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    ‘Dirty Dick’: The Bard of Aberdaron 1810
  • “Well, it’s not exactly Greek choral metre!” 1871
  • Alexander Bain: The Weaver Philosopher 1830
  • Alexander Christison: The Lammermuir Latinist 1800
  • Alexander Crummell, an Abolitionist Grecian 1833
  • Alexander Murray: The Shepherd Scholar 1808
  • The remark was suggestive of many things, and it left me picturing the progress of the class and thinking of the way in which, for so many succeeding generations, the classics have been steeped with the peculiar atmosphere of the public schools. What proportion of Englishmen who have learnt classics at school feel that Theocritus or Plato or Thucydides signify, above all, English playing fields, English class-rooms, and the scent of English limes? Of course in such an atmosphere much evaporates - the restlessness of the Greek intellect and many other things. There is even absurdity in the way in which some story of perverted passion is pleasantly droned through a drowsy summer afternoon. But the whole
    Ancient Greek in Camden Town 1920
  • Andrew Dalzel: Professor of Greek 1779
  • Arthur Pendennis’ trouble with δὲ 1849
  • Ben Tillet: Classics on the Docks 1887
  • Bilston Boy Undone by Greek 1620
  • Calder-Marshall’s Dead Centre 1933
  • Cervantes’ Philosophical Dogs 1613
  • Charles Manby Smith and the Ragged Grecian 1820
  • Chesterfield on ‘Illiteracy’ 1748
  • Frank Walbank: Marxist Polybius? 1940