There are consequently many pages in his dialogues which do not interest a modern reader, seeing that we have outlived the conditions of thought that rendered them important.
Bellarmino's censure of the Pastor Fido strikes a modern reader as inexplicably severe.
But many other rules of the day seem just as ridiculous to a modern reader.
Spinsters It is a source of astonishment to a modern reader to find at what a youthful age girls of colonial days became brides.
It is impossible for a modern reader to reproduce the rhythmical flow of passages which must have depended a good deal for their effect on the musical accompaniment, and on the pronunciation of the actor.
Yet a modern reader, without accepting the conclusions of his philosophy, may sympathise with much of his spirit.
Neither the fragments nor the ancient notices of Pacuvius produce on a modern reader so distinct an impression of his peculiar genius and character as may be formed of Naevius, Ennius, and Lucilius.
Virgil's contemporaries, in a way which they cannot be for a modern reader, with the memories of foreign travel or of residence in remote provinces, or with the interest attaching to lands recently made known.
In the case of Virgil, it is not possible, at all events for a modern reader, distinctly to separate them.
Such allusions came much more home to an ancient than to a modern reader.
Six years later Lessing's pamphlet on the Education of the Human Race appeared, couched in the form of aphoristic statements, and to a modern reader, one may venture to say, singularly wanting in argumentative force.
An inference from all this, obvious to a modern reader, would be that in the future there will be similar oscillations, and new inventions and discoveries as remarkable as any that have been made in the past.
The allusion to bear-bating in the concluding stanza may offend the delicacy of a modern reader; but let it be remembered that in the days of Mary, and even of Elizabeth, this amusement was accounted "sport for ladies.
Coming in the midst of so much poetical convention it takes a modern reader by surprise; he expected romantic idealism and he finds clear character-drawing.
But if those Manners and Customs, which Theophrastus alludes to, were, in his Time, well known to the meanest Athenian, it does not follow that they are now so well known to a modern Reader.
When a Translator of an antient Author intends to preserve the peculiar Character of the Original, Notes become absolutely necessary to render the Translation intelligible to a modern Reader.
Chaucer's English is nearly as easy for a modern reader as Shakspere's, and few of his words have become obsolete.
The praises of the queen, which sound through {78} all the poetry of her time, seem somewhat overdone to a modern reader.
But the most interesting of Marlowe's plays, to a modern reader, is the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
The praises of the queen, which sound through all the poetry of her time, seem somewhat overdone to a modern reader.
It is difficult for a modern reader to believe that even Rymer could refer to the Paradise Lost as 'what some are pleased to call a poem'; or that Dr.
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