1849-59

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Impaired health led to his resignation, when he was made K.C.B. and a Privy Councillor. He was afterwards Prof. of Modern History at Camb. 1849-59, and of the same subject at the East India Coll. at Haileybury 1855-57. He wrote Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography and Lectures on the History of France .

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

So confident and sanguine was he that he had the full scores of his operas published at his own expense; and the charges had to be met out of what the operas brought him. And so when he had finished Tristan in 1859 the outlook was of the blackest. It was not less than a disaster that, during this period, 1849-59, Wagner got to know the writings of Schopenhauer.

John F. Runciman - Richard Wagner: Composer of Operas

The translation by E. C. Otté and W. S. Dallas, which came out in 1849-59. A version by Mrs.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.