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Richard Chenevix Trench : An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the world

'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

Trench : sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident'

In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident / It is the very place God meant for thee,' with the remark that this poem 'has often been a help to me when I have felt inclined to wish my position other than it is.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      

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