Correctness of interpretation and classical nicety of style (as Mr. Panizzi observes) were the growths of a later age.
The classical reader need not be told that the whole ensuing passage, as far as the combat is concerned, is imitated from Ovid's story of Perseus and Andromeda.
Writers were now beginning to pride themselves on their classical reading.
Johnson, notwithstanding his classical predilections, was likely to take much interest in Ariosto on account of his universality and the heartiness of his passions.
A New Edition, corrected and enriched by Translations of the Classical Extracts.
Turning now to the purely classical Egyptian work, the principal discoveries of the last few years have given us new leading examples in every line.
The whole of this evidence shows that the grand age of prehistoric Greece, which can well compare with the art of classical Greece, began about 1600 B.
This idea, the result of a classical education, has taken possession of all the thinkers and great writers of our country.
In a classical sense, it is an undisputed thing that everything comes to the people from without.
For classical literature, the importance of a good general knowledge of which can hardly be overrated, J.
I have found whole pages torn out of translations, in the volumes of Bohn's Classical Library, doubtless by students wanting the translated text as a "crib" in their study of the original tongue.
Amongst others who saw them was that classical and accomplished scholar the late Professor William Richardson of Glasgow, who used to describe as a terrible dream their violent and noisy entrance into the house where he was then residing.
The connection between Rob Roy and his classicalkinsman did not end with the period of Rob's transient power.
Here, also, we cannot fail to recognize the rites of classical times lurking in the superstitions used in the cider districts of England.
We must not omit to observe that a corresponding officer appears to have formerly exercised his functions at some of the colleges at Cambridge, under the more classical title of Imperator.
Classical tradition falls in with the sacred record, and ascribes a Cretan origin to the Philistines; it is suggested, therefore, that in Gen.
Khilakku, the name of which is possibly the same as the Egyptian Khalakka, is the Cilicia Trachsea of classical geographers.
Herodotus, whence all the information of other classical writers is directly or indirectly taken.
The country of the Kurkhi appears to have included at this period the provinces lying between the Sebbeneh-Su and the mountains of Djudî, probably a portion of the Sophene, the Anzanone and the Gordyenc of classical authors.
The worship of Derketô or Atergatis at Ascalon is witnessed to by the classical writers.
This is the name whichclassical tradition ascribed to the first husband of Dido, the founder of Carthage--Sicharbas, Sichaeus, Acerbas.
The Muzri here in question is the borderland situated in the vicinity of Cilicia, probably the Sophene and the Gumathene of classical geographers.
Kummukh lay on both sides of the Euphrates and of the Upper Tigris; it became gradually restricted, until at length it was conterminous with the Commagene of classical geographers.
Yet all of them owed their development to a strictly classical training in the schools.
He was not only a classical scholar, with the limitations of those days; but, what was then rare, he made scientific attainments which greatly impressed those capable of judging, and he had a taste for art and a remarkable talent as an artist.
Joseph Huntington, a classical scholar and the pastor of the church in Coventry, entered Yale College at the age of sixteen, and graduated with high honors in a class of sixty, in September, 1773.
If she pursued a classical course, she would, at the age of twenty-one, know very little of the sciences.
Ben Jonson was a man of extensive and exact classical erudition; he was a solid scholar in the Greek and Roman literatures, in the works of the philosophers, poets, and historians.
It is to classical antiquity that we just heard Luther appeal when he referred to the “pater patriæ.
Many elements of theology were dissolved by Melanchthon’s subjective method of exegesis and by the system of philosophy he had built up from the classical authors, particularly from Cicero.
In portraiture the classical buffoon grinned and gibed at them from the tapestry; and even from his high station above the clouds Jupiter, who had ejected the offending fool of the gods, looked less stern and implacable.
Spring had come, clad in no classical garb, yet fairer than all springs; fairer even than she who walks through the myrtles of Tuscany with the graces before her and the zephyr behind.
I've been to that classicalconcert I told you about," said Leonard.
I can tell you, I enjoyed that classicalconcert this afternoon.
But Frieda, listening to Classical Music, could not respond.
His classical studies are worthless, his Life of Thackeray and his Travels are mere book-making.
But we may truly assert that he has enriched our literature with some classicalmasterpieces in the comedy of contemporary manners.
Probably the first use of that celebrated phrase--so obscure are the origins of even the most classical language!
Professor Anstey was a young man of fine classical attainments, and was the author of a work published a year or two since in Philadelphia, entitled, "Elements of Literature, or an introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and Belle Lettres.
Mr. Irving is a kinsman of "Geoffrey Crayon," and himself master of a pleasing and classical style.
He was a man of considerable classical learning, and of refined tastes.
Some of the longer classical stories and poems have been incorporated into readers, but a single set of readers cannot be made large enough to contain a quarter of the valuable reading matter which should be furnished in these grades.
One of the best collections of classical masterpieces.
Walter Savage Landor, when Laylock had become antiquated, still clung to the word, and used it with a stubborn persistence such as he alone could compass, and which seems strange in the most finished classical scholar of his day.
He certainly makes some very elegant classical allusions to flowers and fruits, and some amusingly vague ones as well.
The Spartan boy and the fox is a classical example; and Diodorus relates that in Egypt the boy who wished to become a thief was required to enrol his name with the captain of the thieves, and to turn over to him all stolen articles.
It is quite possible to make a fetish of classical learning; but Sir Henry Maine's remark, that nothing moves in the modern world that is not Greek in its origin, is quite just.
When he concluded to-night, the densely crowded galleries could not be restrained, and burst out into vehement applause; but it was a tribute to the grandly classicallanguage in which his ideas were clothed, and not to the ideas themselves.
I would not push the resemblance too far, and I use it only for illustration, not for parallel; and yet, as I bring to mind our departed friend, he seems to assume this classical figure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "classical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
