 Newman) how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 91927Full view - About this book
 | John Joseph Toohey - 1906 - 246 pages
...CLARKE, DR. SAMUEL: quoted, 313; 315. CLASSICS: young and old are differently affected by the words of a classic author, such as Homer or Horace; passages,...hundred others which any clever writer might supply, at length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce... | |
 | Thomas Herbert Warren - Poetry - 1909 - 344 pages
...largo core. " VIII ANCIENT AND MODERN CLASSICS AS INSTEUMENTS OF EDUCATION1 "LET us consider, too, how differently young and old are affected by the...others which any clever writer might supply, which he fets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as e thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification,... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 pages
...undeniable thai art did much more. The Office and Work of Universities THE CLASSICS Let Us consider too, how differently young and old are affected by the...to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither bolter nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1912 - 648 pages
...occupied almost exclusively by his parents. CHAPTER III BOULOGNE— LUCERNE— MILAN (1861-1862) " How differently young and old are affected by the...and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own II jwing versification, at length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience... | |
 | Books - 1907 - 156 pages
...in common Hie and familiar things, the objects for hopeful labour and for humble love. * * * John H. Newman. — How differently young and old are affected...supply, which he gets by heart and thinks very fine, at length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 pages
...of note with the passage above cited from Thackeray on the Ionian ruins : Let us consider, | too, | how differently | young | and old | are affected |...| supply, | which he gets | by heart | and thinks j very fine, and imitates, j as he thinks, | successfully, | in his own | flowing | versification,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1913 - 700 pages
...of the older classics in words that may be applied with little change to those of the modern world : Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces,...hundred others, which any clever writer might supply .... at length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - English language - 1915 - 156 pages
...perfection. MILTON (10), Areopagitica. 62. Movement varying gradually (IV B 3).— Let us consider, too, how differently young and old are affected by the...successfully, in his own flowing versification, at length comes home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him,... | |
 | Elocution - 1920 - 434 pages
...feet."88 Cardinal Newman offers one of the finest examples of rhythm in speech : "Let us consider too, how differently young and old are affected by the...words of some classic author such as Homer or Horace." The following sentence of Thackeray's shows also, that rhythm in speech varies as well as it does in... | |
 | Irving Babbitt - Romanticism - 1919 - 462 pages
...full meaning only to the mature. Young and old are, as Cardinal Newman says, affected very differently by the words of some classic author, such as Homer...hundred others which any clever writer might supply ... at length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and... | |
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