See also:CHARLES See also:STUART See also:CALVERLEY (1831–1884)
, See also:English poet and wit, and the See also:literary See also:father of what may be called the university school of See also:humour, was See also:born at Martley in See also:Worcester-See also:shire on the 22nd of See also:December 1831
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His father, the Rev
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See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Blayds, resumed in 1852 the old See also:family name of See also:Calverley, which his grandfather had exchanged for Blayds in 1807
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It was as See also:Charles See also:Stuart Blayds that most of the son's university distinctions were attained
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He went up to Balliol from See also:Harrow in 1850, and was soon known in See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford as the most daring and most high-spirited undergraduate of his 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
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He was a universal favourite, a delightful See also:companion, a brilliant See also:scholar and the playful enemy of all " dons." In 1851 he won the See also:Chancellor's See also:prize for Latin See also:verse, and it is said that the entire exercise was written in an afternoon, when his See also:friends had locked him into his rooms, declining to let him out till he had finished what they were confident would prove the prize poem
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A See also:year later he took his name off the books, to avoid the consequences of a See also:college escapade, and migrated to See also:Christ's College, See also:Cambridge
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Here he was again successful in Latin verse, and remains the unique example of an undergraduate who has won the Chancellor's prize at both See also:universities
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In 1856 he took second See also:place in the first class in the Classical Tripos
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He was elected See also:fellow of Christ's (1858), published Verses and See also:Translations in 1862, and was called to the See also:bar in 1865
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Owing to an See also:accident while See also:skating he was prevented from following up a professional career, and during the last years of his See also:life he was an invalid
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His Translations into English and Latin appeared in 1866; his See also:Theocritus translated into English Verse in 1869; See also:Fly Leaves in 1872; and Literary Remains in 1885
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He died on the 17th of See also:February 1884
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Calverley was one of the most brilliant men of his See also:day; and, had he enjoyed See also:health, might have achieved distinction in any career he See also:chose
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Constitutionally indolent, he was endowed with singular gifts in every See also:department of culture; he was a scholar, a musician, an See also:athlete and a brilliant talker
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What is See also:left us marks only a small portion of his See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, but his sparkling, dancing verses, which have had many See also:clever imitators, are still without a See also:rival in their own See also:line
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His humour was illumined by See also:good nature; his See also:satire was keen but See also:kind; his See also:laughter was of that human sort which is often on the See also:verge of tears
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Imbued with the classical spirit, he introduced into the making of See also:light verse the See also:polish and elegance of the See also:great masters, and even in its most whimsical See also:mood his verse is raised to the level of See also:poetry by the saving excellence of See also:style
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His See also:Complete See also:Works,• with a See also:biographical See also:notice by See also:Sir W
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J
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Sendall, appeared in 1901
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