Walter Raleigh (professor) Quotes

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English scholar, poet, and author. Raleigh was also a Cambridge Apostle. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. September 1861 – 13. May 1922
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“God's most candid critics are those of his children whom he has made poets.”

Preface to Oxford Poetry for 1914 http://books.google.com/books?id=rRcGYxSyobsC&q=%22God's+most+candid+critics+are+those+of+his+children+whom+he+has+made+poets%22&pg=PAvii#v=onepage and 1914–1916 http://books.google.com/books?id=W5iRAAAAIAAJ&q=%22God's+most+candid+critics+are+those+of+his+children+whom+he+has+made+poets%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage.

“The measure of an author's power would be best found in the book which he should sit down to write the day after his library was burnt to the ground.”

p. 28 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b325850;view=1up;seq=34
Six Essays on Johnson (1910)

“The Dictionary, great work though it be, might have been successfully carried through by a merely mechanical genius.”

p. 33 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b325850;view=1up;seq=39
Six Essays on Johnson (1910)

Walter Raleigh (professor) Quotes

“Of all the notable Elizabethans, Sir Walter Raleigh is perhaps the most difficult to understand. He has the insolent imagination of Marlowe, and the profound melancholy of Donne.”

p. 110 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002032470974;view=1up;seq=126
English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century (1906)

“Definition and division are the watchwords of science, where art is all for composition and creation.”

Style https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=lK0VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41 (1897), p. 41

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