Word: virgil
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...Course 54, given by Mr. Ropes, includes a study of the Acts of the Apostles. Professor Morgan will offer half-course 50, a consideration of Roman satire from Ennius to Juvenal. During the first half-year, Professor Allen will give course 47, on the Bucolics and the Georgics of Virgil. Dr. Gulick will offer course 52 during the first half-year on Greek elegiac, iambic and lyric poetry. 39, a half-course on Roman Stoicism in the First Century will be offered during the second half-year by Mr. Parker...
Another new course of considerable interest is one in Latin for Teachers to be given by Mr. C. P. Parker. In this course methods of teaching and reading at sight will be discussed. There will also be readings of Cicero and Virgil and special attention will be paid to pronunciation and expression, and secondly to translation into idiomatic English. Proficiency in reading Cicero and Virgil will be necessary for admittance to this course...
Reason in the person of Virgil, has guided Dante through the realms of Hell and Purgatory, and has finally departed from him in the Earthly Paradise. There Revelation meets him, in the person of Beatrice, and conducts him through the seven heavens to the throne of God. The picture of Hell was one of darkness and horror; that of Purgatory was one of light, color, and hope; and that of Heaven is one of light, glory...
...poets pass on along the other ledges of sin, wrath, avarice, sluggishness, and lust. They meet on the way several former companions of Dante. Mark after mark is removed from Dante's brow, and at length they also come forth into the brilliant light of the Earthly Paradise. Here Virgil bids Dante farewell, who while mourning for his guide is consoled by the appearance of Beatrice...
...criticism will own that the principle deficiency of German poetry is in style; that for style, in the highest sense, it shows but little feeling. Take the eminent masters of style, the poets who best give the idea of what the peculiar power which lies in style is,- Pindar, Virgil, Dante, Milton. An example of the peculiar effect which these poets produce, you can hardly give from German poetry. Examples enough you can give from German poetry of the effect produced by genius, thought, and feeling expressing themselves in clear language, simple language, passionate language, eloquent language, with harmony...