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- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE. THE LETTER TO MILL
- CHAPTER II THE BOYLE LECTURES
- CHAPTER III LEARNED CORRESPONDENCE. THE KING'S LIBRARIAN
- CHAPTER IV THE CONTROVERSY ON THE LETTERS OF PHALARIS
- CHAPTER V BENTLEY'S DISSERTATION
- CHAPTER VI TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
- CHAPTER VII BENTLEY AS MASTER OF TRINITY
- CHAPTER VIII LITERARY WORK AFTER 1700.—HORACE
- CHAPTER IX OTHER CLASSICAL STUDIES. — TERENCE. — MANILIUS. — HOMER
- CHAPTER X THE PROPOSED EDITION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
- CHAPTER XI ENGLISH STYLE. EDITION OF PARADISE LOST
- CHAPTER XII DOMESTIC LIFE. LAST YEARS
- CHAPTER XIII BENTLEY'S PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP
CHAPTER VI - TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE. THE LETTER TO MILL
- CHAPTER II THE BOYLE LECTURES
- CHAPTER III LEARNED CORRESPONDENCE. THE KING'S LIBRARIAN
- CHAPTER IV THE CONTROVERSY ON THE LETTERS OF PHALARIS
- CHAPTER V BENTLEY'S DISSERTATION
- CHAPTER VI TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
- CHAPTER VII BENTLEY AS MASTER OF TRINITY
- CHAPTER VIII LITERARY WORK AFTER 1700.—HORACE
- CHAPTER IX OTHER CLASSICAL STUDIES. — TERENCE. — MANILIUS. — HOMER
- CHAPTER X THE PROPOSED EDITION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
- CHAPTER XI ENGLISH STYLE. EDITION OF PARADISE LOST
- CHAPTER XII DOMESTIC LIFE. LAST YEARS
- CHAPTER XIII BENTLEY'S PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP
Summary
Towards the end of 1699, about eight months after the publication of Bentley's Dissertation on Phalaris, the Mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge, became vacant by the removal of Dr Mountague to the Deanery of Durham. The nomination of a successor rested with six Commissioners, to whom King William had entrusted the duty of advising in the ecclesiastical and academic patronage of the Crown. They were Archbishops Tenison and Sharp, with Bishops Lloyd, Burnet, Patrick and Moore,—the last-named in place of Stillingfleet, who had died in April, 1699. On their unanimous recommendation, the post was given to Bentley. He continued to hold the office of King's Librarian; but his home thenceforth was at Cambridge.
No places in England have suffered so little as Oxford and Cambridge from the causes which tend to merge local colour in a monochrome. The academic world which Bentley entered is still, after a hundred and eighty years, comparatively near to us, both in form and in spirit. The visitor in 1700, whom the coach conveyed in twelve hours from the ‘Bull’ in Bishopsgate Street to the ‘Rose’ in the Marketplace of Cambridge, found a scene of which the essential features were the same as they are to-day.
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- Bentley , pp. 86 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1882