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Excerpt from Dublin Translations Into Greek and Latin Verse
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. 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.
