Browning, Oscar : (1837-1923), Lecturer in history at Cambridge. A clever conversationalist, he entertained largely & showed kindness to innumerable young men. He was associated as a founder, head, or otherwise, with a large number of educational & cultural organizations. It must have been in that connection that Sayājirao invited him to visit Baroda & he arrived in Baroda in 1902. The Gaikwād had appointed Sri Aurobindo to be his guide during the duration of Browning’s visit. Browning described this visit in his Impressions of Indian Travel, London, 1903. He authored several books, historical, biographical etc. He received the O.B.E. in 1923.
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... unusual talent and rich integrity. [ Altered to: ] Aurobindo's unusual talents early attracted the admiration of Oscar Browning, then a well-known figure at Cambridge. Austen Leigh was not the name of the Provost; his name was Prothero. 1 It was not he but Oscar Browning, a scholar and Page 29 writer of some contemporary fame, who expressed admiration for Sri Aurobindo's scholarship ...
... letter Sri Aurobindo wrote to his father when he went up to Cambridge in October 1890. "Last night I was invited to coffee with one of the dons and in his rooms I met the great O. B., otherwise Oscar Browning, who is the feature 'par excellence' of King's. He was extremely flattering, passing from the subject of cotillons to that of scholarship he said to me, 'I suppose you know you passed an extra... here and then shut them up in that box! I suppose it is to keep their pride down!'" This was the letter reproduced by Dr. K. D. Ghose when he wrote to his brother-in-law on 2 December 1890. Oscar Browning (1837-1923) was an educationist and a historical writer. According to Sri Aurobindo's own estimation he was not at all painstaking like his poet-brother. "I could never go into the minute... Cambridge. He was doing his 'duty' as a son. Page 187 During the two years, from October 1890 to October 1892, when A. A. Ghose was at King's, his quarters —'that wretched hole' in Oscar Browning's words —consisted of a bedroom facing north, a small kitchen with sink, stove and cupboard, and a sitting-room, or study. Sri Aurobindo's quarters were on the second floor of the building on King's ...
... invitation the previous night to coffee with one of the dons in whose room was waiting "the great O.B., otherwise Oscar Browning." Don't mix up Oscar Browning with either Robert Browning who often wrote poetry like prose or Oscar Wilde who often wrote prose like poetry. Oscar Browning was a super-don, nothing more, but he had a fine literary sense and could pick out good writing - poetry or prose ...
... paying as he had charged double the amount for our suits. The Baroda Maharaja said I had better pay." Oscar Wilde had taken quite a fancy to the young Indian poet, Manmohan. "Mano used to visit him every evening and Wilde described him in his Wildish way, 'A young Indian panther in evening brown.' Wilde was as brilliant in conversation as in writing," continued Sri Aurobindo. "Once some of his friends... was a poet, you must remember—very imaginative. And, moreover, he was friend of Oscar Wilde's." After the ensuing laughter subsided, Sri Aurobindo said, "When the French heard of Wilde's imprisonment they said about the English people, Page 181 'Comme ils sont betes!' [How stupid they are!]" Oscar Wilde had taken an 'immense liking' to Mano. It was reciprocated by the latter... paradox and irony and perversity." When he gave up College in mid-career, Mano tried to reassure his friend Laurence about his prospects of landing a job. "I have been to see Oscar lately," he wrote on 4 August 1890. "Oscar was as charming and affectionate as ever. . . . He upbraided me much for not coming to see him before, and when he heard that I had been going about vainly in search of employment ...
... senior tutors, G.W. Prothero, invited him to meet Oscar Browning, a very well-known scholar and intellectual in the university at that time. There is a very interesting letter from Sri Aurobindo to his father which mentions this meeting: 'Last night I was invited to coffee with one of the Dons and in his rooms I met the great O.B., otherwise Oscar Browning, who is the feature par excellence of King's... gave credit. Then I went to London. He somehow traced me there and found Manmohan and canvassed orders from him. Manmohan went in for velvet suits, not staring red but aesthetic, and used to visit Oscar Wilde in them. Then we came away to India but the tailor was not to be deprived of his dues. He wrote to the Government of Bengal and to the Baroda State for recovering the sum from me and Manmohan ...
