Bernard Barton and his friends: a record of quiet lives

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

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"'•'' ?Aii'.i>?.ut no Poet. ; ; AND HIS FRIENDS. 63 the of ideality andequally furnished with bumps causality : which, as Bacon would say, are the two extreme poles on 'which the perfect sound and roundabout ' intellect is balanced. A great deficiency of the causality bump causes me to break short in a long discussion which I meant to with on thishave favoured you subject. I hope to meet much him.your Brother one of these days : and to learn from Several of Bernard's poems are addressed and IVtdoivs Taleto John Barton, A (1827) inscribed him with thiswas affectionately to quatrain : father's name in theeThou bear'st our ; talents liveHis worth and Canst thou need more—to claim from me The little I can give ? Barton's earliestOne of Bernard Wood- William Hamilton Finnie,bridge friends was who was for many years barrack-master in the town. At one time the two men were almost inseparable. At this late day it is difficult to get personal facts about Mr. Finnie, but there can be no doubt that he was a notably good man. ''In the footnote added to Stanzas composed while walking the Warren Hill," withinon sight of Mr. Finnie's grave, Bernard Barton no less respected fordescribes him as "a man the uprightness of his character than beloved for "his social qualifications ; and in the lines that follow the poet thus addresses his dead friend : Silent and sad is the place of thy rest, Where thou sleep'st the last slumber decreed thee But well I remember, when warm was that breast.

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 43
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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?.ut no Poet. ; ; AND HIS FRIENDS. 63 the of ideality andequally furnished with bumps causality : which, as Bacon would say, are the two extreme poles on 'which the perfect sound and roundabout ' intellect is balanced. A great deficiency of the causality bump causes me to break short in a long discussion which I meant to with on thishave favoured you subject. I hope to meet much him.your Brother one of these days : and to learn from Several of Bernard's poems are addressed and IVtdoivs Taleto John Barton, A (1827) inscribed him with thiswas affectionately to quatrain : father's name in theeThou bear'st our ; talents liveHis worth and Canst thou need more—to claim from me The little I can give ? Barton's earliestOne of Bernard Wood- William Hamilton Finnie,bridge friends was who was for many years barrack-master in the town. At one time the two men were almost inseparable. At this late day it is difficult to get personal facts about Mr. Finnie, but there can be no doubt that he was a notably good man. ''In the footnote added to Stanzas composed while walking the Warren Hill," withinon sight of Mr. Finnie's grave, Bernard Barton no less respected fordescribes him as "a man the uprightness of his character than beloved for "his social qualifications ; and in the lines that follow the poet thus addresses his dead friend : Silent and sad is the place of thy rest, Where thou sleep'st the last slumber decreed thee But well I remember, when warm was that breast." />

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