 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
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...libraries ! JOHN RUSKIN, Sesame and Lilies. 155.*** WHY GREAT LITERATURE 1s IMMORTAL. 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,... | |
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