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...fellow Platonists, "amiable browsers in the Medicean park," as George Eliot calls them; but, on the whole, the great aim of Italian scholars was to emulate the form of the ancients to write elegant Latin and Greek." Ciceronianism, the clothing of trifles-often filthy trifles in the purest Latinity, was the final phase of Italian scholarship.-[The National Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Development of Classical Learning. | 12/20/1884 | See Source »

...kinds of play." Mother Eton has been a good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation as this has never yet been cast upon her. We had always thought the game as played in "the Field" at Eton was the purest form of football known, the most essentially foot ball of any. On no excuse whatever may the hands be employed, except to touch the ball, when it passes behind the goal lines, to save or get a "rouge." Even the rules of the Association game, which may be described...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rise of Rugby Foot Ball in England. | 11/18/1884 | See Source »

...climax. Our patience has already been sorely tried, but the faculty have carefully kept the heaviest blow for the last. Our dear friend Columbia, with whom our experiences have been so pleasant, had to be propitiated, and this is the result embodied in few and choice words of the purest English style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHLETIC QUESTION. | 2/22/1884 | See Source »

...pronunciation, the less said the better; it is after all perhaps merely a matter of taste. But it certainly seems only fair to say that the methods employed in some of the German electives are far from accordance with the generally recognized manner of the best and purest German pronunciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/22/1882 | See Source »

...With purest voice your inmost heart was telling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO -. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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