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more imbued with the spirit of antiquity than Swinburne with all his Greek. And why? Because he read, not to become Greek, but drawn by a passion for the same ideal beauty that made the Greeks themselves Greek. The advice of Cato, cum bonis ambula, holds as good of books as of men. If the mind, like the dyer's hand, becomes insensibly subdued to what it works in, so also may it steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against...
...than one great speaker or singer to one race. There is a New England proverb which says of a fastidious person-"the best is not good enough for him," and this kind of fastidiousness I think one may and should exercise in regard to books. Cum bonis ambula, said Cato speaking of men, and one may say of books, keep company with the best. It was because the men of the century from 1550 to 1650 were confined to classic society in books, that their minds and styles acquired a dignity of gait and gesture which...
...Brown, of Tufts College. The order and assignments of parts were as follows: Remarks by the president of the day, George Manasses Leventritt; class history, Charles Adams Kimball; music, Cheney's Orchestra of Boston; class prophecy, Chester James Wilcomb; music; address to undergraduates, George Jacobus; music; oration, Henry Cato Minton; class songs...
...Perry yesterday continued his lectures on English Literature. He devoted considerable attention to Addison's "Cato" and the dramatic tendencies of the age in connection with the rigid principles of "the three unities" in composition. The introduction of this principle into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was discussed at some length, with citations from Dr. Johnson, who seems to have given the final blow to its influence. Mr. Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services...
...love with the Classics; for how could I otherwise lay any claim to respectability? Can he be a scholar who does not know that AEmilia Secunda, the younger daughter of Lucius AEmilius Paulus, married Marcus Porcius Cato, the son of Cato Major? or that Hermogenes Tigellius was a music-teacher, probably a Greek, and perhaps an adopted son of L. Tigellius? Assuredly not. These and similar facts constitute the very basis of an education...