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Richard Chenevix Trench

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

September 09, 1807

Died

March 28, 1886

Genre

Poetry, Religion, Ethnography

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Richard Chenevix Trench (9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886) was an Anglican archbishop and poet.

Known as Richard Trench until 1873 .

He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Richard Trench (1774–1860) and the Dublin writer Melesina Chenevix (1768–1827). His elder brother was Francis Chenevix Trench. He went to school at Harrow, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829. In 1830 he visited Spain. While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, he published (1835) The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources. These volumes revealed the author as the most gifted of the ...more

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	Trench's Synonyms of the New Testament 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1854 — 204 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On The Study Of Words really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004 — 297 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes on the Parables of Our Lord 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1847 — 218 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Authorized Version of the New Testament: In Connexion with Some Recent Proposals for Its Revision 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1847 — 152 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fitness of Holy Scripture for Unfolding the Spiritual Life of Men: Being the Hulsean Lectures for the Year 1845 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Household Book of English Poetry - Selected and Arranged with Notes 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plutarch, His Life, His Parallel Lives and His Morals: Five Lectures liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1874 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Past and Present by Richard Chenevix Trench, Abram Smythe Palmer (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calderon, his life and genius: with speciments of his plays really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.”
― Richard C. Trench

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“A good ship is never tested in calm waters.”
― Richard Trench

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“I travel back to Shakespeare, to Spenser, to Gascoigne, to Hawes, to Chaucer, Wiclif, and at length to Piers Ploughman, Robert of Gloucester, or whatever other work is taken as the earliest in our tongue. It is quite impossible with any consistency to make a stand anywhere, or to admit any words now obsolete without including, or at least attempting to include all.”
― Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries

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