Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as the delight of London. A single translation made him rich; he was bribed to write and believed to be silent. Pope had a full quiver, and all his barbs went home. Today he is damned, even by the now enthusiasts for Dryden, and not even with faint praise. The Vagabond in fact is making a pilgrimage to Sever 11 where Professor Greenough is speaking on Pope, principally to see a man who has actually read not only the "Rape of the Lock" and the "Dunciad," but even "Windsor Forest" and the Epistles. The occasion will be a salutary...
...saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences of a woman called Eliza, and he persevered. A rocker creaked, but the jaded cushion was anctuary. And the Vagabond answered a fool who wrote "Wouldst thou eat thy cake and have it?"--with a loud gulp...
...Murray (1919). Scholastically, Shaw's translation ("made from the Oxford text, uncritically") may not please Homeric scholiasts. "I have not pored over contested readings, variants, or spurious lines. . . . Wherever choice offered between a poor and a rich word richness had it, to raise the color." Literarily, Shaw's faint praise of "the first novel of Europe," his strictures on its author, may damn him in the eyes of the orthodox. Shaw's inverted English modesty, which will not let him believe in heroes, which makes him deprecate the importance of anything he himself has been concerned with, is indicated...
...noon sunlight of a clear, biting November day showed the air of the class-room in Sever to be a bit dustier, the walls a bit dingier, the benches a bit more battle-scarred than could have been suspected in the morning half-light. The instructor listened with a faint boredom to the halting translation which mangled one of the better odes of Horace, and from time to time made impatient corrections in the well-modulated clipped syllables which only an Englishman can acquire from Oxford. As he turned the pages with his pale fingers he wondered vaguely what sort...
...have been shaped under its influence. Boys start in the secondary school as candidates for football glory. They are steered into a football career in college, where they are worked to the full limit of their physical powers, showered with demoralizing publicity, and are able to catch but a faint vision of the intellectual life for which the college is supposed to stand (and sometimes does). The practical problem is to rescue these boys from the football regime and substitute something else which will bring the college just as much money...