. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. lSwinburne, was born in Lon-don in 1837. He entered Balliolcollege, Oxford, in 1857, but left itwithout taking a degree. Up to1865 he had pub
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. lSwinburne, was born in Lon-don in 1837. He entered Balliolcollege, Oxford, in 1857, but left itwithout taking a degree. Up to1865 he had published the follow-ing plays: The C^ueen Mother, Kosamond, Atalanta inCalydon, and Chastelard. In 1866 he published a volume ofPoems and Ballads, which was bitterly criticised, and inaugu-rated a literary warfare, resulting in one volume by W. , and a rejoinder by Swinburne. Since then the latterhas published A Song of Italy, William Blake, Siena, some*Notesonthe Koyal Academy Exhibition of 1868, Ode on theProclamation of the French Republic (September 4, 1870), SongsBefore Sunrise (a {^lorillcation of pantheism and reijublicanism), Bothwell (a tragedy), Essays and Studies, A Note on Char-lotte Bronte, George Chapman (a critical essay), Erechtheus(a play). In addition to his other works, he edited Christabel,and the Lyrical and Imaginative Poems of Samuel T. Coleridge, theworks of George Chapman, and a seconti series of Poems VIRGIL. jHE greatest of the Roman poets, Publius Virgilius (or Vergiliue)Maro Virgil, was born at Andes, near Mantua, Italy, seventyyears before Christ, and was educated at Cremona, Milan, andNaples. In his thirtieth year he visited Rome, seeking to obtain therestoration of his lands, which the soldiers of Augustus had seizedafter the battle of Philippi. Augustus granted him the necessarypapers of restoration, but on bis return Virgil was compelled toswim across the Mincio river in order to save his life. Anothermandate was granted by
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