12/13/2023 0 Comments Sigma tau delta english whittier![]() ![]() Letter from Charles Babbage to Booth.īabbage thanks Booth, the executor of Kenyon’s will, for the gift of a telescope, which had belonged to their valued friend, John Kenyon. The Armstrong Browning Library has three of Babbage’s letters in its collection. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. It is not so in chymistry and mathematics. But anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. Napoleon called poetry ‘science creuse’-which, although he was not scientific in poetry himself, is true enough. is much as if Babbage were to take my opinion & undo his calculating machine by it. That such a poet shd submit blindly to the suggestions of his critics, (I do not say that suggestions from without may not be accepted with discrimination sometimes, to the benefit of the acceptor) blindly & implicitly to the suggestions of his critics. In execution, he is exquisite,-and, in music, a most subtle weigher out to the ear, of fine airs. ![]() ![]() This letter, part of Wellesley College Special Collections, is also in The Browning Letters digital collection at Baylor University through the Baylor-Wellesley collaboration:ĭo you know Tennyson? that is, with a face to face knowledge? I have great admiration for him. There are several references to him in Elizabeth’s letters, including this passage from a letter from EBB to Robert Browning, 17 February 1845. He was a visitor at John Kenyon’s parties and probably acquainted with the Brownings. By Melinda Creech, Graduate Assistant, Armstrong Browning LibraryĬharles Babbage is credited with originating the concept of a programmable computer. ![]()
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