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10th, 1791. After being educated at Dr. Burney s academy at Greenwich, then at Eton, and subsequently at Brazenose College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1817, and appointed vicar of St. Mary s, Reading, where he continued till 1835. He was B.A., 1813; M.A., 1816 ; B.D. and D.D., 1849. From 3821 to 1831 he was professor of poetry in the University of Oxford. From 1835 to 1849 he was rector of St. Margaret s, Westminster, and canon of Westminster, and he became dean of St. Paul s in 1849-

His principal prose works are a &quot; History of Latin Christianity,&quot; six vols., 1854 ; &quot;A History of the Jews,&quot; 1843; and a &quot; Life of Keats.&quot; He also edited &quot; Gibbon s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,&quot; which he enriched with his learned notes. He has also contributed many articles to the &quot; Quarterly Review.&quot; In Macaulay s &quot;History of England&quot; he wrote a memoir of the author in 1858. This was republished separately in 1862. He also published the Bampton Lecture delivered by him in 1827.

As a poet, he published, in 1817, the tragedy of &quot; Fazio,&quot; which was represented on the stage. Among his other poetical works are &quot; Samor, Lord of the Bright City,&quot; 1818 ; &quot;The Fall of Jerusalem,&quot; 1820; &quot; Belshazzar ; &quot; the &quot;Martyr of Antioch;&quot; and &quot;Anne Boleyn.&quot; He published the poetical works of MM. Bowles, Wilson, and A. Cornwall, 1829, and his own poetical works, in three vols., 1839. His poems are distinguished by their scholarly taste and skill rather than by the fire and genius of the true poet. Dean Milman published a &quot; Selection of Psalms and Hymns for the use of St. Margaret s, Westminster, 1837 ; &quot; he has also translated some poems from Sanscrit, and he is the author of an illustrated edition of &quot; Horace, with a Life of the Poet, 1849;&quot; and of &quot;The Agamemnon of J^schylus and the Bacchanals of Euripides, with passages from the lyric and later Poets of Greece, translated by Dean Milman, 1865.

His hymns are good, without reaching the highest point of excellence. Some of them happily combine the Christian s experience of himself with his experience of Christ. This is true

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