See also:BERNARD See also:BARTON (1784–1849)
, See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Carlisle on the 31st of See also:January 1784
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His parents were See also:Quakers, and he was commonly known as the Quaker poet
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After some experience of business, he became, in 1809, clerk to Messrs See also:Alexander's See also:bank at See also:Woodbridge, See also:Suffolk, and retained this See also:post till his See also:death
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His first See also:volume of See also:verse—Metrical Effusions—was published in 1812
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It brought him into See also:correspondence with See also:Southey, and shortly afterwards, through the See also:medium of a set of complimentary verses, he made the acquaintance of See also:Hogg
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From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time onwards to 1828 See also:Barton published various volumes of verse
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After 1828 hid See also:work appeared but rarely in See also:print, but his See also:Household Verses published in 1845 secured him, on the recommendation of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel, a See also:Civil See also:List See also:pension of £See also:loo a See also:year, f 1200 having already been raised for him by some members of the Society of See also:Friends
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Barton is chiefly remembered for his friendship with See also:Charles See also:Lamb, which arose, curiously enough, out of a remonstrance addressed by him to the author of Essays of Elia on the freedom with which the Quakers had been handled in that volume
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When Barton contemplated resigning his bank clerkship and supporting himself entirely by literature, Lamb strongly dissuaded him
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" Keep to your bank," he wrote, " and the bank will keep you." Barton died at Woodbridge on 19th See also:February 1849
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His daughter See also:Lucy married See also:Edward See also:FitzGerald
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See Poems and Letters of See also:Bernard Barton, selected by Lucy Barton, with a See also:biographical See also:notice by Edward FitzGerald (1849)
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