... "It is a complete conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What ought I to do, Oscar?" "Join it," replied Wilde, with happy readiness. 16 (ii)In a discussion on George Meredith, Oscar Wilde commented: "Meredith is a prose Browning - and so is Browning." 17 (iii)Oscar Wilde possessed the power of spontaneous wit which he kept even when he was in an unfortunate position... called him the luminous author of the 'Decline and Fall'." "Luminous!" repeated Sheridan, "Oh! of course I meant voluminous." 15 (10) From Oscar Wilde (1856-1900): (i) Sir Lewis Morris, the author of "The Epic of Hades", was complaining to Oscar Wilde of what he regarded as studied neglect of his claims when possible successors to the Laureateship were being discussed after Tennyson's death... He had the ill-luck of being sent to jail for a social offence. A friend visited him there and found him stitching gunny-bags. He hailed Wilde with the words: "Oscar, sewing?" Wilde at once replied: "No, reaping." 18 (iv)When Oscar Wilde was introduced in Paris to the Comtesse de Noailles who had a charming mind but a very far from charming face, the Comtesse remarked: "Monsieur Wilde, I have ...
... a certain extent. At Cambridge, Sri Aurobindo attracted the attention of Oscar Browning, a well-known figure there. In regard to Browning's appreciation of his talent, Sri Aurobindo wrote to his father: "Last night I was invited to coffee with one of the dons and in his room I met the great O.B. otherwise Oscar Browning, who is the feature par excellence of King's. He was extremely flattering ...
... no money to buy new clothes. Aurobindo decided to try and obtain a scholarship offered by King’s College of Cambridge University. He sat for the examination in December 1889 and came out first. Oscar Browning, then a renowned linguist and writer, confided later to Aurobindo that his papers for Greek and Latin had been the best submitted to him as an examiner in thirteen years. In his recently published ...
... then I wrote Greek and Latin verse my teachers would lament that I was not utilising my remarkable gifts because of laziness. When I went up with a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, Oscar Browning commented that he had not seen such remarkable papers. As you see, in spite of my laziness I was not deteriorating! DR. BECHARLAL: Was there any prejudice against Indians at that time? SRI ...
... that he would have it restitched by his efficient wife Sarah. Lamb set his mind at ease, turned him round to face the opposite direction and ran off to his lunch. The next talker in history is Oscar Wilde. It is strange that England should have supplied three of the greatest conversationalists of modern times. Of course Wilde was by nationality an Irishman, though domiciled in England; but Johnson... sensitive communication, the communication of poetry. Once we dwelt on this peculiar paradox. We shan't repeat ourselves: digressions are strictly forbidden in this Class! Well, to come straight to Oscar Wilde. He was a friend of Mallarme's and even attended several of the Tuesday-soirees. He must have been rather young and raw at the time, for otherwise Mallarme would have got no chance to talk. Wilde... himself was in an unfortunate position. He had the ill-luck of being sent to jail for a social offence. A friend visited him there and found him stitching gunny-bags. He hailed Wilde with the words: "Oscar, sewing?" Wilde at once replied: "No, reaping." I don't know whether Mallarme was as much of a wit as Wilde, but his talk was said to exert a deep influence on all his listeners. It is likely that ...
... conjunction. It was well spoken of. I dare say my brother stimulated me greatly to write poetry. NIRODBARAN: Was Oscar Wilde a friend of your brother? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. He used to visit him every evening and Wilde described him in his Wildish way as "a young Indian panther in evening brown". Wilde was as brilliant in conversation as in writing. Once some of his friends came to see him and asked how... said he had been to the zoo and gave a wonderful description of it, making a striking word picture of every animal. Mrs. Wilde, who was all the time sitting in a corner, put in a small voice, "But, Oscar, how could you say that! You were with me all morning." Wilde replied, "But, my dear one has to be imaginative sometimes." (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: I have heard a Wilde story. Once when he correcting ...
