Identifier: georgeherberthis00hyde (find matches)
Title: George Herbert and his times
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hyde, A. G
Subjects: Herbert, George, 1593-1633
Publisher: London : Methuen & co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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etheruntil the dean preached her funeral sermon in1627, may have begun here, he could not with-out an impossible breach of manners have thenaddressed to the young and charming widowhis well-known poem The Autumnal Beauty,Waltons assertion notwithstanding. Lord Herberts Autobiography is of special in-terest for the light it throws on his own educationand indirectly on that of the poet. The picturehe gives of his own boyhood and youth is dis-tinctly entertaining ; and his insistence on thetruthfulness of the future author of De Veritate ischaracteristic : I remember in that time I wascorrected sometimes for going to cuffs with twoschoolfellows, being both older than myself, butnever for telling a lie. He admits his hottemper, and being subject to choler and passionmore than I ought. At nine he began to learnWelsh, and between ten and twelve he acquired aknowledge of logic and Greek. On his going toOxford, at twelve or thirteen, he remembereddisputing in logic and performing the required
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LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY FROM AN ENGRAVING AFTER THE ORIGINAL PICTURE AT CHARI.COTT BIRTHPLACE, FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD 25 exercises oftener in Greek than in Latin. Likeall the Herberts, he had a natural gift of languages.At Oxford or at home, without master or teacher,he attained the knowledge of French, Italian andSpanish, by the help of some books in Latin orEnglish, translated into those idioms, and thedictionaries of those several languages. Hestudied music with no less success ; his brotherGeorge, though doubtless at a much later date,following his example. His object in learninglanguages was to make himself a citizen of theworld ; and he acquired music for the worthy-end that I might entertain myself at home, andtogether refresh my mind after my studies . . .and that I might not need the company of youngmen, in whom I observed in those times much illexample and debauchery. His reflections on the education of a gentle-man in his time are instructive. Latin andGreek should be the ba

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