John William Mackail

thumb| John William Mackail OM FBA (26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945) was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system. Quotes Still . . . fair, though scarce less old than Rome. Now once again at rest from wandering Across the high Alps and the dreadful sea, In utmost England let it find a home. "An Etruscan Ring", II; in T. S. Baynes and Lewis Campbell, eds., Alma Mater's Mirror (1887), p. 218 The soul beyond her knowing seems to sweep Out of the deep, fire-winged, into the deep. "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee", st. 13; in Love's Looking Glass (1891), p. 163 Translations The Odyssey (1910) Books I–VIII (1903) · IX–XVI (1905) · XVII–XXIV (1910) O Muse, instruct me of the man who drewHis changeful course through wanderings not a fewAfter he sacked the holy town of Troy,And saw the cities and the counsel knewOf many men, and many a time at seaWithin his heart he bore calamity,While his own life he laboured to redeemAnd bring his fellows back from jeopardy. Book I, line 1 And the sun left the lovely lake and clombUpward across the sky's brass-paven dome,To light the deathless gods, and mortal menThat have the acres of the corn for home. Book III, line 1 Saw you perchance before the Trojan wallA sister's husband or wife's father fall,A valiant man? for next one's kin and bloodIs such affinity most close of all:Or one knit close to you in friendship's bands,Gracious of heart and mighty of his hands?Since nowise lesser than a brother bornThe comrade is who wisdom understands. Book VIII Even as when the maid of PandarusThe greenwood nightingale melodious,Amid the thickening leafage sits and singsWhen the young spring is waving over us:And she with many a note and hurrying trillPours forth her liquid voice, lamenting stillHer own son Itylus, King Zethus' child,Whom long ago her folly made her kill. Book XIX, line 518 Quotes about Mackail From D-wks and Ch-tty at my tail You’ll syllogize that I’m M-CK-L; In all I do I score always, In all I say — à l’écossaise. The Masque of B-ll--l (1880). Variant: "I am tall and rather stately / And I care not very greatly / What you say, or what you do. / I’m Mackail — and who are you? External links Category:1859 births Category:1945 deaths Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Academics from Scotland Category:Translators from Scotland Category:Biographers from Scotland Category:Socialists Category:University of Oxford faculty Category:Fellows of the British Academy Category:Historians from Scotland Category:Translators of Homer