Compositions for prizes at school and at University by E. W. B. Nicholson: 'Compositions for prizes at [Tonbridge] school, 1864-7', Written in 1864-1871 by E. W. B. Nicholson

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Compositions for prizes at school and at University by E. W. B. Nicholson: 'Compositions for prizes at [Tonbridge] school, 1864-7'. The compositions are:

Fol. 3. English poem, 'Chersonesus Cimbrica'
Fol. 18. Latin prose translation of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, bk. i. c. 10. § 4
Fol. 23. English essay, 'Is it the duty of a statesman to lead or to follow public opinion ?'
Fol. 38. English poem, 'Harold' (cp. 36103 fols. 37v, 44)
Fols. 72, 77. Greek prose translation of the narrative of the siege of Plataea in Smith's History of Greece
Fol. 82. translation into Greek verse of lines in Tennyson's 'Morte d'Arthur', beg. 'Then went Sir Bedivere the second time'
Fol. 87. Latin verse translation of lines in Campbell's 'Pleasures of Hope'
Fol. 92. Latin prose translation of passage in Addison's 'Spectator', no. 169
Fol. 96. English essay, 'European policy, its rise, progress and characteristics'
Fol. 130. English poem on 'The meeting of the French and English Fleets at Portsmouth, 1865'
Fol. 141. Greek prose translation of the concluding passage in Mr. Robert Lowe's second speech on the Reform Bill of 1866
Fol. 148. Greek verse translation of the lines in Milton's Samson Agonistes, beg. 'Boast not of what'
Fol. 155. passage from Arnold's History of Rome, ed. 1843, vol. iii. p. 118, translated into Latin prose
Fol. 162. Latin verse translation of lines from Pope's 'Temple of Fame', beg. 'The temple shakes'
Fol. 169. English essay, 'In a protracted struggle between a great man and a great nation, the resources and energies of the man must eventually succumb to those of the nation'
Fol. 187. English poem, 'The Atlantic cable'