 Let us consider, too, 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...  Catholic World - Página 2861906Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 páginas
...| and old | are affected | by the words | of some classic | author, | such | as Homer) or Horace. | Passages, | which to a boy | are but | rhetorical...| supply, | which he gets | by heart | and thinks j very fine, and imitates, j as he thinks, | successfully, | in his own | flowing | versification,... | |
 | 1913 - 700 páginas
...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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 266 páginas
...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,...length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him, as if he had never before known them, with their... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 266 páginas
...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,...length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him, as if he had never before known them, with their... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 272 páginas
...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,...length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him, as if he had never before known them, with their... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 páginas
...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,...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,... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1919 - 432 páginas
...says, " how differently young and old are affected by some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces,...length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him as if he had never before known them, with their... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 páginas
...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,...length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him, as if he had never before known them, with their... | |
 | Irving Babbitt - 1919 - 462 páginas
...Newman says, affected very differently by the words of some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. " 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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 páginas
...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,...length come home to him, when long years have passed, and he has had experience of life, and pierce him, as if he had never before known them, with their... | |
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