The Portrait of a Scholar: And Other Essays Written in Macedonia, 1916-1918 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

R. W. Chapman

9780484518185: The Portrait of a Scholar: And Other Essays Written in Macedonia, 1916-1918 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Portrait of a Scholar: And Other Essays Written in Macedonia, 1916-1918

Cb'oeplzaroe in the train that morning You know, it 's monstrously good.' The quotation does feeble justice to my vivid sense of his being as intimate with Aeschylus as he was with Browning, and as intimate with Politian as With either. He was so profoundly versed in the literature and the manners of many ages, that he would speak of Sir Thomas More, or of Burke, very much as he spoke of Swinburne as if he had known them.

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