The Classical Journal, Volume 21Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1926 - Classical philology |
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... Aeneid there are 4090 words , while in the joint vocabulary of Laing's Ovid and the first six books of the Aeneid there are , by a most remarkable coincidence , almost exactly the same , or 4085 words , a difference of five words in ...
... Aeneid there are 4090 words , while in the joint vocabulary of Laing's Ovid and the first six books of the Aeneid there are , by a most remarkable coincidence , almost exactly the same , or 4085 words , a difference of five words in ...
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... Aeneid . These difficulties are largely obviated by those who have had a preliminary training in Ovid . We would suggest for the first three years of the Latin course : ( 1 ) A beginners book based on Ovid ; ( 2 ) Selections primarily ...
... Aeneid . These difficulties are largely obviated by those who have had a preliminary training in Ovid . We would suggest for the first three years of the Latin course : ( 1 ) A beginners book based on Ovid ; ( 2 ) Selections primarily ...
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... Aeneid ; at sixty - three Long- fellow was inspired by a lecture on Vergil to render the first Eclogue into English hexameters . Dr. Holmes allowed these " first verses " of his to appear among his collected poems so that other young ...
... Aeneid ; at sixty - three Long- fellow was inspired by a lecture on Vergil to render the first Eclogue into English hexameters . Dr. Holmes allowed these " first verses " of his to appear among his collected poems so that other young ...
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... Aeneid of Virgil , which I found much more difficult , requiring all my attention . " The incident is an apt illustration of the proper handling of a gifted student . While Bryant was occupied with the Aeneid , his father wrote to him ...
... Aeneid of Virgil , which I found much more difficult , requiring all my attention . " The incident is an apt illustration of the proper handling of a gifted student . While Bryant was occupied with the Aeneid , his father wrote to him ...
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... Aeneid , arranged according to the sequence of the several books . An exception has been made in the case of quotations occurring in the Biglow Papers which are given together at the end . A suggestion of Eclogue 1 , 54 , Hyblaeis ...
... Aeneid , arranged according to the sequence of the several books . An exception has been made in the case of quotations occurring in the Biglow Papers which are given together at the end . A suggestion of Eclogue 1 , 54 , Hyblaeis ...
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Page 127 - But Jesus turned him about; and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Page 330 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 330 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 329 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Page 332 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 332 - Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 34 - I have preserved even the measure ; that inexorable hexameter, in which, it must be confessed, the motions of the English Muse are not unlike those of a prisoner dancing to the music of his chains ; and perhaps, as Dr. Johnson said of the dancirtg dog, " the wonder is not that she should do it so well, but that she should do it at all.
Page 15 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c.
Page 179 - Of the Latin historians, Tacitus was certainly the greatest. His style indeed is not only faulty in itself, but is, in some respects, peculiarly unfit for historical composition. He carries his love of effect far beyond the limits of moderation. He tells a fine story finely : but he cannot tell a plain story plainly. He stimulates till stimulants lose their power.
Page 298 - O how oft shall he On faith and changed Gods complain, and seas Rough with black winds, and storms Unwonted shall admire ! Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee, of flattering gales Unmindful. Hapless they To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me, in my vow'd Picture, the sacred wall declares to have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of sea.