The Journal of Philology Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...so as to make it mean that we know some things are e dvdyKrj1: but I do not suppose any one will agree with him. WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK. On the 6th of last November died W. G. Clark, one of the first editors of our Journal, at the age of fifty-seven. Many interesting details of his life, his character and his work will be found in two notices, written by intimate friends of his and published soon after his death in the Obituaries of the Athenaeum and the Academy. Intimately acquainted with him almost from his boyhood, for a space of nearly 40 years, I am disposed to think that, taking him all in all, his was the most accomplished and versatile mind I ever encountered. Whatever he undertook to do, was always executed with a surprising tact and readiness. I cannot remember the time when he had not at his command a finished English style, wielded with consummate ease and mastery. The same ease and mastery were displayed, whenever he chose to exert them and however varied the occasion might be, in Greek and Latin composition, prose and verse alike; nor was he a mean proficient in French. For many years he was a conspicuous figure in the University and in Trinity, as Public Orator and as a Lecturer and Tutor of.his College. During his vacations he was an untiring traveller in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, Ireland and elsewhere, and shewed his power of acute observation and the readiness of his pen in more than one complete book and in many shorter papers. In the large circle of his friends and acquaintances the feeling I believe was quite universal that, as a charming companion and brilliant yet gentle talker, he had no superior. The late Lord Clarendon, who knew him and liked him well, told a friend of mine that Clark was the most...