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
 | George Joseph Donahue - 1927 - 240 pages
...that he is an unbeliever himself. — Sermons, Parlous, i. ON REALISING WHAT WE READ Let us consider how differently young and old are affected by the...such as Homer or Horace. Passages which to a boy are mere rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer... | |
 | Takeshi Saito, Edmund Blunden - Aesthetics, British - 1929 - 156 pages
...way of approaching to Poetry than this, and John Henry Newman tells us the same thing when he says, " Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces,...and, imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his flowing versification, at length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience... | |
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