... and of K. D. Ghose is supported by a letter to his father from Aurobindo himself in which the remarks of "the great O .B." (Oscar Browning) are quoted. "Last night I was invited to coffee with one of the Dons and in his rooms I met the great O. B.;" otherwise Oscar Browning, ¹. Prothero to Cotton, 20 November 1892, India Office Library, London. ². "Father's Prophecy Baffled by the Son", Orient... is available except what is set forth here. One is not likely to unearth more. However, it is satisfactory that the testimony of three different men – Dr. K. D. Ghose, G. W. Prothero and Oscar Browning – is available not only about his brilliant academic career, but about his character even as a student. It is very likely that Dr. F. W. Walker, headmaster of St. Paul's, must have impressed... Then I went to London. The tailor somehow traced me there and found Manmohan also. Then he canvassed orders from him. Manmohan went in for a velvet suit, not staring red but aesthetic brown. He used to visit Oscar Wilde in that suit. Then he came away to India. But the tailor was not to be deprived of his dues. He wrote to the Government of Bengal and to the Baroda government for recovering ...
... be extravagant with!" 27 To the testimony of G. W. Prothero may be added that of Oscar Browning, who told Sri Aurobindo (as reported by him in the course of a letter to his father): Last night I was invited to coffee with one of the Dons and in his rooms I met the great O.B., otherwise Oscar Browning, who is the feature par excellence of King's. He was extremely flattering, passing from... it expressed my real feelings without restraint or reservation. I thought myself that it was the best thing I have ever done.... When Sri Aurobindo had answered a question about his rooms, Oscar Browning exclaimed, "That wretched hole!" and, turning to Mahaffy, added: "How rude we are to our scholars! We get great minds to come down here and then shut them up in that box! I suppose it is to ...
... of his (great) grandfather Rajnarain. Ara, I hope, will yet glorify his country by a brilliant administration. I shall not live to see it, but remember this letter if you do. I tell you what Oscar Browning the great son of the great father said to him when he was at tea with one of the dons of his College. (He is at King's College, Cambridge, now, borne there by his own Page 163 ...
... now were the lush cultural pastures of Cambridge and London, where Aurobindo’s eldest brother, the poet Manmohan, had befriended Laurence Binyon, Stephen Philips and Oscar Wide, the last calling him ‘an Indian panther in evening brown.’ Small wonder that Aurobindo spent a substantial part of his salary on crates of English books ordered from Bombay and which, wherever he settled down, occupied the ...
... spoken of. But I dare say my brother stimulated me to write poetry. Disciple : Was not Oscar Wilde his friend? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, he was. Mono Mohan used to visit him very often in the evenings and he used to describe Mano Mohan in his childish way : "a young Indian panther in Evening brown”! Wilde was as brilliant in conversation as he was in writing. Once some of his friends came... described at length his visit to the Zoo and gave a graphic description of what he had seen, the animals and other things. Then at the end Mrs. Wilde put in in a small voice – "But how could you say that, Oscar, when you have been with me all the morning ?" He replied : "Darling one must be imaginative sometimes." There is another story of Wilde. Once a proof was sent to him for correction. He wrote... complete, he is known by fragments and yet he is regarded as second Page 249 to Pindar who is called the greatest lyricist. The Hound of Heaven is a far greater poem than any of Oscar Wilde’s or of Chesterton’s. 26-9-1943 Disciple : What is the real root of man’s interest in story and literature? Is it independent of Truth? If it is not, what is its purpose? Sri ...
... his classical scholarship he possessed a knowledge of English literature far beyond the average of undergraduates and wrote a much better English than most young Englishmen." 10 Oscar Browning remarked that, although he had examined papers at thirteen examinations, he had never during that period seen such excellent papers as Sri Aurobindo's and his 'essay'—a comparative study of William ...
... the Irish genius Oscar Wilde who became the leader of the "aesthetic craze" during his years at Oxford. Gilbert delightfully ridiculed him by calling Wilde and his followers the "intense", "utterly too too" folk who "lived up" to a blue vase or a sunflower. This is how young Aurobindo is speaking through his created character Keshav Ganesh about the aesthetic achievements of Oscar Wilde: Ke... Parliament of Man, the Federation of the world; evolution, of which man, magnificent man, is the last term, completed in the noble white race, a humanitarian kindness and uplifting for our backward brown, yellow and black brothers; peace, peace, peace, reason, order, unity everywhere." 'There was a lot more like that, Anatole, and I was so much impressed by the beauty of the picture and its convenience ...
