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My Life as an Author

Chapter 7 PRIZE POEMS, ETC.

Word Count: 1780    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

of course I ought to know, but don't. A good-looking and well-speaking friend of mine, E. H. Abney, now a Canon, was so certain that the said prizes in those two successive years were to fall to me,

my pieces were afterwards printed; both separately, and among my "Ballads and Poems," by Hall and Virtue, and are now before me. As an impartial and veteran judge

a third class, was technically possible, if I could not stand a two days' ordeal of viva voce examination, part of the whole week then exacted. However, I did all at my best on paper, specially the translations from classic poets in verse: whereof I'll find a specimen anon. The issue of all was that I was offered an honorary fourth class,

as below from Virgil: there were also three odes of Horace, a

es, sing we l

marisk and wo

l; if woods an

worthy of a

byl's song, th

dispensations

orious order;

es, and Saturn

rom heaven's brig

ses, and all

avouring eye,

drous babe,-hi

the iron age

d rejoice in gold

that my public versifying was quite extempore, as in fact is common with me. For other college memories in the literary line, I may just mention certain brochures or parodies, initialed or anonymous, whereto I must now plead guilty fo

ford?-some smal

ng songster o

ll the insect

inter's devi

ells his ad

the chastened

eted substan

fty sound the car

ht on St. Mary's in the Hampden case,

ed oft, in false

s in flaming

lifts high hi

ween the livin

. Mary's pulp

of truth, wh

eep Charybdis

inus charm you

l, so not Sain

Scylla's rook, y

two from annihilation. Here is another little bit; this time from a somewhat vicious parody on my rival Rickard's prize poem: it is fairest to produce

om which snatched

on to him whose

s restless spi

ch eye had neve

is said, in West

ernal to th

perils seemed

im shrunk back

hetic poured th

eam, though doome

heard; by Nige

ay the speechle

eam his glisteni

wn,-the wayworn

ker; the prize-loser ven

doom that didd

lpably obsc

throat, for wa

long'd and pray

s said, that no o

rnal; guessi

thousand had he

m, were sure tha

hetic poured th

stream,-if it

eard, of course,

Niger never fl

own is, that a

transport by a

ng on't his gl

own, and so th

at Garbet really did utter the words quoted,-and the an

ead Dante!'-Ne

, Williams,-I-

t went on with a further question neverthel

language love

not, thy char

youth retorts wi

e is the langua

onclusion being that intoning monks found out how easily the cases of Latin nouns and tenses of verbs, &c., jingled with each other, and that troubadours and trouveres carried thus the seeds of song all over Europe in about the ninth century, until which time rhythm was the only recognised form of versification, rhyme having strangely escaped discovery for more than four thousand years. Is it not a marvel (and another marvel that no one noticed it before) that not

quarto paper book. Therein are treated, from both the scriptural and the scientific points of view, many subjects, of which these are some: Cosmogony, miracles (in chief Joshua's sun and moon), the circulation of the blood revealed in Ecclesiastes, magnetism as mentioned by Job, "He spreadeth out the north over the empty space and hangeth the world upon nothing," the blood's innate vitality-"w

13, &c., about "making a god of a tree whereof he burneth part:" also such well-known lines as "Quid sit futurum eras, fuge qu?rere," and "Quis scit an adjiciant hodiern? crastina summ? Tempora Di superi?"-compared with "Take

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1 Chapter 1 PRELIMINARY.2 Chapter 2 INFANCY AND SCHOOLDAYS.3 Chapter 3 YOUNG AUTHORSHIP IN VERSE AND PROSE.4 Chapter 4 COLLEGE DAYS.5 Chapter 5 ORDERS AND LINCOLN'S INN.6 Chapter 6 STAMMERING AND CHESS.7 Chapter 7 PRIZE POEMS, ETC.8 Chapter 8 SUNDRY PROVIDENCES.9 Chapter 9 YET MORE ESCAPES.10 Chapter 10 FADS AND FANCIES.11 Chapter 11 SACRA POESIS AND GERALDINE. 12 Chapter 12 PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.13 Chapter 13 A MODERN PYRAMID.14 Chapter 14 AN AUTHOR'S MIND PROBABILITIES.15 Chapter 15 THE CROCK OF GOLD, ETC.16 Chapter 16 SOP SMITH.17 Chapter 17 STEPHAN LANGTON-ALFRED.18 Chapter 18 SHAKESPEARE COMMEMORATION.19 Chapter 19 TRANSLATIONS AND PAMPHLETS.20 Chapter 20 PATERFAMILIAS, GUERNSEY, MONA.21 Chapter 21 NEVER GIVE UP, AND SOME OTHER BALLADS.22 Chapter 22 PROTESTANT BALLADS.23 Chapter 23 PLAYS.24 Chapter 24 ANTIQUARIANA.25 Chapter 25 HONOURS-INVENTIONS.26 Chapter 26 COURTLY AND MUSICAL.27 Chapter 27 F.R.S.28 Chapter 28 PERSONATION.29 Chapter 29 HOSPITALITIES-FARNHAM, ETC.30 Chapter 30 SOCIAL AND RURAL.31 Chapter 31 AMERICAN BALLADS.32 Chapter 32 AMERICAN VISITS.33 Chapter 33 SECOND AMERICAN VISIT.34 Chapter 34 ENGLISH AND SCOTCH READINGS.35 Chapter 35 ELECTRICS.36 Chapter 36 THE RIFLE A PATRIOTIC PROPHECY.37 Chapter 37 AUTOGRAPHS AND ADVERTISEMENTS.38 Chapter 38 KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.39 Chapter 39 ORKNEY AND SHETLAND.40 Chapter 40 LITERARY FRIENDS.41 Chapter 41 A FEW OLDER FRIENDSHIPS.42 Chapter 42 POLITICAL.43 Chapter 43 A CURE FOR IRELAND.44 Chapter 44 SOME SPIRITUALISTIC REMINISCENCES.45 Chapter 45 FICKLE FORTUNE.46 Chapter 46 DE BEAUVOIR CHANCERY SUIT AND BELGRAVIA.47 Chapter 47 FLYING.48 Chapter 48 LUTHER.49 Chapter 49 FINAL.