Alexander Grosart, ‘The First True Gentleman That Ever Breathed’, and the Independent Scholar

The Presbyterian clergyman and amateur scholar Alexander Grosart borrowed a line from the Renaissance play, The Honest Whore, Part One, in his sermon for the opening of Blackburn’s new church in 1868. Christ ‒ says Grosart ‒ was ‘the first true gentleman that ever breathed’. Exploring the resonances...

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Veröffentlicht in:	English (London) 2019-09, Vol.68 (262), p.264-282
1. Verfasser:	Cathcart, Charles
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
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