The Classical Journal, Volume 21Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1926 - Classical philology |
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... reasons which make Ovid so desirable for high - school work are apparent when once the question is seriously considered . First of all , the Metamorphoses give the student a real introduc- tion to Latin literature and particularly to ...
... reasons which make Ovid so desirable for high - school work are apparent when once the question is seriously considered . First of all , the Metamorphoses give the student a real introduc- tion to Latin literature and particularly to ...
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... I would steal from all other di- vertissements to read them , both by reason that this was my own 4 R. K. Root , Classical Mythology in Shakespeare . natural language , the earliest book that I was acquainted OVID FOR CAESAR 15.
... I would steal from all other di- vertissements to read them , both by reason that this was my own 4 R. K. Root , Classical Mythology in Shakespeare . natural language , the earliest book that I was acquainted OVID FOR CAESAR 15.
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... be productive of real good , if for no other reason than that by the method of trial and error we might discover means of further progress . THE LEGEND OF AMPHION By ALEXANDER H. Krappe University of 20 THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL.
... be productive of real good , if for no other reason than that by the method of trial and error we might discover means of further progress . THE LEGEND OF AMPHION By ALEXANDER H. Krappe University of 20 THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL.
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... reasons had been obliged to leave their homes.26 If Apollo then plays an important part in the traditions of wall- building , it is not on account of his functions as god of civic order , but because of his character as a twin or ...
... reasons had been obliged to leave their homes.26 If Apollo then plays an important part in the traditions of wall- building , it is not on account of his functions as god of civic order , but because of his character as a twin or ...
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... reasons such as these a second class of exegetes translates thus : " suffer her to have kept it " or " suffer that she may have kept it . " So Westcott who says : " The idiom by which the speaker throws himself into the past and regards ...
... reasons such as these a second class of exegetes translates thus : " suffer her to have kept it " or " suffer that she may have kept it . " So Westcott who says : " The idiom by which the speaker throws himself into the past and regards ...
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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.