19th-century Classical Scholar Quotes

Theodor Mommsen
A. E. Housman
Benjamin Jowett
Henry George Liddell
Frederic G. Kenyon
Jane Ellen Harrison

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman
Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.

Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett
If I think of Death at all it is merely as a negation of life, a close, a last and necessary chord. What I dread is disease, that is, bad, disordered life, not Death, and disease, so far, I have escaped.

Jane Ellen Harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

Henry George Liddell
Henry George Liddell
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.

Theodor Mommsen
Theodor Mommsen
No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

Frederic G. Kenyon
Frederic G. Kenyon
I like you the better for your illusions; but it cannot be denied that they prevent you from being effective, and if you do not become effective before you cease to want anything to be done-why, what will be the good of you?

This was Macedonia in the strict sense, the land where settled immigrands of Greek stock later to be called Macedonians.

The original Greek is of great use in elucidating Browning's translation of the Agamemnon.
Remark to his students