London, and in¬ 
cluded within the bills of mortality. Here is a fine medicinal 
spring. The inhabitants are mostly employed in the sea¬ 
faring line. Population 9855. 
SHADWELL, a village of England, in Salop, south-west 
of Bishop’s Castle. 
SHADWELL, a hamlet of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5| miles north-north-east of.Leeds. 
SHA'DY, adj. [pceabpij, Sax.] Full of shade; mildly 
gloomy. 
The wakeful bird 
Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid 
Tunes her nocturnal note. Milton. 
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