 | 1891 - 808 pages
...now and then, let us pause for a moment to notice how wonderfully beautiful his expression of this experience was. Let us read, as sympathetically as...only vastly greater in his knowledge of wisdom and of beauty. That was the spirit of Mr. Lowell's teaching. It opened to some of us a new world. In a... | |
 | Dante Society of America - 1892 - 570 pages
...now and then, let us pause for a moment to notice how wonderfully beautiful his expression of this experience was. Let us read, as sympathetically as...only vastly greater in his knowledge of wisdom and of beauty. That was the spirit of Mr. Lowell's teaching. It opened to some of us a new world. Ina month... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1893 - 252 pages
...now and then, let us pause for a moment to notice how wonderfully beautiful his expression of this experience was. Let us read, as sympathetically as...only vastly greater in his knowledge of wisdom and of beauty. That was the spirit of Mr. Lowell's teaching. It opened to some of us a new world. In a... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1898 - 80 pages
...would do under such circumstances; and the result of this was, as Mr. Wendell says, "at the end of a month I could read Dante better than I ever learned to read Greek or Latin or German." Remember this, gentlemen who are taking nine years to teach a boy to read Latin ; and reflect that... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1899 - 462 pages
...would do under such circumstances ; and the result of this was, as Mr. Wendell says, " at the end of a month I could read Dante better than I ever learned to read Greek or Latin or German." Remember this, gentlemen who are taking nine years to teach a boy to read Latin ; and reflect that... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...look at nothing in particular, and discourse of things in general. We gave up note-books in a week." " In a month I could read Dante better than I ever learned to read Greek or Latin or German." — Professor Barrett Wendell, in Stelligeri, p. 207. 2 In 1874, while in Europe, he wrote, " My being... | |
 | Mary Emma Woolley - 1911 - 444 pages
...now and then, let us pause for a moment to notice how wonderfully beautiful his expression of this experience was. Let us read, as sympathetically as...only vastly greater in his knowledge of wisdom and of beauty. That was the spirit of Mr. Lowell's teaching. It opened to some of us a new world. In a... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1924 - 392 pages
...now and then, let us pause for a moment to notice how wonderfully beautiful his expression of this experience was. Let us read, as sympathetically as...I ever learned to read Greek, or Latin, or German. Thus it was not only what Barrett Wendell learned about Dante from Lowell, — and through that he... | |
 | 1898 - 1062 pages
...would do under such circumstances ; and the result of this was, as Mr. Wendell says, "at the end of a month I could read Dante better than I ever learned to read Greek or Latin or German." Remember this, gentlemen who are taking nine years to teach a boy to read Latin; and reflect that Mr.... | |
 | 1898 - 1068 pages
...would do under such circumstances ; and the result of this was, as Mr. Wendell says, "at the end of a month I could read Dante better than I ever learned to read Greek or Latin or German." Remember this, gentlemen who are taking nine years to teach a boy to read Latin ; and reflect that... | |
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... a human being, dead and gone these five centuries. Let us try, as best we might, to see what life had meant to this man; let us see what relation his experience, great and small bore to ours; and, now and then, let us pause for a moment to notice... 
