Susan Paxson

Name: A Handbook for Latin Clubs
Author: Susan Paxson

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“A Handbook for Latin Clubs”, is a work by Susan Paxson. It explores elements such as Recent Discoveries, Light of Recent and Latin.

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Susan Paxson, A Handbook for Latin Clubs

“ The magic of mere words; the mission of language; the worth of form as well as of matter; the power to make a common thought immortal in a phrase, so that your fancy can no more detach the one from the other than it can separate the soul and body of a child; it was the veiled half revelation of these things that made that old text-book forever fragrant to me. There are in it the still visible traces of wild flowers which I used to press between the pages, on the way to school; but it was the pressed flowers of Latin poetry that were embalmed there first. These are blossoms that do not fade. ”

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“ I was once asked by a doctor of divinity, who was also the overseer of a college, whether I ever knew any one to look back with pleasure upon his early studies in Latin and Greek. It was like being asked if one looked back with pleasure on summer mornings and evenings. No doubt those languages, like all others, have fared hard at the hands of pedants; and there are active boys who hate all study, and others who love the natural sciences alone. ”

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“ All English poetry that I had yet learned by heart—it is only children who learn by heart, grown people "commit to memory"—had not so awakened the vision of what literature might mean. Thenceforth all life became ideal....
Then human passion, tender, faithful, immortal, came also by and beckoned. "But let me die," she said. "Thus, thus it delights me to go under the shades." Or that infinite tenderness, the stronger even for its opening moderation of utterance, the last sigh of Aeneas after Dido,—
Nec me meminisse pigebit Elissam
Dum memor ipse mihi, dum spiritus hos regit artus.... ”

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“ I never saw a girl more cheerful, more lovable, more worthy of long life—nay, of immortality. She had not yet completed her fourteenth year, and she had already the prudence of an old woman, the gravity of a matron, and still, with all maidenly modesty, the sweetness of a girl. ”

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“ Indeed, it is a hasty assumption, that the majority of boys hate Latin and Greek. I find that most college graduates, at least, retain some relish for the memory of such studies, even if they have utterly lost the power to masticate or digest them. "Though they speak no Greek, they love the sound on't." Many a respectable citizen still loves to look at his Horace or Virgil on the shelf where it has stood undisturbed for a dozen years; he looks, and thinks that he too lived in Arcadia.... ”

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“ THE ROMAN FORUM
"In many a heap the ground
Heaves, as if Ruin in a frantic mood
Had done its utmost. Here and there appears,
As left to show his handiwork, not ours,
An idle column, a half-buried arch,
A wall of some great temple."
—Rogers
The Topography of the Forum.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. P. 82.
A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. Pp. 21, 43.
The Remains of Ancient Rome. J. H. Middleton. Vol. i, p. 231.
Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 636.
The Roman Capitol.
Eugene Lawrence. Harper's Magazine. Vol. xliv, p. 570. ”

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“ SOME RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS
"In the house of every Greek and Roman was an altar; on this altar there had always to be a small quantity of ashes, and a few lighted coals. The fire ceased to glow upon the altar only when the entire family had perished; an extinguished hearth, an extinguished family, were synonymous expressions among the ancients."
—De Coulanges
The Pagan Religion.
Society in Rome under the Caesars. William Ralph Inge. Chap. i.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, Chap. i.
Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero. W. Warde Fowler. Chap. xi. ”

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“ What great thoughts were found within these pages, what a Roman vigor was in these maxims! "It is Roman to do and suffer 67 bravely." "It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country." "He that gives himself up to pleasure, is not worthy the name of a man."... ”

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“ THE PRAYER OF SOCRATES
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BY THE ROMAN ROAD
"Poetry and paganism do not mix very well nowadays. The Hellenism of our versifiers is, as a rule, not Greek; it is derived partly from Swinburne and partly from Pater. ”

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“ She obeyed the physicians, encouraged her father and sister, and, when all strength of body had left her, kept herself alive by the 111 vigor of her mind. This vigor lasted to the very end, and was not broken by the length of her illness or by the fear of death; so leaving, alas! to us yet more and weightier reasons for our grief and our regret. ”

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“ Tristissimus haec tibi scribo, Fundani nostri filia minore defuncta, qua puella nihil umquam festivius, amabilius, nec modo longiore vita sed prope immortalitate dignius vidi. Nondum annos quattuor decem impleverat, et iam illi anilis prudentia, matronalis gravitas erat, et tamen suavitas puellaris cum virginali 110 verecundia. ”

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“ The Advantages that accrue from a Classical Education. Caroline R. Gaston. Education. Vol. xxiii, p. 351.
The Value of Greek and Latin to the Medical Student. Victor C. Vaughan. School Review. Vol. xiv, p. 389.
Latin and Greek in American Education. Francis W. Kelsey. Chap. iv.
The Place of the Humanities in the Training Of Engineers.
Latin and Greek in American Education. Francis W. Kelsey. Chap. iv.
The Value of the Humanistic Studies as a Preparation for the Study of Engineering. Herbert C. Sadler. School Review. Vol. xiv, p. 400.
The Value of Latin as a Training for Practical Life. ”

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“ Houghton, Mifflin Co., for After Construing, A Roman Mirror, Enceladus, and the poems of John G. Saxe; The Chautauqua Press, for Capri and the Translations of Horace's Odes; Charles Scribner's Sons, for the Assembly of the Gods, Cerberus, the Harpy, A Plea for the Classics, and Malum Opus; The American Book Company, for Cupid and the Bee; Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., for A Christmas Hymn; New England Magazine, for the Fall of Rome; Little, Brown and Company, for the translation of Dies Irae; The Outlook Company, for the Prayer of Socrates ”

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“ Rome's Gift to Us.
The Indebtedness of the English Language to the Latin. Federico Garlanda. Chautauqua. Vol. xi, p. 10.
A First Year Latin Book. (Introduction.) Wm. Gardner Hale.
The Value of Latin as a Training for the Lawyer.
Bulletin of the Missouri State Normal School (1909) . P. 17.
Will Latin follow Greek out of the High School. Joseph P. Behm. Classical Weekly. Vol. vii, p. 25.
Poem.—A Plea for the Classics. Eugene Field.
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POMPEII
"There is nothing on the earth, or under it, like Pompeii."
—W. D. Howells
Poem.—Pompeii.
Poetical Works. Mrs. Sigourney. P. 270. ”

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