Dublin Translations Into Greek and Latin Verse (Classic Reprint)

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That he should at least have the chance to recom mend himself thereby to the good opinion of scholars, men of letters, and men of taste. In trinity college, dublin, verse-writing is not disused as a test Indeed, it never was more en couraged than it is now. But verse-writing does not, and never did, hold with us anything like the place which it used to hold in the Cambridge Tripos. Scholarships, Senior Moderatorships, even Fellowships, may be got with little or no skill in verse composition. But at all these examinations the marks are so allocated as to give a very considerable advantage to the skilful composer, and I think it would be difficult for a student to steadily maintain a position at the head of the.

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