I could not bear Euripides at college. I now read my recantation. He has faults undoubtedly. But what a poet! The Medea, the Alcestis, the Troades, the Bacchæ, are alone sufficient to place him in the very first rank.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I could not bear Euripides at college. I now read my recantation. He has faults undoubtedly. But what a poet! The Medea, the Alcestis, the Troades, the Bacchæ, are alone sufficient to place him in the very first rank." in the context of "Thomas Babington Macaulay to Thomas Flower Ellis (8 February 1835), quoted in George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume I (1876), p. 431" to mean that wisdom is timeless.