Essays by the Late Mark Pattison (Volume 1); Sometime Rector of Lincoln College
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Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: English essays Fiction / General Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: VI. JOSEPH SCALIGER (Quarterly Review, July 1860.) FROM the space which Joseph Scaliger once filled in the world -- at least in the world of books -- it might have been thought that he would have found many biographers. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries every writer of any figure had his Boswell. Joseph Scaliger wrote the Life of his Father, Julius Caesar. But Joseph himself is an exception. Professor Bernays, at the distance of two hundred and fifty years, is the first person who has undertaken to give any complete account of perhaps the most extraordinary man who has ever devoted his life to letters. This remarkable silence is itself not without a cause. Scaliger's great works in historical criticism had outstripped any power of appreciation which the succeeding age possessed. It was not that his name was forgotten at his death; on the contrary, his fame maintained itself at least during all the first period of splendour of the Leyden school, by whom reverence for Scaliger was exalted into a culte. But this veneration was inspired by Scaliger's secondary labours -- by his gift of emendatory criticism, and his skill in the Greek language. His merit came to consist, with these worthy commentators, in his having given good editions of two or three Greek authors, and, with the schoolmasters, in his facility in writing verses. But when it was found that the Variorum Classics were vastly ...
