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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Family History
- CHAPTER II 1841—1858: Childhood and School Days
- CHAPTER III 1858—1862: Undergraduate Years
- CHAPTER IV 1862—1864: Fellowship and College Work.—Tour in Egypt
- CHAPTER V 1865—1870: Diary and Letters.—Public Oratorship
- CHAPTER VI 1871—1872: Letters to C. L. S.
- CHAPTER VII 1872—1874: Cambridge Life and Work
- CHAPTER VIII 1874—1878: Marriage.—Election to Glasgow Chair. Inaugural Address. Letters by Rev. Dr Denney, and Mr R. P. G. Williamson, M.A.—Visit to Italy and Greece.—Illness
- CHAPTER IX 1878—1880: British School at Athens. Hellenic Society.—Visit to Paris.—Challenge by Dr Blackie.—Visit to Venice
- CHAPTER X 1881—1883: Springfield.—Bentley.—Attack on Glasgow University.—The Troad.—School at Athens
- CHAPTER XI 1883—1889: Visit to America.—Professor Fawcett.—Death of Mr Robert Jebb.—Royal Academy.—Ode to Bologna.—Resignation of Greek Chair in Glasgow
- CHAPTER XII 1889—1894: Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge.—Rede Lecture.—Election to Parliament. First Speech
- CHAPTER XIII 1894—1896: The Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill. Speech.—Illness
- CHAPTER XIV 1896—1898: Conference on Secondary Education.—Visit to the Riviera.—Voluntary Schools' Grant Bill. Sir John Gorst's Education Bill. Burial Grounds Committee
- CHAPTER XV 1898—1900: Death of Mr Gladstone.—Speech on the Rating of Clergymen.—Letters.—Romanes Lecture.—War. Consultation's Committee.—Knighthood
- CHAPTER XVI 1900—1901: Re-election.—Death of the Queen.—Deputation to Mr Balfour.—Irish University Commission
- CHAPTER XVII 1902—1903: British Academy.—Education Bill.—Tercentenary of Bodleian Library.—Trustee of British Museum.—Memorial Cloister at Charterhouse
- CHAPTER XVIII 1904—1905: Letters.—Order of Merit.—Defeat of Government
- CHAPTER XIX 1905: Visit to South Africa.—Last Illness
- The Scholar and Critic
- Index
The Scholar and Critic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Family History
- CHAPTER II 1841—1858: Childhood and School Days
- CHAPTER III 1858—1862: Undergraduate Years
- CHAPTER IV 1862—1864: Fellowship and College Work.—Tour in Egypt
- CHAPTER V 1865—1870: Diary and Letters.—Public Oratorship
- CHAPTER VI 1871—1872: Letters to C. L. S.
- CHAPTER VII 1872—1874: Cambridge Life and Work
- CHAPTER VIII 1874—1878: Marriage.—Election to Glasgow Chair. Inaugural Address. Letters by Rev. Dr Denney, and Mr R. P. G. Williamson, M.A.—Visit to Italy and Greece.—Illness
- CHAPTER IX 1878—1880: British School at Athens. Hellenic Society.—Visit to Paris.—Challenge by Dr Blackie.—Visit to Venice
- CHAPTER X 1881—1883: Springfield.—Bentley.—Attack on Glasgow University.—The Troad.—School at Athens
- CHAPTER XI 1883—1889: Visit to America.—Professor Fawcett.—Death of Mr Robert Jebb.—Royal Academy.—Ode to Bologna.—Resignation of Greek Chair in Glasgow
- CHAPTER XII 1889—1894: Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge.—Rede Lecture.—Election to Parliament. First Speech
- CHAPTER XIII 1894—1896: The Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill. Speech.—Illness
- CHAPTER XIV 1896—1898: Conference on Secondary Education.—Visit to the Riviera.—Voluntary Schools' Grant Bill. Sir John Gorst's Education Bill. Burial Grounds Committee
- CHAPTER XV 1898—1900: Death of Mr Gladstone.—Speech on the Rating of Clergymen.—Letters.—Romanes Lecture.—War. Consultation's Committee.—Knighthood
- CHAPTER XVI 1900—1901: Re-election.—Death of the Queen.—Deputation to Mr Balfour.—Irish University Commission
- CHAPTER XVII 1902—1903: British Academy.—Education Bill.—Tercentenary of Bodleian Library.—Trustee of British Museum.—Memorial Cloister at Charterhouse
- CHAPTER XVIII 1904—1905: Letters.—Order of Merit.—Defeat of Government
- CHAPTER XIX 1905: Visit to South Africa.—Last Illness
- The Scholar and Critic
- Index
Summary
It is thought desirable that this volume should comprise some notice of Sir Richard Jebb as a writer and critic, some attempt to appreciate his specialty as a scholar. This I have been invited to supply; and though I feel that the task is, in its own nature, and apart from personal competence, not merely difficult but truly impossible, I comply without hesitation, in the confidence that every reader, in proportion to his own capacity, will be quick to perceive the difficulty and to make the necessary allowance.
Sensibility, subtlety, delicacy, economy, reserve—these were, as I apprehend, the essential qualities of Jebb's mind, and the foundation of his skill in expression. His central achievement, the edition of Sophocles, owes its success, and the general recognition of its singular importance, to the happy application of these qualities, and a natural harmony between the expositor and the poet. Fineness of stroke, the dislike of crudity, violence, and emphasis, an ever-present perception that what is most worth saying cannot—such is language—be said, but must, if it is to come with true force, be hinted and suggested, all these are principles common to the dramatist and the annotator. We have Sophocles illuminated by Addison.
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- Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., Litt. D.With a Chapter on Sir Richard Jebb as Scholar and Critic by Dr. A. W. Verrall, pp. 427 - 488Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010