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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAMBRIDGE, AND FIRST PERIOD OF AUTHORSHIP. 1st October, 1805, on the advice of Dr. Drury, Byron was removed to Trinity College, Cambridge, and kept up ' a connexion with the University for less than three years of very irregular attendance, during which we hear nothing of his studies, except the contempt for them expressed in some of the least effective passages of his early satires. He came into residence in bad temper and low spirits. His attachment to Harrow characteristically redoubled as the time drew near to leave it, and his rest was broken for the last quarter, with counting the hours that remained. He was about to start by himself, with the heavy feeling that he was no longer a boy, and yet, against his choice, for he wished to go to Oxford. The Hours of Idleness, the product of this period, are fairly named. He was so idle as regards problems mathe- matic, and barbarous Latin, that it is matter of surprise to learn that he was able to take his degree, as he did in March, 1808. A good German critic, dwelling on the comparatively narrow range of studies to which the energies of Cambridge were then mainly directed, adds somewhat rashly, that English national literature stands for the most part beyond the range of the academic circle.This statement is often reiterated with persistent inaccuracy; but the most casual reference to biography informs us that at least four-fifths of the leading statesmen, reformers, and philosophers of England, have been nurtured within the walls of her universities, and cherished a portion of their spirit. From them have sprung the intellectual fires that have, at every crisis of our history, kindled the nation into a new life; from the age of Wycliffe, through those of Latimer, Locke, Gibbon, Macaulay, to the prese...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217692021 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217692028 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $20.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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