The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
About Thomas Edward Brown
Thomas Edward Brown (5 May 1830 – 29 October 1897), commonly referred to as T. E. Brown, was a late-19th century scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian from the Isle of Man.
Having achieved a double first at Christ Church, Oxford, and election as a fellow of Oriel in April 1854, Brown served first as headmaster of The Crypt School, Gloucester, then as a young master at the recently-founded Clifton College, near Bristol (influencing, among others, poet William Ernest Henley at The Crypt School.
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I must be free… free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.
Manx poet, scholar and theologian
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
Manx poet, scholar and theologian
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Manx poet, scholar and theologian
It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
Manx poet, scholar and theologian
A rich man’s joke is always funny.
Manx poet, scholar and theologian
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
Manx poet, scholar and theologian
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Manx poet, scholar and theologian