"In the last decades of his life Bentley undertook two ambitious projects that had an immense effect on the future of …"

"The mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains."

"Bentley, like the anti-Miltonists, had a great gift for getting hold of the right thing—by the wrong end. Again and a…"

"It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer."

"By the second half of the century the percipient few in the universities had come to realize that not all was well. I…"

"The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms."

"Lucida tela diei: these are the words that come into one's mind when one has halted at some stubborn perplexity of re…"

"Upon Aristophanes...he [Richard Porson] had employed his most brilliant efforts of emendatory criticism; and he is sa…"

"The greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred; a man so great that in his own province he serves…"

"It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself."