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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, IX: George Bancroft (search)
were resolved to leave, even if their proposed school came to nothing. The school in question was the once famous Round Hill at Northampton, in which enterprise Cogswell, then thirty-six, and Bancroft, then twenty-three, embarked in 1823. The latter had already preached several sermons, and seemed to be feeling about for his career; but it now appeared as if he had found it. In embarking, however, he warbled a sort of swan-song at the close of his academical life, and published in September, 1823, a small volume of eighty pages, printed at the University Press, Cambridge, and entitled Poems by George Bancroft. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf. Some of these were written in Switzerland, some in Italy, some, after his return home, at Worcester; but almost all were European in theme, and neither better nor worse than the average of such poems by young men of twenty or thereabouts. The first, called Expectation, is the most noticeable, for it contains an autobiographical glimpse of