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...poetry. But in most of the accompanied parts of the play the music is set to the Latin measure and this makes it necessary for the speaker to follow that measure as it existed in Latin. And thus we may get approximately, at any rate, the effect of ancient classic verse. Thus the play becomes a study in ancient poetry as well. In the modern delivery of poetry the verse as a strain or melodic phrase is almost lost sight of. "John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave. His soul is marching on," represents in a manner...
...most English speaking people, even college graduates, a Latin classic consists of ideas with which he has become familiar in some other form and now recognizes through a clumsy set of symbols. The words do not suggest parts of ideas that unite as they proceed into larger and larger groups, but are mere signs as much as O. K. and C. O. D. That a Latin sentence was really an instrument of thought and expression, saying something directly as it went along, hardly enters their heads. And even a play, in which people have real emotions, talk, make bargains...
...anticipated, but, at present, the foundations of the building are practically completed and the brick work will be commenced next week. The museum, which will be as nearly fire-proof as possible, will be constructed of buff Indiana limestone and the style of architecture is an adaptation of the classic. It will be two stories in height and will have a front of 115 feet and a depth of about 114 feet. The building will be divided into two main sections; the front of the building, which will be subdivided into smaller rooms and the rear, which will...
...this kind of fastidiousness I think one may and should exercise in regard to books. Cum bonis ambula, said Cato speaking of men, and one may say of books, keep company with the best. It was because the men of the century from 1550 to 1650 were confined to classic society in books, that their minds and styles acquired a dignity of gait and gesture which is now, in the fool's paradise of novels and newspapers, obsolete...
...Correggio we find the consummation of the period. The beauty of the classic and religious motives appear to perfection in his paintings. His characters were sensuous but never sensual. Correggio was litte affected by the great movements of his time. He was one of the very greatest of the Renaissance painters, and it is a singular thing that he painted and died almost in obscurity...