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Thomas Campbell


Born
in Glasgow, Scotland
July 27, 1777

Died
June 15, 1844

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Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London. In 1799, he wrote The Pleasures of Hope, a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs—Ye Mariners of England, The Soldier's Dream, Hohenlinden and in 1801, The Battle of Mad and Strange Turkish Princes. ...more

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“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.”
Thomas Campbell

“To live in the hearts we leave behind, is not to die.”
Thomas Campbell

“La calidad de tu ser expresa la corrección de tu comprensión”
Thomas Campbell

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