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?
5 months ago

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.
259 months ago

“Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.” (Hamlet, Act I, Scene I). The Society for Psychical Research was founded at the University of...
121 months ago

We get photos of the necessary details, this includes any flaws that we find. conditions?.
8 months ago

In 1873 Sir George Gilbert Scott designed a monument to Professor John Conington in the south chancel of St Botolph's church.
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Amid the full range of exemplary cases of pious duty to a dying friend, there can be few more bizarre than that of John Conington.
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Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1967. Paperback. 149p. A softcover book in good condition. Edges tanned, small stain on top edge,...
27 months ago

Amazon.com: The Aeneid Of Virgil: Translated Into English Verse. By John Conington: 9781022335837: Maro, Publius Vergilius: Books.
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John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar. Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns...
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