Word: almost
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...follow that measure as it existed in Latin. And thus we may get approximately, at any rate, the effect of ancient classic verse. Thus the play becomes a study in ancient poetry as well. In the modern delivery of poetry the verse as a strain or melodic phrase is almost lost sight of. "John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave. His soul is marching on," represents in a manner the modern delivery of poetry. In Latin it would be, "JohnBrown'sbody liesamoulderingin thegrave. Hissoulismarchingon." The attempt has been made to approach the Latin metrical utterance, though...
...other languages that have quantity, the length of syllables is determined beforehand and even common speech has a measured cadence, a musical quality, to which rhetorical composition carefully attends, so that certain sequences are approved and others not. This difference of effect has until lately been almost entirely disregarded. And even now though many schools teach the proper method of utterance theoretically, yet it is so foreign to English modes that very rarely is a person found who knows anything about the quantitative pronunciation of Latin practically. Boys know that some syllables are long and others short, but what that...
...interesting, as an index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...
...each subtending a different angle and so modifying each other as to produce truth in the resultant impression. And even then, it is only repeated experience from different points of view which enables us to see even familiar objects precisely as they are. The same is true, nay, almost more true, of the eyes of the mind, and the defining of transient images into precise and permanent ideas, real possessions of the soul...
...desired result. The general tables might well be continued with the proposed reduction in the number of students there, but, instead of reducing the total number in the hall, the number at each club table could be raised from fourteen to eighteen. This increase at the club tables would almost exactly balance the decrease at the general tables. Some club tables already have two extra men, and suffer no inconvenience; that four extra men would destroy, or even seriously impair, the pleasant social relations now existing in the hall seems highly improbable. Certainly, even if there was a small inconvenience...