FAMOUS TOMS
Mr Clement Shorter, in the ' Sphere' culls attention to an article in the ' Chicago Dial' on'famous Thomasos. Tho following !i:-t is suggestive: Thomas Occleve—' The Regement o" Princes.' Sir Thomas 'Malory—'Morte d'Arihur.' Thomas More—' Utopia.' Thomas Nash—' Plays.' Thomas Campion—Songs. Sir Thomas Browne—'Religio Medici.' Thomas Hobbes—'Leviathan.' Thomas Paniell—' Contentment.' Thomas Percy—'Reliques.' Thomas Gray—'Elegy.' Thomas Ohatterton—' Rowlcr Ballatls ' and a fleeting glimpse of the most staitlhi"genius ever known. n Tom Moore—Songs. Tom Hood—Poems, and courage. Thomas de Qi'incey—'Suspifia' de Profimdis.' Thomas Babington Macaulay—Essays, and that cursed boon, the balanced «cnteiiee Thomas Cariyle—' Sartor Resartus ' the greatest spirtual dynamic of his century Thomas Henry Huxlcv Essay* 'and honesty. " ' Thomas Arnold—Rugby. Thomas Hardy—The tmest novels in English. "- There is no doubt but that the Apostle Thomas should bo included, also «. Thoins a Backet (after whom St. Thomas's Hospital was named), Thomas Aquinas, Thomas aKempis. Why not Thomas Savers the boxer ?
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Evening Star, Issue 15909, 15 September 1915, Page 4
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149FAMOUS TOMS Evening Star, Issue 15909, 15 September 1915, Page 4
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