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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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Stand waiting for the coming of the night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PAGAN SONNET. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

YES, I'm in 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

With gratification I remember that my preparatory years were devoted exclusively to the study of the Classics. Kuhner and Harkness were my constant companions; and in the light of their wisdom my love for the ancients found being and growth. It gives me pleasure to recall the fact, that at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

America should rejoice to know that so many of her students are conditioned in Arithmetic and Modern Geography, and so few comparatively in the Classics. It evinces a commendable disregard for all things modern, and a due loyalty to the customs of our more enlightened ancestors. It is difficult to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

Of the old authors, Aristophanes is my favorite; his "Clouds," for instance. I think if I were to attend college for fifty years, and it were possible, I would annually elect this consummate work of Grecian literature. Its chastity of style, the spirit in which it was written, cannot fail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

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