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  2. William Johnson Cory - Wikipedia

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    He was born at Great Torrington in Devon, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a renowned master, nicknamed "Tute" (short for "tutor") by his pupils.After Eton, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship, [1] he studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844. [2]

  3. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College - Wikipedia

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    "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century ode by Thomas Gray. It is composed of ten 10-line stanzas, rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase "Ignorance is bliss". It occurs in the final stanza of the poem:

  4. Patrick Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington - Wikipedia

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    He was educated at Eton College and at Magdalen College, Oxford University. "In his younger days, as Patrick Barrington, he was a poet, publisher and puppeteer of delightful wit and ingenuity." "In his younger days, as Patrick Barrington, he was a poet, publisher and puppeteer of delightful wit and ingenuity."

  5. Algernon Charles Swinburne - Wikipedia

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    Swinburne attended Eton College (1849–53), where he started writing poetry. At Eton, he won first prizes in French and Italian. [4] He attended Balliol College, Oxford (1856–60), with a brief hiatus when he was rusticated [6] from the university in 1859 for having publicly supported the attempted assassination of Napoleon III by Felice ...

  6. Harold Acton - Wikipedia

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    During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated. He was born near Florence, Italy, to a prominent Anglo-Italian family. At Eton College, he was a founding member of the Eton Arts Society before going up to Oxford to read Modern Greats at Christ Church.

  7. 1747 in poetry - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College , published anonymously [2] (see quotation, above) Charlotte Lennox , Poems on Several Occasions [ 2 ] William Livingston , Philosophic Solitude; or, The Choice of a Rural Life , celebrating rural life and nature; the book would go through five printings in the author's life; English ...

  8. Cyril Alington - Wikipedia

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    An Eton Poetry Book (1925 – an anthology co-edited with George Lyttelton) More Eton Fables (1927) Elementary Christianity (1927) Doubts and Difficulties (1929) Cautionary Catches (1931 – verses in Latin and English) Christian Outlines: An Introduction to Religion (1932) Final Eton Fables (1933) Eton Faces Old and Young (1933) Lionel Ford (1934)

  9. James Kenneth Stephen - Wikipedia

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    James Kenneth Stephen was the second son of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, barrister-at-law, and his wife Mary Richenda Cunningham.Known as 'Jem' among his family and close friends, he was first cousin to Virginia Woolf (née Stephen), and shared with his cousin symptoms of bipolar disorder that would affect him increasingly in later life.