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    Alexander Christison: The Lammermuir Latinist 1800
  • Alexander Crummell, an Abolitionist Grecian 1833
  • 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
  • Bursary Brothers: The Case of Alexander Shewan 1866
  • Enid Stacy: A Striking Classicist 1890
  • Jan Oscar De Gruyter’s: The Flemish Thespis 1909
  • John Aikin: Unitarian Classics 1750
  • John Relly Beard and Classical “Self-culture” 1856
  • John Wesley and Classical Rhetoric 1742
  • Kathleen Freeman’s Ancillary Classicism 1948
  • Madame Dacier: A French Classic 1680
  • Mercury at the Birmingham Mechanics’ Institute 1826
  • Other Means of Punishment by Robert Ainsworth 1698
  • Philip Inman: from boot-boy to Baron 1912
  • The Philosophy of Henry Jones 1905