Denis Oliver Barnett : In Happy Memory; His Letters from France and Flanders, October 1914-August 1915 (Classic Reprint) (9780656098620)
Excerpt from Denis Oliver Barnett: In Happy Memory; His Letters From France and Flanders, October 1914-August 1915 Home and school had conspired to bring his natural gifts to a wonderful variety and excellence. From his early years - it might be truly said to have been his possession by double inheritance - he showed that instinctive feeling for beauty in words which lies at the root of scholarship; many of his older friends will recollect with what zest as a small boy he used to hear and repeat poetry. On such a soil a classical education was sure to bear its best fruits. His work in Latin and Greek was marked not only by extra ordinary facility but by imaginative power and real sympathy with the genius of language. Latin verse composition has been declared by an eminent scholar to be the supreme test of scholarship and it may confidently be left to good judges to decide whether the compositions included in this volume Will not bear comparison in their spontaneity and beauty with the best work in this kind. They certainly approach the ideal of being themselves Latin poetry and not merely renderings of English poetry into Latin. He had also the accomplishments which sometimes, though by no means invariably, go with classical scholarship. He wrote excellent humorous verse in English, and on occasion was a graceful and witty speaker. But though Dobbin loved books, he was never bookish He grew up with the splendid strength and physique which should belong to youth - well over six feet in height, broad in proportion, supple and fleet of foot; competent critics prophesied for him athletic distinction at the University equal to that which he had won at school. He had to the full the taste for sport and outdoor life natural to a healthy young Englishman. At home he learnt early to ride andswim and became an excellent shot. He enjoyed thoroughly a long tramp with his gun at Burnt Hill, or a day's wild duck shooting in the Essex marshes with his schoolmaster Mr. L. H. S. Mathews, between whom and his pupil existed one of those friendships which are the peculiar privilege of public school life. But he was not a mere sportsman any more than a mere athlete. His days among the lanes and heaths of one of the most beautiful of English counties had given him - though he rarely spoke of it a passionate love for the country side. His knowledge of Woodcraft was extraordinary; birds and animals had few secrets from him. He brought the same quick and accurate observation and the same sympathetic understanding to Nature as to books: and he did not go unrewarded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Hardback | 266 pages
- 152 x 229 x 16mm | 508g
- 08 Nov 2018
- Forgotten Books
- English
- 20 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
- 0656098627
- 9780656098620
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