Swinburne

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

A village in Free State province, South Africa.

Examples

That Stirling as well as Milnes should regard Swinburne as a prodigy greatly comforted Adams, who lost his balance of mind at first in trying to imagine that Swinburne was a natural product of Oxford. Henry Adams

On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt. Sidney Lanier

Swinburne gave the coup de grace to English rhyme. F. S. Flint

And one's passions are so random and unreliable - cricket scores one minute, Swinburne the next. Julian Mitchell

Clyde K. Hyder, Algernon Swinburne: The Critical Heritage, 1995, p. 185 The Franco-Prussian War broke out soon after his graduation from college in 1870; he enlisted as a volunteer. Source: Internet

In sharp contrast, Swinburne the poet would comment on this same theme: "Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death." Source: Internet

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