Word: homer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR NORTON and Professor Palmer propose to give at the Hawthorne Rooms, Warren Building, Park Street, courses of readings in English from Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Homer's "Odyssey." The courses will consist of twelve readings each, and will begin early in March...
...very feeble excuse; for if one were only to take account of the time he wastes each day, it would be found to be many times more than the one hour spent profitably in the manner described. It is another common excuse that there is no use in hearing Homer and Virgil over again when they were learned so thoroughly before coming to college. But they were not then, we claim, understood; they were merely hurried through as so much task-work. It is only in later years that the fine points of these authors are seen. In regard...
...suppose it is one of those funny alphas privative that don't mean anything sometimes, is n't it? You see," complainingly, "when I'd finished Homer, I could n't read any more Greek on account of my eyes, so I don't know as much as I ought...
...hair stood on end. I had to reply, and so misinterpreted her. "I wish," said I, "you'd finished off Homer before I began him. I burnt my copy, but to attack the old man himself was more than any but a feminine mind would have dared. Did you hang him in effigy? That might be called going it on a bust...
...most part of what is written is not worth a picayune. Now and then a man has something worth mentioning, but the average life is a very cambric-tea affair, or about as amusing reading as the directory, here and there rising to the exciting pitch of Homer's Catalogue of Ships...