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Title: Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Arthur, 1852-1940
Subjects: University of Cambridge Universities and colleges -- England History
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: OISE - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sun. But we may tolerate him for his Boswelliandevotion to his friend, and respect the acumen whichdetected the new light before it dawned on the worldat large. He belonged to the literary coterie whichgathered about Gabriel Harvey. Harvey, the Hobbinol of the Shepheards Calender,was originally of Christs, and took his B.A. degreethere a year after Spenser was admitted at Pembroke.Soon after his degree he became a fellow of Pembrokeand lectured on rhetoric, which, in his case, meantchiefly Cicero ; and, as Ciceronian scholarship required,he was well versed in Italian literature. If we areto accept the verdict of his enemy, Thomas Nash ofSaint Johns, he was an arrogant pedant; if we are tobelieve the testimony of some of the felloMS of Pem-broke, he was supercilious and unsociable. Theycomplained that he cut them in the streets, thathe was not familiar, like a fellow, and deserted theircompany round the fire in the combination room afterdinner and supper : perhaps it was to withdraw to
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SPENSER AND THE DRAMA 163 the company of Spenser and Kirke. One of his specialill-vvillers among the fellows was Thomas Nevile—magnificent Nevile, as Fuller calls him—afterwardsMaster of Trinity and builder of the hall and NevilesCourt there. He carried his malice so far as to non-placet the grace for Harveys M.A. degree. Poor Harvey ! His little mannerisms— the carryingup of his gown, his nice gait in his pantofflcs, theaffected accent of his speech —live still in the unkindportrait of Nash. Was he not the original of Pedantius, a concise and firking finical do fine schoolmaster,in the exquisite comedy in Trinity College ? Lethim deny that there was a Shew made at Clare Hall ofhim and his two brothers, not without reference tohis English hexameters, Taxra rantantara turba tumultuosa TrigonumTri-Harveyorum Tri-Harnionia. Harvey was a prig but not altogether a pedant, andhis power of attracting and influencing men youngerthan himself was not a quality which we associatewith a d

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