The Classical Journal, Volume 21Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1926 - Classical philology |
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... original faculty of the University of Chicago , is retiring and will no longer have an office from which the work could be carried on . Moreover , his well - earned presidency of the Association will be no sinecure . Hence the change in ...
... original faculty of the University of Chicago , is retiring and will no longer have an office from which the work could be carried on . Moreover , his well - earned presidency of the Association will be no sinecure . Hence the change in ...
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... original , even to the punctuation . My dear Mr. Slaughter Bryn Mawr , 2 Aug. '88 Your letter of July 25 has been crowded to the wall by numerous engagements , literary , and other ; but it has not by any means been forgotten . I did ...
... original , even to the punctuation . My dear Mr. Slaughter Bryn Mawr , 2 Aug. '88 Your letter of July 25 has been crowded to the wall by numerous engagements , literary , and other ; but it has not by any means been forgotten . I did ...
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... original Latin ; which he had no doubt learned at school , where Ovid formed part of the ordinary curriculum . In one or another of his plays Shakespeare alludes to every one of the fifteen books of the Metamorphoses . The acute ...
... original Latin ; which he had no doubt learned at school , where Ovid formed part of the ordinary curriculum . In one or another of his plays Shakespeare alludes to every one of the fifteen books of the Metamorphoses . The acute ...
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... original relation to the uni- verse " could say " the foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face , we , through their eyes . " Whittier , whom we count least learned in the lore of ancient lands , writes in Miriam : " We ...
... original relation to the uni- verse " could say " the foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face , we , through their eyes . " Whittier , whom we count least learned in the lore of ancient lands , writes in Miriam : " We ...
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... original or striking to say : there was a man at Athens , who professed to be a philoso- pher ; " and the effect is by no means improved by interpreting -que 4 Cf. Tacitus , Hist . i . 22 ( et retinebitur ) , and 1. 57 ( et avaritia ) ...
... original or striking to say : there was a man at Athens , who professed to be a philoso- pher ; " and the effect is by no means improved by interpreting -que 4 Cf. Tacitus , Hist . i . 22 ( et retinebitur ) , and 1. 57 ( et avaritia ) ...
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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.