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 - Página 91927Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Charles Beard - 1870 - 626 páginas
...vividness of apprehension, without being seen or felt. " Let us consider how differently young and old arc affected by the words of some classic author, such...come home to him, when long years have passed, and ho has had experience of life, and pierce him as if he had never before known them, with their sad... | |
| 1870 - 628 páginas
...intellectually admitted without vividness of apprehension, without being seen or felt. " Let us consider how differently young and old are affected by the...successfully in his own flowing versification, at length come homo to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him as if he... | |
| 1871 - 902 páginas
...noticing, the that the same proposition may be apprehended both notionally and re " Let us consider, too. how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, su* ,cr or Horace, passages which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse... | |
| Horace - 1881 - 420 páginas
...wisdom carry home to those who have had a large experience of life ! " Let us consider, " he says, ' ' how differently young and old are affected by the...which any clever writer might supply ; which he gets byheart, and thinks very fine, and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification,... | |
| James Hibbert - 1882 - 60 páginas
...consider, too, the real benefit which we owe .to classic teaching in our schools and colleges. We know how differently young and old are affected by the...classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, says Cardinal Newman, which to a boy, are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than... | |
| Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1883 - 842 páginas
...really literary mind will appreciate it. " Let us consider how differently young and old are affeeted by the words of some classic author, such as Homer...flowing versification, at length come home to him, when lonely years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him, as if he had never before... | |
| Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 páginas
...up the pale olive, till the JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801-1890) THE IMMORTAL CLASSICS LET us consider too, how differently young and old are affected by the...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... | |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1901 - 300 páginas
...in the course of it, a fine passage from the Grammar of Assent, in which Cardinal Newman points out how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, which come back to a man after he has had experience of life, ing or evening at an Ionian festival,... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1905 - 328 páginas
...this subject I cannot refrain from quoting a singularly beautiful passage from Newman: Let us consider how differently young and old are affected by the...and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own flowingversification, at length come home to him when long years have passed and he has had experience... | |
| 1906 - 956 páginas
...preparation — this is to convert the notional into the real, or, in other words, to practice meditation. "Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces,...length come home to him, when long years have passed, as he has had experience of life, and pierce him, as if he had never before known them, with their... | |
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