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VINCENT BOURNE (1695-1747)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 332 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VINCENT See also:BOURNE (1695-1747)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar, familiarly known as " Vinny " See also:Bourne, was See also:born at See also:Westminster in 1695 . In 1710 he became a scholar at Westminster school, and in 1714 entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He graduated in 1717, and obtained a fellowship three years later . Of his after-See also:life exceedingly little is known . It is certain that he passed the greater portion of it as See also:usher in Westminster school . He died on, the 2nd of See also:December 1747 . During his lifetime he published three See also:editions of his Latin poems, and in 1772 there appeared a very handsome See also:quarto See also:volume containing all Bourne's pieces, but also some that did not belong to him . The Latin poems are remarkable not only for perfect mastery of all linguistic niceties, but for graceful expression and genuine poetic feeling . A number of them are See also:translations of English poems, and it is not too much to say that the Latin versions almost invariably surpass the originals . See also:Cowper, an old See also:pupil of Bourne's, See also:Beattie and See also:Lamb have combined in praise of his wonderful See also:power of Latin versification . See an edition (184o) of his Poemata, with a memoir by See also:John See also:Mitford .

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