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GLOBE.-Emma Abbott Grand English Opera Company in "Patience...
GLOBE. - Emma! Abbott Grand English Opera Company in "Somnambula...
...English Literature." Mr. Perry. Sever...
...series of articles on "Oxford and English Education" well illustrates the traditional Harvard partiality for that ancient mother of scholars. A learned and enthusiastic vindication of classical studies is combined with this glorification of Oxford. Indeed, the enthusiasm for the classical literature of Greece, Rome and England displayed in this volume by the Harvard students of 1810, strikes the modern reader as altogether unique - a matter for wonder and admiration in these days of laborious learning and little literature. Indeed, one may find in this early Harvard literature evidence that that revival in letters which was progressing so actively...
...little the defect of our execution, as the object of our ambition." Very bitterly they continue: "The world without cares for nothing but politicks and commerce and news; it is a money-making, quarrelsome world of vandals; it cannot understand our Latin nor our Greek, and it thinks our English not worth reading; it scorns our literature, and, if it have any regard for our science, it is because it teaches to steer ships and to print newspapers." A miserable world truly; and let us rail on Lady Fortune in good terms, in good set terms, my poor Jaques...