Word: reade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very neat thing in gravestones has been discovered in New Hampshire. The stone is surmounted by a hand, pointing upwards; beneath may be read these lines: "Gone...
...purports to be a description of Oxford University; it is in reality a "home" letter of the most commonplace sort. As a private communication we refrain from criticising it; but we cannot commend the taste which places such a document before even the limited portion of the public who read the College Olio...
...biography of a great general by a great historian. Its style is essentially different from that of any prose in the preparatory or required courses, and, generally speaking, is found harder. The Satires of Juvenal are more powerful, and perhaps less amusing, than those of Horace. In reading the Georgics, it is proposed to investigate the peculiarities and difficulties of Virgil's style more thoroughly than can be done in schools, where he often receives - most illogically - the name of an easy author. If a student prefers to omit this course, Tacitus and Juvenal are usually read in the later...
...unable to take a three-hour elective. It is of a literary and philosophical character. Cicero de Finibus is generally allowed to be the finest specimen of philosophical Latin prose; it is as hard as any of Cicero's works except the strictly legal orations. It is proposed to read the first two books of this treatise; the first an exposition of Epicurus's ethics, the second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius - universally regarded as one of the hardest of Roman authors - is a young stoic...
...knew, there was but one other American on board besides myself, and he was of that kind of whom we often read, but fortunately seldom meet. The days were not long enough for him to recount the wonders he had seen and done, and all with the most utter contempt of probability and disregard of grammar. He had recently been married, - for the second or third time I should judge, - and had his wife, a blooming maiden of twenty or so, with him, and as he was between fifty-five and sixty himself, he was conducting himself as absurdly...