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...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...

...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...

...delicate and brilliant up the pale olive, till the JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801-1890) THE IMMORTAL CLASSICS LET us consider too, how differently young and old...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...

...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,...

...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...

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...Fortezza, ed umilitade, e largo core. " VIII ANCIENT AND MODERN CLASSICS AS INSTEUMENTS OF EDUCATION1 "LET us consider, too, how differently young and old...others which any clever writer might supply, which he fets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as e thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification,...