...and so beautiful a description. He has just mentioned Homer and Horace as representative Classics. " Passages which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces,...very fine, and imitates as he thinks successfully, at length come home to him when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce...

...the same love of the classics that Henry Nelson Coleridge records, and in as beautiful language : " Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces,...versification, at length come home to him, when long years have past, and he has experience of life, and pierce him as if he had never before known them, with their...

...were, on different levels of ourselves. "Let us consider," writes Cardinal Newman, in a famous passage, "how differently young and old are affected by the...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...

...and so beautiful a description. He has just mentioned Homer and Horace as representative Classics. " Passages which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces,...very fine, and imitates as he thinks successfully, at length come home to him when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce...

...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...

...unwarrantable assumption. Thus the rinks of embryo journalists became overcrowded. THE GLORY OF THE CLASSICS. " Consider (says Newman) how differently young and old...versification, at length come home to him, when long yeara have passed, and be has bad experience of lifo, and p:erce him aa if he had never before known...

...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...

...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...

...directly recognized as true by ourselves. Dr Newman gives a beautiful illustration : Let us consider, too, how differently young and old are affected by the...boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better no* worse than a hondred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart and thinks...

...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,...