Notes for Latin Lyrics

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Excerpt from Notes for Latin Lyrics: With a Preface This work, which has long been used at Harrow and the chief public schools, is designed to supply a want very sensibly felt among elementary aids to classical composition. It has long been found that original effusions, though a salutary and indispensable stimulus to the imagination, are far more adapted for the occasional than the regular exercise of schoolboys. At such an age, original composition exhausts too rapidly its own resources, the same images and phrases are repeated with wearisome monotony, idle epithets and adverbs are gratuitously intruded to fill up the chinks of a line, the conceptions are destitute of accuracy, the imagery of variety, the language of novelty. Hence the origin of the present and other systematic collections of "verse-notes, " as a relief to the master and an aid to the pupil. Among the exercises in the Two First Parts are several compositions by the Hon. and Very Rev. W. Herbert, Dean of Manchester, Dr. Charles J. Blomfield, late Lord Bishop of London, Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Canon of Westminster, the present Earl of Ripon, the second Marquis of Hertford, K.G., Dr. Lonsdale, Lord Bishop of Lichfield, Dr. John Keate, formerly Head Master of Eton, Dr. Samuel Butler, Mr. Gisborne, &c., , &c., About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.