Illinois English Bulletin, Volúmenes7-10

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Illinois Association of Teachers of English., 1914
 

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Página 6 - English apprehensions. And, indeed, if elegancy still proceedeth, and English pens maintain that stream we have of late observed to flow from many, we shall, within few years, be fain to learn Latin to understand English, and a work will prove of equal facility in either.
Página 12 - Or I might have poured forth poetic strains which would have anticipated theory and seemed a voice from " the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming of things to come.
Página 12 - Why, Sir, that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" "Sir, (said the boy) I would give what I have.
Página 16 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 5 - He's gone. I do not understand. I only know That as he turned to go And waved his hand In his young eyes a sudden glory shone: And I was dazzled by a sunset glow, And he was gone.
Página 6 - Pastoralis, and in English the Shepherd's Book, sometimes word by word, sometimes sense by sense, as I learnt it from Plegmund my archbishop, and from Asser my bishop, and from Grimbold my mass-priest, and from John my mass-priest.
Página 13 - Latin is the one royal road to a knowledge of all that is finest in letters and art." "A student's ability to read a page of Shakespeare varies directly with the number of years in which he has studied Latin." '"No boy well trained in Latin and Greek composition ever found difficulty in expressing himself clearly in English.
Página 10 - How canst thou thus for shame, Titania, Glance at my credit with Hippolyta, Knowing I know thy love to Theseus? Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night From Perigenia, whom he ravished? And make him with fair AEgle break his faith, With Ariadne and Antiopa?
Página 12 - Pray mind your Greek particularly, for to know Greek very well is to be really learned : there is no great credit in knowing Latin, for everybody knows it ; and it is only a shame not to know it.
Página 6 - A conscience more divine than we, A gladness fed with secret tears, A vexing, forward-reaching sense Of some more noble permanence ; A light across the sea, Which haunts the soul and will not let it be, Still beaconing from the heights of undegenerate years.

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