Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...through the revolutions of the world, and continue to please in every climate, under every species of government, through every stage of civilization. The moderns' have been well taught by their masters; but the time is hardly yet come' when the necessity for such instruction' no longer exists. We may still borrow descriptive power' from Tacitus; dignified perspicuity' from Livy; simplicity' from Cesar; and from Homer, some portion of that light and heat' which, dispersed into ten thousand channels, has filled the world' with bright images and illustrious thoughts. Let the cultivator of modern literature' addict himself to the purest models of taste' which France, Italy, and England could supply, he might still learn from Virgil to be majestic, and from Tibullus to be tender; he might not yet look upon the face of nature' as Theocritus Baw it, nor might he reach those springs of pathos' with which Euripides softened the hearts of his audience. In short, it appears to us' that there are so many excellent reasons' why a certain number of scholars should be kept up in this, and in every civilized country, that we should consider every system of education' from which classical education was excluded, as radically erroneous, and completely absurd. Sydney Smith. He' who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last' of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers' Have swept the lines' where beauty lingers), And marked the mild' angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed, yet tender traits' that streak The languor of the placid cheek, A'nd--but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, cow; A'nd' but for that chill, changeless brow, Where cold obstruction'...
"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
Reseña del editor
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...through the revolutions of the world, and continue to please in every climate, under every species of government, through every stage of civilization. The moderns' have been well taught by their masters; but the time is hardly yet come' when the necessity for such instruction' no longer exists. We may still borrow descriptive power' from Tacitus; dignified perspicuity' from Livy; simplicity' from Cesar; and from Homer, some portion of that light and heat' which, dispersed into ten thousand channels, has filled the world' with bright images and illustrious thoughts. Let the cultivator of modern literature' addict himself to the purest models of taste' which France, Italy, and England could supply, he might still learn from Virgil to be majestic, and from Tibullus to be tender; he might not yet look upon the face of nature' as Theocritus Baw it, nor might he reach those springs of pathos' with which Euripides softened the hearts of his audience. In short, it appears to us' that there are so many excellent reasons' why a certain number of scholars should be kept up in this, and in every civilized country, that we should consider every system of education' from which classical education was excluded, as radically erroneous, and completely absurd. Sydney Smith. He' who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last' of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers' Have swept the lines' where beauty lingers), And marked the mild' angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed, yet tender traits' that streak The languor of the placid cheek, A'nd--but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, cow; A'nd' but for that chill, changeless brow, Where cold obstruction'...
"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
