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The Execution of Lady Jane Grey in the Tower, by Paul Hippolyte Delaroche, took the highest prize. The picture was a happy medium between the ultra-romantic method of Delacroix and the classicism of David. Three years previous to this, Delaroche sent to the Salon his famous paintings
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Cromwell at the Bier of Charles I., and
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The Children of Edward IV. in the Tower. At this same time he was engaged on the greatest of his works,
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The Hemicycle, now in the Hall of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. England lost three men prominent in letters, Blackwood, Lamb, and Coleridge. Blackwood's contribution to English letters was the
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Edinburgh Magazine,
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Essays of Elia
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Elia, a fancifully adopted name of an Italian fellow clerk at the South Sea House, where Lamb served his literary apprenticeship. While serving as a clerk for the South Sea Company he published his first poems at the age of twenty-two, followed shortly by
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Rosamond Gray and
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John Woodville, at the beginning of the century. With his sister Mary he shared in the publication of the two children's books,
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Tales from Shakespeare (1806), and
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Poetry for Children (1809). During this same period he compiled and edited the famous
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Essays of Elia,