Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
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Arthur Hugh Clough was born on the first day of 1819 to James and Ann Clough in Liverpool, England. A poet who studied at Rugby and Oxford, Clough had radical political and religious beliefs. After going to France to support the revolution of 1848, Clough traveled to the United States hoping to mostra altro obtain a position at Harvard. When that did not work out, Clough returned home and married Blanch Smith. Soon after, Clough spent much of his time helping his wife's cousin, Florence Nightingale, lobby for reform in hospitals and in the nursing profession. Throughout the 1850s, Clough worked on a translation of Plutarch's Lives and a large poem, Mari Magno. Clough died in Florence, Italy, on November 13, 1861, at the age of 42. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Arthur Hugh Clough
Plutarch's Lifes of Famous Men 2 copie
Greek History from Plutarch 1 copia
Plutarch's Lives, Vol. V 1 copia
Plutarch's Lives, Vol. IV 1 copia
Plutarch's Lives - Vol. III 1 copia
Plutarch's Lives - Vol. I 1 copia
The Struggle (poem) 1 copia
Plutarch's Lives Volume 2 1 copia
Plutarch's Live Volume 2 1 copia
Opere correlate
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I of the Dryden translation, edited by Arthur Hugh Clough. (1992) — alcune edizioni — 1,376 copie
Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and… (1909) — Translation revision — 603 copie
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Collaboratore — 250 copie
Voices of the Industrial Revolution: Selected Readings from the Liberal Economists and Their Critics (1961) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Plutarch's the Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Volume 2 (2000) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 20 copie
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: v. 1 (Everyman's Library) (1912) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 16 copie
Plutarch's Lives - The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek and Revised: Volume III — alcune edizioni; alcune edizioni — 4 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Clough, Arthur Hugh
- Nome legale
- Clough, Arthur Hugh
- Data di nascita
- 1819-01-01
- Data di morte
- 1861-11-13
- Luogo di sepoltura
- English Cemetery, Florence, Italy
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Florence, Italy
- Istruzione
- University of Oxford
- Attività lavorative
- poet
- Relazioni
- Arnold, Matthew (friend)
Lowell, James Russell (friend)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 34
- Opere correlate
- 26
- Utenti
- 223
- Popolarità
- #100,550
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 49
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 1
I started this book, and then it sat without being read for six months. When I picked it up again, I started the chapter on: Lycurgus king of Sparta. The true details are shrouded in antiquity, but this chapter outlines him as a king who worked to create laws and a society for the blessing of his people. The laws of marriage are quite strange. He created a culture of self-denial.
A couple of paragraphs quite struck me, and are quoted here.
"Cæsar once, seeing some wealthy strangers at Rome, carrying up and down with them in their arms and bosoms young puppy-dogs and monkeys, embracing and making much of them, took occasion not unnaturally to ask whether the women in their country were not used to bear children; by that prince-like reprimand gravely reflecting upon persons who spend and lavish upon brute beasts that affection and kindness which nature has implanted in us to be bestowed on those of our own kind. With like reason may we blame those who misuse that love of inquiry and observation which nature has implanted in our souls, by expending it on objects unworthy of the attention either of their eyes or their ears, while they disregard such as are excellent in themselves, and would do them good." (Loc 4651)
"It was not said amiss by Antisthenes, when people told him that one Ismenias was an excellent piper, “It may be so,” said he, “but he is but a wretched human being, otherwise he would not have been an excellent piper.” And king Philip, to the same purpose, told his son Alexander, who once at a merry-meeting played a piece of music charmingly and skilfully, “Are you not ashamed, son, to play so well?” For it is enough for a king or prince to find leisure sometimes to hear others sing, and he does the muses quite honor enough when he pleases to be but present, while others engage in such exercises and trials of skill. He who busies himself in mean occupations produces, in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good." (Loc 4669)
Theseus about 1284-1232 BC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus
Romulus about 771 BC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus
Lycurgus of Sparta Born: 800 BC
Numa Pompilius Wikipedia Born: April 21, 753 BC
Solon Born: Athens, Greece Died: 558 BC
Themistocles Athenian Politician Wikipedia Born: 524 BC, Athens, Greece Died: 459 BC
Marcus Furius Camillus (/kəˈmɪləs/; c. 446 – 365 BC) was a Roman soldier and statesman of patrician descent.
Pericles Greek statesman Born: 495 BC, Holargos, Greece Died: 429 BC, Athens, Greece
Pyrrhus - a fierce warrior without moral principle. (Loc - 12313)
Eumenes - betrayed into the hands of Antigonus. (Loc 17600-17643)
Tiberius was a just man who endeavored to do justice to the people by ensuring that they had property, and not just the rich. He was slain by a conspiracy of the wealthy. (75% of the way through)
The term patrician (Latin: patricius, Greek: πατρίκιος, patrikios) originally referred to a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome.… (altro)