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Short Name: | John Addington Symonds |
Full Name: | Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 |
Birth Year: | 1840 |
Death Year: | 1893 |
Symonds, John Addington, M.A., s. of J. A. Symonds, b. at Bristol, Oct. 5, 1840; educated at Harrow, and Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. (double first) 1862, and Fellow of Magdalen 1862. Wrote extensively, especially on the History of the Italian Renaissance, and also published various volumes of verse. Died at home, April 19, 1893. His Life, by Horatio Brown, was published in 1895. His hymn: "These things shall be! a loftier race" (A Regenerated World), in The Methodist Hymn Book, 1901, is from his New and Old, a volume of verse by John Addington Symonds, 1880, p. 225. It begins with st. iv. of "Sad heart, what will the future bring?" a poem entitled "A Vista." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by John Addington Symonds (2)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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These things shall be, a loftier race | J. Addington Symonds (Author) | English | 136 |
To God, the everlasting, who abides | J. Addington Symonds, 1840-93 (Author) | English | 2 |