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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ENGLISH Const. History.- The following books, unsoiled and in every way as good as new, for sale second hand: Hist. 11, Hallam, 2 vols., $1.00; Hist. 12, May, 3 vols., $2.50; Hist. 9, Pollock and Maitland, $6.50. Inquire at Thurston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 10/6/1897 | See Source »

...concluding instance of the three was that of Tennyson and Arthur Hallam. The friendship of these two young men has taken poetic shape in Tennyson's elegy, "In Memoriam." Mr. Copeland said a few words by way of comparing, or rather contrasting, "In Memoriam," and the two other most famous elegies in English,- Milton's "Gycidus" and the "Adonais" of Shelly; and he commented on the suggestion once made by a clever woman that, although literary ambition would have been more highly gratified by writing "Adonais," there is, nevertheless, a more complete expression of personal and intimate human feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. COPELANDS LECTURE. | 12/5/1895 | See Source »

...English Club will meet on Thursday, December 14, at 8 p. m., in Holworthy 17. Mr. Schofield will address the club on "Arthur Hallam's Poems." All past and present members of the club and the instructors in the English department are invited to attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Club. | 12/12/1893 | See Source »

...college, he never made any attempt for honors. He entered into a brilliant circle of friends, chief among them Arthur Hallam, and passed four glorious years. While there, he published his first book of poems, and though these were immature, yet they bespoke the coming poet. In 1833 and again in 1842 further poems were published. A new poet was recognized. The wealth, variety, sentiment, and music in his talent charmed the nation. Some of his poems were graceful, with dainty turns and quaint conceits; some shook off all elaborations, and sprang from the very soul of the poet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on Tennyson. | 11/29/1892 | See Source »

...knew that their children could not become great and noble men without a knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey. "A beautiful mirror of human life at its best," says some one of the Odyssey, and surely no better epithet can be applied to the great author than that which Hallam applied to Shakespeare, "thousand-souled," the thousand-souled Homer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Wright's Lecture. | 2/13/1890 | See Source »

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