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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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Famous Walter Raleigh (professor) Quotes

“God's most candid critics are those of his children whom he has made poets.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

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.

“I wish I loved the human Race,
I wish I loved its silly face,
I wish I liked the way it walks,
I wish I liked the way it talks,
And when I'm introduced to one,
I wish I thought "what jolly fun!"”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

Poem, "Thoughts of an Old Man"

“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.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

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

“The actions that move the world have been prompted and inspired by dreams and visions. The search for the philosopher's stone laid the foundations of modern chemistry; modern travel and geography owe their chief advances to the search for the fabled realm of Cathay.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

p. 15 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002032470974;view=1up;seq=31 <br class="br">English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century (1906)

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

Walter Raleigh (professor)

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

“Because he had seen much of life, his last and greatest work, The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, is more than a collection of facts: it is a book of wisdom and experience, a treatise on the conduct of life, a commentary on human destiny.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

p. 26 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b325850;view=1up;seq=32 <br class="br">Six Essays on Johnson (1910)

Walter Raleigh (professor) Quotes

“The topics of The Rambler are many, but the great majority of them are drawn from the graver aspects of life, and it is when he treats of fundamental duties and inevitable sorrows, bereavement, and disease, and death, that Johnson rises to his full stature.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

p. 15 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b325850;view=1up;seq=21 <br class="br">Six Essays on Johnson (1910)

“The sense of liberty and power, and of belief in the capacity and destiny of man, which was quickened by the new discoveries, distinguishes the literature of the Elizabethan age from the great backward-looking periods of romance. It is a literature of youth and hope, with none of the subtle and poignant flavours that are to be tasted in a literature of regret and memory.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

p. 174 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002032470974;view=1up;seq=190 <br class="br">English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century (1906)

“Over and against the plays of Shakespeare and his fellows, as their natural counterpart, must be set the Voyages of Hakluyt; he who would understand the Elizabethan age, and what it meant for England, must know them both.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

p. 151 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002032470974;view=1up;seq=167 <br class="br">English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century (1906)

“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.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

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

“Almost all men are less humorous than Shakespeare; but most men are more humorous than Milton, and these, it is to be feared, having suffered themselves to be dragooned by the critics into professing a distant admiration for Paradise Lost, have paid their last and utmost tribute to the genius of its author.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

Milton https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031297644;view=1up;seq=23 (1900), p. 7

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

Walter Raleigh (professor)

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

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