Word: sir
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland gave the second of his four lectures on "English Worthies" yesterday in the Fogg Art Museum. The subject was Sir Thomas Browne...
...account of the slight acquaintance which most persons, even most cultivated persons, have with the life and writings of Sir Thomas Browne, Mr. Copeland began his lecture with an unusually full comment upon the life and surroundings of this writer. Browne, although the son of a London merchant, was of gentle descent on both sides of the house. His father's comfortable fortune enabled him to send his son to school at Winchester. He afterward took the Bachelor's Degree at Oxford and as the result of study at Montpelier, Padua, and Leyden received the degree of Doctor of Physic...
...lecturer stated briefly the general character of "Religio Medici," "Vulgar Errors," Urn Burial," "A Letter to a Friend," and, the most fantastic of all Browne's works, the "Garden of Cyrus." He commented upon the Latin origin of much of Sir Thomas's writings, upon its quaintness, its dignity, and-when it is at its best-the solemn music of its cadences. The distinguishing qualities of seventeenth century prose were brought out, or rather suggested, by a rough comparison of Browne with Bacon, Ralegh, Hooker, Isask Walton, and Jeremy Taylor, who is Browne's only equal in his most splendid...
...Copeland will deliver the second of his public lectures on literature this afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum at 3.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be "Sir Thomas Browne...
Lecture. Four English Worthies. II. Sir Thomas Browne. Mr. Copeland. Fogg Art Museum...