The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837

SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE AND ANTIQUITIES. ANACREONTIC. THE AMERICAN WILD ROSE. EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD. THE SONG OF THE SHIP. MARK! NATURE. FRANCIS MITFORD. SERENADE. MOHEGAN LANGUAGE AND GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. A FAREWELL. WILSON CONWORTH. THE RED MAN. A MOTHER'S GRIEF. EYES AND LIPS. AN ALBUM FRAGMENT. SONNETS: BY 'QUINCE.' A FEW THOUGHTS ON FUNERALS. YESTERDAY. EDITING AND OTHER MATTERS. THE SEA-ROVER. RANDOM PASSAGES LAY. THE CHIEF OF HIS TRIBE. DEATH-BED REMORSE. LITERARY NOTICES. EDITORS' TABLE. The predominant taste for the study of ancient literature, and the investigation of antiquity, has been the means of bringing to light a vast quantity of matter, which, if written in modern times, would hardly be regarded of sufficient value to preserve beyond the age in which it was written. Elegance of style and composition is not the distinguishing trait in all the Grecian and Roman authors which have come down to us; nor are the subjects of sufficient importance to merit a preservation of twenty centuries; although it may be safe to say, that these qualities in general constitute the beauty and value of these writings; for we know that the ancients appreciated the works of their great men, as well as we; and to this we must owe their preservation. The philosophy of Plato and Socratesthe histories of Herodotus and Livythe poetry of Homer and Virgilthe metaphysics of Aristotlethe geometry of Euclid, and the eloquence of Cicero and Demosthenes, are not regarded now with more esteem than they were in the period in which they were produced, although the great mass of the people were far behind us in knowledge. Poetry and eloquence are as attractive to the senses of a savage, as to him who is civilized; and to this circumstance must be attributed the preservation and transmission of many poems, of people who have left no other memento of their existence. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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