Handbook of Latin WritingGinn, Heath & Company, 1884 - 101 sider |
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ablative ablative absolute accusative adjective adverb afterwards ancient Aristomenes army asked Athenians Athens barbarous battle body Cæsar called Cicero civilization colonies commanded common connected consulship contest Croesus dative death deponent verbs despot 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 legatus 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 possession 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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Side 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 connexion 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 68 - 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.
Side 67 - One of the evils most liable to attend on any sort of early proficiency, and which often fatally blights its promise, my father most anxiously guarded against. This was Self-conceit. He kept me, with extreme vigilance, out of the way of hearing myself praised, or of being led to make selfflattering comparisons between myself and others.
Side 100 - — but at all moments it is moving centreward, fast as is convenient for it ; sinking, sinking ; and, by laws older than the World, old as the Maker's first Plan of the World, it has to arrive there.
Side 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...
Side 87 - 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, at length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him, as if he had never before known them, with their sad earnestness and vivid exactness.
Side 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.
Side 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.