 first do some verses ; then Latin translation ; ' then Latin theme ; then chorus of Euripides ; ' then an English theme ; then some Plato ; ' then some Lucretius ; then some Xenophon ; ' then some Livy. What is more distressing ' than suspense ? At last...  Trinity College - Page 217by Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston - 1898 - 248 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Saint John Henry Newman, Anne Mozley - Clergy - 1891 - 524 pages
...own [men] ; did you suspect that I was one of the five ? A Worcester man was very near getting it.2 They made me first do some verses ; then Latin translation...called to the place where they had been voting; the Vice-Chancellor [the President] said -ome Latin over me ; then made a speech. The electors then shook... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs - Literary Collections - 1891 - 192 pages
...[men] ; did you suspect ' that I was one of the five ? A Worcester man ' was very near getting it. They made me ' first do some verses ; then Latin translation...called to the ' place where they had been voting ; the Vice' Chancellor [the President] said some Latin ' over me ; then made a speech. The electors ' then... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs - English literature - 1896 - 228 pages
...own [men]; did you suspect ' that I was one of the five ? A Worcester man ' was very near getting it. They made me ' first do some verses; then Latin translation;...called to the ' place where they had been voting; the Vice' Chancellor [the President] said some Latin ' over me; then made a speech. The electors ' then... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1903 - 622 pages
...own [men] ; did you suspect that I was one of the five 1 A Worcester man was very near getting it.8 They made me first do some verses ; then Latin translation...called to the place where they had been voting ; the Vice-Chancellor [the President] said some Latin over me ; then made a speech. The electors then shook... | |
 | Wilfrid Philip Ward - 1912 - 742 pages
...Selfconsciousness, shyness, and a touch of awe at the scene are visible in writing of it to his mother : ' They made me first do some verses ; then Latin translation...then an English theme ; then some Plato ; then some Xenophon ; then some Livy. What more distressing than suspense ? At last I was called to the place... | |
 | Wilfrid Ward - Cardinals - 1912 - 688 pages
...Selfconsciousness, shyness, and a touch of awe at the scene are visible in writing of it to his mother: ' They made me first do some verses; then Latin translation...then an English theme ; then some Plato ; then some Xenophon ; then some Livy. What more distressing than suspense ? At last I was called to the place... | |
 | Wilfrid Ward - Cardinals - 1912 - 1222 pages
...Selfconsciousness, shyness and a touch of awe at the scene are visible in writing of it to his mother: 'They made me first do some verses; then Latin translation;...then an English theme; then some Plato ; then some Xenophon; then some Livy. What more distressing than suspense? At last I was called to the place where... | |
 | National Catholic Educational Association - 1927 - 1442 pages
...see for yourselves what that youth of seventeen was engaged upon: "They made me first do some verses; then Latin theme; then chorus of Euripides ; then an English theme ; then some Plato ; then some Xenophon; then some Livy." This was his entrance test. But it was under this kind of test that that... | |
 | Clare Hopkins - Architecture - 2005 - 548 pages
...Lucretius, then some Xenophon, then some Livy. Most of the Latin and Greek we had to construe off to them. What is more distressing than suspense? At last I...called to the place where they had been voting: the vice-Chancellor [President Lee] said some Latin over me; then made me a speech. The Electors then shook... | |
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