Word: rome
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Permitted to assemble once more with the hearts we fondly cherish, allow me to tender my best wishes for all the pleasant influences which this day's association present, and for the cheerful faces I see around me . . . . We feel that the gorgeous triumphs of Rome would bashfully gaze upon our enchanting May-day celebration...
...have received an exceedingly neat little book containing the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which Dr. Smith, in his History of Rome, classes among the most delightful productions of the human intellect. The name of the translator, known to us all through his Ancient Atlas, is a sufficient guaranty of the manner in which the translation has been made. We have room but for one extract. It applies particularly to those who find difficulty in going to prayers...
...stories of Arthur and his Court have remained to the present day, not exploded, as many similar myths have been, but forming a prominent group of legends, containing not a little truth, and as marked in the history of Britain as any of the tales of ancient Rome. The subject must always be wrapped in considerable obscurity, but, according to the best authorities, Arthur lived about 500 A. D. His exploits, and the fabulous tales arising from them, were sung in French romances, by English poets, and related by historians of the Middle Ages...
...first treats entirely of Arthur, relating his birth, his subjection of Britain, the war with Rome, and his death in the last battle with the traitor, Sir Modred. This work was afterwards versified, and was much amplified and adorned. Sir Thomas Malory devotes most of his book to Merlin, Lancelot, the Sangreal, and Guinevere. The two histories coincide only in regard to the birth of Arthur, the Roman Expedition, and the final battle; the first is almost entirely the life of Arthur alone, and in the second Lancelot is the chief figure, and more prominence is given to other knights...
...fault, or the name of Khayyam ought scarcely to be mentioned in the same breath as Hafiz. All those who are interested in Persian literature are recommended to read all of Hafiz's odes and his Sakinamah and Menghanninamah, and to compare them with the best pieces of Rome and Greece. They are probably the best specimens of all Oriental literature, and are as far above Omar Khayyam as heaven is above earth...