English Classical Scholar Quotes

Richard Bentley

A. E. Housman

Thomas Gaisford

Maurice Bowra

Martin Joseph Routh

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.

Nor can I do better, in conclusion, than impress upon you the study of Greek literature, which not only elevates above the vulgar herd, but leads not infrequently to positions of considerable emolument.

Thomas Gaisford

The smallest planets are situated nearest the sun and each other; whereas Jupiter and Saturn, that are vastly greater than the rest, and have many satellites about them, are wisely removed to the extreme regions of the system, and placed at an immense distance one from the other.

Richard Bentley

Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

But I know, my friends, that you may object to me what St. Irenaeus says.

Martin Joseph Routh

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.