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ablative absolute accusative adjective adverb Ægeus afterwards ancient Aristomenes army asked Athenians Athens barbarous battle body Cæsar called Cicero civilization colonies commanded common connected consulship Croesus dative death deponent verbs despot EDWIN HALE ABBOT emphatic enemy English words expressed in Latin fact father fear feeling followed force friends genitive genius gerund gods Greece Greeks hand heroic age Hippias Homer honor idea indirect discourse infinitive instance ipse judges king land Mardonius Metellus military mind modifiers nation nobles nouns Octavian once Opicans oppidum participle Pausanias perfect Periander period Persian person Phocion phrases Plato pluperfect poetry Polemarchus political preposition pronouns quam relative clause result clause Roman Rome sailed Samnites Sardis seemed sentence shades of meaning singular Spartans subjunctive substantive tenses Theseus thing thought Thrasybulus tion tive town translated troops verb Veturia victory youth
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Page 87 - Then he comes to understand how it is that lines, the birth of some chance morning or evening at an Ionian festival, or among the Sabine hills, have lasted generation after generation, for thousands of years, with a power over the mind, and a charm, which the current literature of his own day, with all its obvious advantages, is utterly unable to rival.
Page 87 - Let us consider, too, how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification...
Page 67 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of.
Page 68 - I needed to be made to feel that there was real, permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth taught me this not only without turning away from, but with a greatly increased interest in the common feelings and common destiny of human beings.
Page 58 - Laws they are not, therefore, which public approbation hath not made- so. But approbation not only they give who personally declare their assent by voice, sign, or act, but also when others do it in their names by right originally at the least derived from them. As in parliaments, councils, and the like assemblies, although we be not personally ourselves present, notwithstanding our assent is, by reason of others agents there in our behalf. And what we do by others, no reason but that it should stand...
Page 85 - And on the twelfth day, as he was lying on the funeral pile, he returned to life and told them what he had seen in the other world. He said that when his soul left the body he went on a journey with a great company, and that they came to a mysterious place at which there were...
Page 94 - Caesars, and had acquired, together with no slight infusion of Roman blood, the language, the literature, the laws, and the civilization of Latium. Among these, and dominant over them, roved or dwelt the German victors; some retaining nearly all the rude independence of their primitive national character, others softened and disciplined by the aspect and contact of the manners and institutions of civilized life; for it is to be borne in mind that the Roman empire in the west was not crushed by any...
Page 74 - We will not destroy any Amphictyonic town, nor cut it off from running water, in war or peace : if any one shall do so, we will march against him and destroy his city. If any one shall plunder the property of the god, or shall be cognizant thereof, or shall take treacherous counsel against the things in his temple at Delphi, we will punish him with foot, and hand, and voice, and by every means in our power.
Page 87 - Perhaps this is the reason of the medieval opinion about Virgil, as if a prophet or magician ; his single words and phrases, his pathetic halflines, giving utterance, as the voice of Nature herself, to that pain and weariness, yet hope of better things, which is the experience of her children in every time.
Page 68 - I seemed to draw from a source of inward joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure, which could be shared in by all human beings; which had no connection with struggle or imperfection, but would be made richer by every improvement in the physical or social condition of mankind. From them I seemed to learn what would be the perennial sources of happiness, when all the greater evils of life shall have been removed. And I felt myself at once better and happier as I came under their influence.