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See also:GEORGE See also:BURGES (1786-1864) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:India . He was educated at See also:Charterhouse school and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, taking his degree in 1807, and obtaining one of the members' prizes both in 18o8 and 1809 . He stayed up at Cambridge and became a most successful " See also:coach." He had a See also:great reputation as a See also:Greek scholar, and was a somewhat acrimonious critic of See also:rival scholars, especially See also:Bishop See also:Blomfield . Subsequently he See also:fell into embarrassed circumstances through injudicious See also:speculation, and in 1841 a See also:civil See also:list See also:pension of £See also:loo per annum was bestowed upon him . He died at See also:Ramsgate, on the filth of See also:January 1864 . See also:Burges was a See also:man of great learning and See also:industry, but too fond of introducing arbitrary emendations into the See also:text of classical authors . His See also:chief See also:works are: See also:Euripides' Troades (1807) and Phoenissae (1809); See also:Aeschylus' Supplices (1821), See also:Eumenides (1822) and See also:Prometheus (1831); See also:Sophocles' See also:Philoctetes (1833); E . F . See also:Poppo's Prolegomena to See also:Thucydides (1837), an abridged See also:translation with See also:critical remarks; Hermesianactis Fragmenta (1839) . He also edited some of the dialogues of See also:Plato with English notes, and translated nearly the whole of that author and the Greek See also:anthology for See also:Bohn's Classical library . He was a frequent contributor to the Classical See also:Journal and other See also:periodicals, and dedicated to See also:Byron a See also:play called The Son of See also:Erin, or, The Cause of the Greeks (1823) . |
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