John William Mackail

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; 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
  • Cf. Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "From the great deep to the great deep he goes."

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)

    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?