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BOURNE, VINCENT (1695-1747)

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BOURNE, See also:VINCENT (1695-1747) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, familiarly known as " Vinny " Bourne, was See also:born at See also:Westminster in 1695. In 1710 he became a scholar at Westminster school, and in 1714 entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He graduated in 1717, and obtained a fellowship three years later. Of his after-See also:life exceedingly little is known. It is certain that he passed the greater portion of it as See also:usher in Westminster school. He died on, the 2nd of See also:December 1747. During his lifetime he published three See also:editions of his Latin poems, and in 1772 there appeared a very handsome See also:quarto See also:volume containing all Bourne's pieces, but also some that did not belong to him. The Latin poems are remarkable not only for perfect mastery of all linguistic niceties, but for graceful expression and genuine poetic feeling. A number of them are See also:translations of English poems, and it is not too much to say that the Latin versions almost invariably surpass the originals. See also:Cowper, an old See also:pupil of Bourne's, See also:Beattie and See also:Lamb have combined in praise of his wonderful See also:power of Latin versification. See an edition (184o) of his Poemata, with a memoir by See also:John See also:Mitford.

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