Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should I detail the various shameful scenes which disgraced this voyage? Does not Virgil...
Fridays: Prof. Everett, Virgil...
...learn from this circular that there will next year be twenty-four extra courses designed especially for Bachelors of Arts; all this to be in addition to the regular elective courses, which will still be open to graduates. There will also be evening readings from Homer, the Greek Drama, Virgil, the Roman Satirists, Dante, the French Drama, Cervantes, Schiller or Goethe, Chaucer, and Shakspere, which will be given throughout the year by Professors Palmer, Goodwin, Anderson, Everett, Greenough, Norton, Bocher, Lowell, Hedge, and Child. These readings being continued through four years, with change of books or plays in each year...
...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 years to fully as great advantage. All these courses contain a large...
...farmers have made a careful study of Virgil's Georgics, and have applied his advice with astounding results. A certain poetic halo has been thrown around the most menial duties of the farm...