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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 21: Germany.—October, 1839, to March, 1840.—Age, 28-29. (search)
was the Earl of Strafford's as follows:— Qui nimis notus omnibus ignotus moritur sibi, Tho. Wentworth, Anglus, 1612. Another was that of John Milton as follows:— —if Vertue feeble were Heaven it selfe would stoope to her. Coelum non animu muto du trans mare curro. Joannes Miltonius, Anglus. Junii 10, 1639. The date is supposed to have been written by another hand. This autograph of Milton is described in the Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autographs of Milton, by Samuel Leigh Sotheby, p. 107, where it is stated that the Album was sold at auction, in 1835, for twenty-five pounds four shillings, and that it is now the property of the Rev. (!) Charles Sumner, of America. and that the Reverendgentleman had recently obtained it in Europe. Sumner having been shown this Album, in 1839, by Mr. Parkes, to whom it then belonged, mentioned to Dr. Channing that the poet had written these lines of his own in an Album, and had made the change in the line from Horace; upon whi<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Vienna, Oct. 26. (search)
was the Earl of Strafford's as follows:— Qui nimis notus omnibus ignotus moritur sibi, Tho. Wentworth, Anglus, 1612. Another was that of John Milton as follows:— —if Vertue feeble were Heaven it selfe would stoope to her. Coelum non animu muto du trans mare curro. Joannes Miltonius, Anglus. Junii 10, 1639. The date is supposed to have been written by another hand. This autograph of Milton is described in the Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autographs of Milton, by Samuel Leigh Sotheby, p. 107, where it is stated that the Album was sold at auction, in 1835, for twenty-five pounds four shillings, and that it is now the property of the Rev. (!) Charles Sumner, of America. and that the Reverendgentleman had recently obtained it in Europe. Sumner having been shown this Album, in 1839, by Mr. Parkes, to whom it then belonged, mentioned to Dr. Channing that the poet had written these lines of his own in an Album, and had made the change in the line from Horace; upon whi<