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...present English. Even without the Conquest something similar, though not identical, would have taken place, for the Saxon was rapidly changing and would have ended, what with the processes incident to all living languages, and the introduction of Latin at the revival of learning, in something nearer to modern English than to the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf...
...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 the modern delivery of poetry. In Latin it would be, "JohnBrown'sbody liesamoulderingin thegrave. Hissoulismarchingon." The attempt...
...true that all the modern nations have essentially pronounced Latin according to the sounds of their own language, but no one has departed so far from the original as the English. Others have changed a few consonantal sounds, in accordance with the usage even of the early centuries of our era, but the vowels have been preserved by them without significant change. In English, however, no sound is sufficiently preserved to be understood by an ancient Roman. It was this ultra perversion of the Roman sounds that led to the adoption of the present system. As a change was necessary...
...believe that patriotism, despite all its modern caricatures at the hands of sentimentality and hypocrisy, will never be too commonplace to be honored; and that any institution of culture, unless its culture is simply dilettant, will always be eager to pay its due share of honor. Harvard owes a public recognition of sympathy in the inauguration of the holiday, and, in the name of the great body of students, we appeal to the gentlemen who are members of the Corporation to declare next Thursday a holiday throughout the University...
...flavor and charm, is representative of this period of his writing. He later handled more numerous characters, surrounded by more complicated circumstances. In this class of his writings he introduces together with realistic detail, a type which is brought out and emphasized by his skill in individualizing character. "A Modern Instance" is an example of this style of novel and although furiously attacked for the grim and sordid tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them...