Historical Work
His principal work was A History of the Romans under the Empire, in seven volumes, which came out between 1850 and 1862. He wrote several smaller historical works, and published sermons, lectures and Latin verses. Merivale as an historian cannot be compared with Edward Gibbon, but he takes an eminently common-sense and appreciative view. The chief defect of his work, inevitable at the time it was composed, is that he relies on literary gossip rather than on factual evidence. The dean was an elegant scholar, and his rendering of the Hyperion of John Keats into Latin verse (1862) has received high praise.
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