Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, who, at the age of eighty-six, after an absence of sixty years from the Halls of Harvard, had come from his residence in Philadelphia to attend this celebration. The Rev. Dr. Ripley, of Concord, of the class of 1776, and the Rev. Dr. Homer, of Newton, of the class of 1777, were followed By the Rev. Dr. Bancroft, of Worcester, and the Rev. Mr. Willis, of Kingston, of the class of 1778; and, as modern times were approached, instead of solitary individuals, twenty or thirty members of a class appeared at the summons...
Sanders Theatre was crowded last evening by an enthusiastic muslin clad band of ladies to witness the graduation of the class of '86 Cambridge Latin School. Selections from Shakespeare, Moliere, and Homer were well rendered, except for the fact that the French was difficult to distinguish from the Greek. The honors of the evening were shared by Messrs. Burnham and Henshaw, and Misses H. E. McIntyre, E. H. Bright, and M. L. Jewett...
Burnett, Liberty and Union; Daniel Webster. Hutchins, Donatello's Statue of St. George. Rogers. The Puritan Principle; Wendell Phillips. Santayana. The Prayer of Achilles to his Mother; Homer. Von Klenz, The Parting of Hector and Andromache; Homer. Webster, Daniel O'Connell; Wendell Phillips. Winter, The Prisoner of Chillon; Byron. Bowen, Cambyses and the Macrobion Bow; Paul H. Hayne. A. C. Coolidge, The Greek Revolution; Henry Clay. W. L. Currier. Abolition in 1830; W. L. Garrison, Hamilton, Home Rule; W. E. Gladstone. Stedman, Against Whipping in the Navy; Commodore Stockton. Sternbergh, A Defence of Massachusetts; Anson Burlingame. J. E. Walker...
...regarded as a whole, and that it is unjust to criticise excerpts from a story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good one. Certain it is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, no one would stop...
...strong and the expression good. "A Second Empedocles," by Mr. Sanford, is, to say the least, a strange effort. It is incongruous and decidedly lacks force. The Latin quotations mar the form and weaken the passion aimed at by the writer. One does not quote a Latin translation of Homer in the death agony; and for a Stoic to die with Horace on his lips provokes undesirable reasoning...