Word: cowper
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...those days. One of these, the "Orion," had for its president Charles W. Eliot '53. In early intercollegiate regattas Harvard was usually the winner, but sometimes the prize even then went to Yale. After one of these defeats the officiating clergyman at morning prayers gave out the hymn by Cowper which ends...
...spirit in English Literature and with those who are commonly spoken of as marking the transition from what is characteristic of the eighteenth century to what is characteristic of the nineteenth. Among the writers discussed are Swift, Addison, Steele, Pope, Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Walpole, Gray, Cowper and Burns...
...cover the period from the death of Dryden to the publication of the Lyrical Ballads (1700-1708), and deals with those writers who may be regarded as marking the dominance of the classic spirit in English literature. Among the writers discussed will be Swift, Addison, Steele, Pope, Goldsmith, Fielding, Cowper, and Burns...
During the present year there have been added, besides numerous recent books, the works of Marryat, Henry Kingsley, George Meredith, Goldsmith, Edward Everett Hale, Hood, Lever, Gaborian, Burke, Chateaubriand, Cowper, Raleigh, Christopher North, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Stirling Maxwell, Besant, DeFoe, and Balzac...
...recent sale of the library of G. W. Wales in Boston the library committee of the Union secured 159 volumes, many of which are handsome and valuable. These include the works of Burke, Cowper, R. H. Dana, Geffrey, Raleigh, Christopher North, Jefferson and Stirling Maxwell, also Mahon's England, Groat's Greece, Nichols' Literary Anecdotes and many other standard works. The committee were enabled to make these purchases by several special gifts for the purpose,--$200 from W. Phillips '00, $40 contributed by undergraduates through R. Derby '03, and $25 given in memory of J. S. Tebbetts '80. The books...