"By the second half of the century the percipient few in the universities had come to realize that not all was well. If...the universities were to be places of high scholarship, then the reforms of the first half of the century were found wanting, or at any rate insufficient and wrongly conceived. A different kind of change was therefore required, and there could be none, unless critical scholarship was reinstated. It was an important feature of that change that Bentley arrived back in this country together, as it were, with the great Germans who had made themselves his disciples."
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Charles Brink, English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson, and Housman (1986), p. 138
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Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley (January 27, 1662 – July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic.
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