The Classick Pages: Classical Reading of Eighteenth-century AmericansMeyer Reinhold Pennsylvania State University, 1975 - 231 pages |
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Page 63
... appear that the motto of Phi Beta Kappa , founded in 1776 , Philosophia Biou Kybernêtês , was derived from this passage in Cicero . Edward Fitch , “ Phi Beta Kappa , " Class . Wkly 2 ( 1909 ) 143 ; and Oscar M. Voorhees , The History of ...
... appear that the motto of Phi Beta Kappa , founded in 1776 , Philosophia Biou Kybernêtês , was derived from this passage in Cicero . Edward Fitch , “ Phi Beta Kappa , " Class . Wkly 2 ( 1909 ) 143 ; and Oscar M. Voorhees , The History of ...
Page 72
... appear , And wintry Jove loud thunders o'er the Year , With Hounds he drives into the Toils The foaming Boar , and triumphs in his Spoils : Or for voracious Thrushes lays His Nets , and with delusive Baits betrays ; Or artful sets the ...
... appear , And wintry Jove loud thunders o'er the Year , With Hounds he drives into the Toils The foaming Boar , and triumphs in his Spoils : Or for voracious Thrushes lays His Nets , and with delusive Baits betrays ; Or artful sets the ...
Page 144
... appear in eighteenth - century booksellers ' catalogues or in private libraries , and they were never performed on the American stage . ' Characteristic is the complete silence regarding the dramatists of antiquity on the part of an ...
... appear in eighteenth - century booksellers ' catalogues or in private libraries , and they were never performed on the American stage . ' Characteristic is the complete silence regarding the dramatists of antiquity on the part of an ...
Contents
The Cult of Antiquity in America | 1 |
THESE GREAT MASTERS | 29 |
Florus | 35 |
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