"Bentley had lived with the ancients till he understood them as no one will ever understand them who brings to their study a taste formed on the poetry of Elizabeth's time or ours."
— Richard Bentley

January 1, 1970

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A. E. Housman, Introductory Lecture, delivered before the faculties of arts and laws and of science in University College, London, October 3, 1892 (1937), pp. 9-10