Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...FRIDAY.Seminary of Classical Philology. Paper by Mr. F. K. Ball on The Influence of the Verse on Inflexion in Virgil's Hexameters; by Mr. E. D. McCollom, on the Parable in Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode. Sever...
Petrarch was the first great figure of the Renaissance. He is distinct from Dante not it his Italian poems nor in his love for Laura, but in his being possessed by the passion of the Renaissance. Virgil is not only a guide but a master, a supreme authority, whose style, whose every peculiarity must be absorbed as must the whole spirit of Greek and Roman civilization. Petrarch assumes the Roman point of view and speaks of the barbarians, meaning the French and Germans. These were the nations who had founded great Universities, had developed Gothic architecture and had produced...
...VIRGIL RYDER, 32 Wendell St.'94 NOTICE.- The following men will be at Mrs. Belcher's today at 3 o'clock sharp to go to Providence: Stone, Gage, Borden, Garrison, Clark, Cabot, Quigley, Waters, Wrenn, Bond, McDaniel, Saltonstall, Rogers, Mackie, Fay, Thayer...
...present day, following with a sketch of their chief characteristics and remarks on the range and nature of the work in Homer which will be carried on in the freshman class. The speaker said that when the distinctly Greek civilzation passed away, Homer fell into disuse and Virgil took his place. For little was known about Homer at that time and the translations were poor. About this time spurious poems by Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian appeared and for a long time these were thought more trustworthy than the Homeric poems. In these two poems the Trojans were...
...tasks set for school boys, but rather as mighty creations that have been the inspiration of the best men for more than twenty centuries. In reading Homer, we are in noble companionship, we catch the voices that reached the ears and stirred the hearts of Pericles and Alexander, of Virgil and Milton...