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Shairp

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[shairp, shahrp] / ʃɛərp, ʃɑrp /

noun

  1. John Campbell Principal Shairp, 1819–85, English critic, poet, and educator.


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Investors anticipated S&P’s action, said David Shairp, a global strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management in London.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 18, 2012

It is strange that both Lockhart and Shairp should have stumbled on the explanation of Burns's righteous satire in these poems; should have been so near it, and yet have missed it.

From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Setoun, Gabriel

Then read in the same manner what Coleridge, Shairp, F.W.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

"If the penters are coming in, it's just the time that I sud be here, sir," said Mrs. Shairp, firmly, but respectfully.

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

Principal Shairp says: "'The Ode on Immortality' marks the highest limit which the tide of poetic inspiration has reached in England within this century, or indeed since the days of Milton."

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

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