Word: reader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...point wherein the Oxford student has the advantage, or disadvantage as the reader may think, over the American college student, is the regulation that no one shall pursue separate courses of study until he has been at the university a year. No matter what his knowledge may be, every man is obliged to wait a year before trying to pass his "Moderations," as they are called; then, if successful, he is allowed to study "The Finals," or elective courses. Thus taking a three years' course instead of one of four years, is scarcely feasible or practicable...
...false ring in these lines makes them foolish. It is a common thing for all poetry of this kind to be written about the sea, until in truth, it becomes all "endless sea" to the reader. No poetry is so easy to write as this ; no poetry is so utterly worthless when written. The most remarkable verse we have met, one which expresses the feelings the sea stirred up in the poet, and in which the author seems to be in a sort of ecstasy of grief and woe while giving one the impression that he was "born tired...
...steps which he thought he could trace in those whom he had seen attain to genuine taste for literature. First, a period of devotion to the approved authors, attended usually without much pleasure, and frequently with much discouragement. Second, this continues (provided the discouragement does not prevail) until the reader finds some one production which really appeals to him. The author of this becomes in his estimation the only one worth reading. Third, from this he at length begins to branch out, and, having once appreciated the force of literary beauty, he gradually learns to appreciate it in other writers...
...starting point, Mr. Wendell suggested the attainment of some familiarity with English history, and the reading of some brief sketch of English literature. He also suggested several books which are likely to furnish clews which the reader will find interest in perusing ; among them are volumes of the English Men of Letters series, Ward's English Poets, and Palgrave's Golden Treasury...
...Humphries says of Professor Lanman's new book that the want has been strongly felt for a practical Sanskrit reader with graduated passages, and with such aids and explanations as would enable the student to prosecute the study of the language with only occasional, if any, assistance from a teacher. This want Professor Lanman undertook some years ago to supply, and he has performed his task with great ability and success. The writer, himself but a tyro, and a "rusty" one, in Sanskrit, has long felt the want of such a book as this, and believes it will be warmly...