Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...least to call to mind in after years these hours of recitation, dragging so heavily as they pass. If, however, we collect no books, during our four years at Harvard, except the interlined Euripides or Juvenal, or the well-worn Philosophy, and gather no other works, either in ancient or modern languages, to form the nucleus of a private library, we let slip some of our best opportunities for literary culture...
...education to read Plato or Demosthenes lies the absurdity of the system. What I deprecate is, not that Latin and Greek are taught, but that this should be a national system, and one that is applied to all Frenchmen without distinction. In the first place I would have the ancient language pursued more seriously; that is to say, that instead of devoting eight years to the study of Greek and Latin grammar, and still failing to be able to read fluently a Greek or Latin author, half of this time should be given to the attainment of more satisfactory results...
...lonely enough in No. 43 during the first part of the following year. Few men visited me, and I would often sit for hours by the fire, thinking of former times and gazing at the ancient initials, guessing what sort of a fellow "J. C. W., 1792," was; whether he was a dig or a loafer, and whether he had a chum. I mean to go to the Library some day and learn all about J. C. W. and his college career. I have not time to tell of the long, late, lovely grinds I had here afterwards when...
...Child (Honorary Secretary for the United States) entitles any one to membership and the Society's publications for the year, among the first of which will be the first two quartos of Romeo and Juliet, Greenes Groatesworth of Wit, (1596) 'Kind-Harts Dreame' (1593), 'Englandes Mourning' Garment' (1603), Ancient Mysteries, with a Morality...
...harshly drove him from his ancient throne...