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    Alexander Bain: The Weaver Philosopher 1830
  • 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
  • Ernest Rhys: Everyman’s Guide 1906
  • George Smith: Deciphering the Flood 1872
  • Hugh Miller’s Homer 1854
  • Larysa Kosach of Ukraine 1900
  • Leigh Hunt: A Classical Cockney 1834
  • Pitmen of Ashington 1898