Word: pompeian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture. The House of Vettius, the latest Pompeian Excavation (illustrated with lantern slides). Professor Morgan. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Lecture. The House of Vettius, the latest Pompeian Excavation (illustrated with lantern slides). Professor Morgan. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...life, stretched like a talking wire to bring the wisdom of antiquity into communion with the present, can at last yield us no better news than the true accent of a Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls of a brothel by some Pompeian idler. And it is certainly true that the material of thought reacts upon thought itself. Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley. A man is known, says the proverb...