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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
t at the Literary Convention held in New York, which was the first important American assemblage of professional educators, and was associated with the founding of New York University. Woolsey and others—among them, Francis Lieber—addressed the convention in defence of liberal studies. At Yale he was professor of Greek from 1831 to 1846, and president from 1846 till he resigned in 1871. He edited the Alcestis (1834), the Antigone, and the Electra (1835-37), the Prometheus (1837), and the Gorgias (1842). Like Felton, Woolsey did not train professional philologists, but did much to induct American youth into a liberal education. He exhibits the Yale sobriety and lucidity that is characteristic of his uncle, Timothy Dwight, and of his younger contemporaries, James Hadley and William Dwight Whitney; and like Lieber and Hadley he turned from the classics to political science and law. Others of this generation worked at lexicography. John Pickering's Lexicon has already been mention
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
d, ein Californisches Lebensbild, 580 Golden bowl, the, 106 Golden era (San Francisco), 4, 154 Goldfaden, A., 607, 608 Goldoni, 77, 450 Goldsmith, 77, 542 Gompers, Samuel, 363 Gone with a Handsomer man, 59 Goodell, William, 136 Good Gracious, Annabelle, 296 Goodloe, D. R., 342, 351 Goodnow, F. J., 360-1 Goodrich, C. A., 477 Goodrich, S. G., 418, 548, 550, 552 n. Goodwin, J. C., 275 Goodwin, Nat, 283 Goodwin, W. W., 464, 465 Gordin, Jacob, 600, 606, 608 Gorgias, 461 Gorin, B., 600 Gorki, 606 Gottingen (University), 244, 452, 453, 454, 462, 463, 465, 484 Gott Mensch un Teufel, 608 Gottschalk, 577 Gouge, W. M., 438 Gould, Jay, 329 Gozzi, Carlo, 450 Grady, Henry W., 327 Graham's magazine, 25, 305, 549 Grammar (Murray, L.), 446 Grammar, Sanskrit (Whitney), 468 Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon language (Klipstein), 479 Grammatical Institute of the English language, 400, 475 Grand Canyon, the, 157 Grand d'espagn
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Sappho. (search)
o me often to rival Epictetus and Plutarch in eloquence and nobleness of tone. In his eighth dissertation he draws a parallel between the instruction given by Socrates to men and that afforded by Sappho to women. Each, he says, appears to me to deal with the same kind of love, the one as subsisting among males, the other among females. What Alcibiades and Charmides and Phaedrus are with Socrates, that Gyrinna and Atthis and Anactoria are with the Lesbian. And what those rivals Prodicus, Gorgias, Thrasymachus, and Protagoras are to Socrates, that Gorgo and Andromeda are to Sappho. At one time she reproves, at another she confutes these, and addresses them in the same ironical language with Socrates. Then he draws parallels between the writings of the two. Diotima says to Socrates that love flourishes in abundance, but dies in want. Sappho conveys the same meaning when she calls love sweetly bitter and a painful gift. Socrates calls love a sophist, Sappho a ringlet of words. S
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Pegram battalion Association. (search)
But these men are fighting for God, and they know no fear. In God is our help, was the battery which went up from that devoted band. The army of the invaders divides; one part remains encamped at Emmaus under Nicanor; the other part, under Gorgias, makes a detour through the mountains to surprise Judas and destroy him in his tents. This is his opportunity, and with the instinct of genius he seizes it. With the celerity of movement for which he was famous, and in which he is unequalled in ancient or in modern times, except, as I think, by the foot-cavalry of Stonewall Jackson, he descended upon the camp of Nicanor, and when Gorgias had reached the mountain top, where he expected to find his victim, he could behold the conflagration which proclaimed the rout and destruction of the main body of the invading army. Nor is he left long to brood over his disappointment. Before nightfall of that eventful day, and before he could extricate himself from that mountainous region, he i