... comprised the supreme race, and that was what they wanted to preserve and promote. Race mixing was considered race degeneration, “mongrelization,” corruption necessarily ending in race suicide. From Oscar McCulloch’s Blood of a Nation (1902) onwards the purity of the blood (again a rather unscientific idea) became sacred. Every drop of inferior blood in a person’s veins made him descend lower and lower... eugenicist, wrote: “Can we build a wall high enough around this country so as to keep out these cheaper races, or will it be a feeble dam leaving it to our descendants to abandon the country to the blacks, browns and yellows, and seek asylum in New Zealand?” 27 This tone and tune were quite different from the famous lines by Emma Lazarus: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe ...
... for King’s College at Cambridge University. As a result of his performance in this examination, he was elected to the first vacant open scholarship, which means that he was the best candidate. Oscar Browning, one of the examiners and a Cambridge celebrity, would take Aravinda aside and tell him: ‘I suppose you know you passed an extraordinary examination. I have examined papers at thirteen examinations ...
... used to write Greek and Latin verse my teachers used to lament that I was not utilising my remarkable gifts because of my laziness. When I went for scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, Oscar Browning remarked that he had not seen such remarkable papers before. So, you see, in spite of all laziness I was not deteriorating. Disciple : Was there a prejudice against Indians at that time ...
... wrote Greek and Latin verse my teachers used to lament that I was not utilising my remarkable gifts because of my laziness. "When I went up for Scholarship at the King's College, Cambridge, Oscar Browning remarked that he had not seen such remarkable papers before." ¹ During these years (the years of teaching at Baroda) Sri Aurobindo used to pass his vacations in Bengal, especially the second ...
... professors are treated with all the respect that is their due. Anyway, when I presented myself for that coffee, I found that it was to be in the company of the well-known professor of our college, Oscar Browning or the 'great O.B.' as the students called him. He began the evening by praising me very highly, saying, 'I suppose you know you passed an extraordinarily high examination. I have examined papers... down from Cambridge to see me. He somehow traced me there and found Manomohan also. Then he canvassed orders from him. Manomohan went in for a velvet suit, not staring red but aesthetic brown. He used to visit Oscar Wilde in that suit. Then we came away to India. But the tailor was not to be deprived of his dues. He wrote to the government of Bengal and to the Baroda government for recovering the sum... "Have you seen the white waters?" asked Rohit. "Of course, I have. The blue sky above, the blue-green waters below where the fresh white foam runs and plays like little rabbits! And there we were, brown sahibs on a white ship, with Mother and Father and a sister, young and sweet like you. On the ship my brother Manomohan was very happy, almost bursting with joy. In fact, now and then, his thrill and ...
... Raghuvamsa was an earlier work and the more brilliant, Kumarasambhava was more deep and mature. Or the conversation skirted casually around Laurence Binyon, Stephen Phillips, Robert Bridges, Oscar Wilde, Manomohan Ghose, Bharati Sarabhai, the Hexameter, and the clue to it that a Cambridge friend, Ferrar, gave. Was Blake greater than Shakespeare? After Milton, what was the scope for the epic... used to call "the grinding poverty" of the masses. Our foreign policy too has failed to yield the expected dividends. The long years of subjection have indeed had their impairing effects, and the "brown sahib" has more often than not proved a worse tyrant than the white one, and the ruling elite is more alienated from the nation's Svabhava and Swadharma than were the foreign rulers. VI ...
... Goethe in the original – peopled a solitude of which he has said nothing. He never sought to form relationships, while Manmohan, the second brother, roamed through London in the company of his friend Oscar Wilde and would make a name for himself in English poetry. Each of the three brothers led his separate life. However, there was nothing austere about Sri Aurobindo, and certainly nothing of the puritan... s in luminosity are a sure indication of where we are and Page 114 even of the meaning of the scene. There is indeed a whole spectrum, from the muddy shades of the subconscient (gray, brown, black); the vibrant hues of the Subtle Physical; the bright colors of the Vital, which, we should note, always look somewhat artificial, flashy, and a bit hard (this region is particularly deceptive); ...
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