Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...know where they went, but after I had waited five minutes, they appeared, -Sap earnestly engaged in defending Virgil from charges of plagiarism made by Jack. So much wrapped up was he in his argument that he did not notice that I paid for him, and that Jack suppressed the programme which the boy at the door would have given...
...excuse; for if one were only to take account of the time he wastes each day, it would be found to be many times more than the one hour spent profitably in the manner described. It is another common excuse that there is no use in hearing Homer and Virgil over again when they were learned so thoroughly before coming to college. But they were not then, we claim, understood; they were merely hurried through as so much task-work. It is only in later years that the fine points of these authors are seen. In regard to Dante...
...chiefly at memorizing a vast number of words, rather than becoming familiar with the thoughts of the men who used these words as vehicles. It is too much like the school-boy fashion of memorizing the words of two hundred lines per day of the sublimest passages in Virgil, too much like what the poet Juvenal speaks of, who recited his verses standing on one foot. Such dexterity at the expense of profundity is of little...
Amateur Latin verse is all very well, if the quantities and forms are all right, and the constructions classical. But if the lines will not scan, it is of no account that they can be rattled over so as to read something like Virgil or Ovid...
...interest which you feel from being in almost personal contact with the translator. May those blessed evenings in which we communed, as it were, with the spirit of AEschylus, Homer, and Aristophanes, come again! The dullest soul that ever breathed could not listen to that spirited rendering of Virgil without his soul kindling into enthusiasm and admiration...