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...baser consolations, it is also one of the most disheartening concomitants of long life, that we get used to everything. Two things, perhaps, retain their freshness more perdurably than the rest,- the return of spring, and the more poignant utterances of the poets. And here, I think, Wordsworth holds his own with the best. But how much of his poetry is likely to be a permanent possession? The answer to this question is involved in the answer to a question of wider bearing,- What
...Grand Army post would like, if it were quite agreeable to the students, to take part in any observance which shall be made, and it is safe to say that all students would welcome their cooperation. If the observance takes the form of a meeting in Sanders Theatre, we think that it would be better not to have it so long as was the one of last year. A few simple words, and music are all that the occasion needs. The one purpose of the meeting would be to bring vividly to the minds of the students now within Harvard...
Chaucer's language has more French in it than this, and yet much less than is commonly taken for granted, and I think that one great reason for it is to be found in his different system of versification. His measures and rhymes and the greater nicety of ear demanded by them would lead him naturally to a choice of words which would give him a greater number of vowel-sounds and a greater variety of endings. Yet, if we take the beginning of the Romance of the Rose, which, being a translation from the French, would be as likely...
...things, I think, are clear: that it is impossible to put our finger upon the exact point of time when the speech of England became what we understand under the name English, and that a language existed as early as three centuries and a half after the Norman conquest which is perfectly comprehensible to us and which differs from our own only in being archaic...
...kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing thought to English speaking people. Thousands of persons can express thought in Latin and millions can use quotational tags of it, but only a few ecclesiastics are moved to think in the forms of the language...