Compositions for prizes at school and at University by E. W. B. Nicholson: 'Compositions for prizes at [Tonbridge] school, 1864-7'

Title

Compositions for prizes at school and at University by E. W. B. Nicholson: 'Compositions for prizes at [Tonbridge] school, 1864-7'

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. misc. d. 51

Summary

Compositions for prizes at school and at University by E. W. B. Nicholson: 'Compositions for prizes at [Tonbridge] school, 1864-7'. The compositions are:

Fol. 3. English poem, 'Chersonesus Cimbrica'

Fol. 18. Latin prose translation of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, bk. i. c. 10. § 4

Fol. 23. English essay, 'Is it the duty of a statesman to lead or to follow public opinion ?'

Fol. 38. English poem, 'Harold' (cp. 36103 fols. 37v, 44)

Fols. 72, 77. Greek prose translation of the narrative of the siege of Plataea in Smith's History of Greece

Fol. 82. translation into Greek verse of lines in Tennyson's 'Morte d'Arthur', beg. 'Then went Sir Bedivere the second time'

Fol. 87. Latin verse translation of lines in Campbell's 'Pleasures of Hope'

Fol. 92. Latin prose translation of passage in Addison's 'Spectator', no. 169

Fol. 96. English essay, 'European policy, its rise, progress and characteristics'

Fol. 130. English poem on 'The meeting of the French and English Fleets at Portsmouth, 1865'

Fol. 141. Greek prose translation of the concluding passage in Mr. Robert Lowe's second speech on the Reform Bill of 1866

Fol. 148. Greek verse translation of the lines in Milton's Samson Agonistes, beg. 'Boast not of what'

Fol. 155. passage from Arnold's History of Rome, ed. 1843, vol. iii. p. 118, translated into Latin prose

Fol. 162. Latin verse translation of lines from Pope's 'Temple of Fame', beg. 'The temple shakes'

Fol. 169. English essay, 'In a protracted struggle between a great man and a great nation, the resources and energies of the man must eventually succumb to those of the nation'

Fol. 187. English poem, 'The Atlantic cable'

Date

Written in 1864-1871 by E. W. B. Nicholson

Language

Multiple languages

English

Modern Greek (1453-)

Latin

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

19 Leaves