Andrew Lang was in Oxford when he first encountered the living dead. One autumn night in 1869, he passed John Conington, professor of Latin...
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Everyone from lexicographer Samuel Johnson to Prime Minister Winston Churchill has used the phrase—but where does it come from?
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A study of 'Eric, or Little by Little', together with the Complete Text of the Book by Ian Anstruther. Haggerston, 237 pp., £19.95, January 2003.
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“Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.” (Hamlet, Act I, Scene I). The Society for Psychical Research was founded at the University of...
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A companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and...
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We get photos of the necessary details, this includes any flaws that we find. conditions?.
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Download Images of Odes And Carmen Saeculare Of Horace Conington 1872 - Free for commercial use, no attribution required. From: Horace Odes etc tr Conington...
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Resource Type, : Book. Author, : Conington, John Symonds, J. A. (Ed.) Smith, H. J. S.. Year/Date of Publication, : 1872.
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Secretary, Oxford Union, 1845; President, 1846; Librarian, 1847; lay fellow, University College, Oxford, 1848; first Corpus Professor of Latin, 1854-69.
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This edition of The Georgics utilizes John Dryden's eighteenth century translation referred to by Alexander Pope as the most noble and spirited translation.
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