Sir Henry Newbolt

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    When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    He saw the dark wainscot and timbered roof,
    The long tables, and the faces merry and keen;
    The College Eight and their trainer dining aloof,
    The Dons on the dais serene.
    —Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938)