..../Eneid, seeking sortcs. And if the oracle (as is the way of oracles) replied with no very certain or encouraging voice, visions of England, at least, would...For it is the destiny of those grave, restrained, .md classic writers, with whom we make enforced and often painful acquaintanceship at school, to pass...

...'"./Sineid," seeking sortes. And if the oracle (as is the way of oracles) replied with no very certain or encouraging voice, visions of England, at least, would...white head of his father. For it is the destiny of these grave, restrained, and classic writers, with whom we make enforced and often painful acquaintance...

...roar of London, and the fireside, and the white head of his father. For it is the destiny of these grave, restrained, and classic writers, with whom we make enforced and often painful acquaintance at school, to pass into the blood and become native in the memory; so that a phrase of...

...in Herrick wachrufen: And if the oracle (as is the way of oracles) replied with no very certain or encouraging voice, visions of England, at least, would...and the fireside, and the white head of his father. (7 f.) Herrick benutzt die klassische Lektüre also ganz ähnlich wie Davis seine Trivialromane, wenn...

...remain canonical: their enduringly resonant words and allusions bridge barriers of time and culture. "It is the destiny of those grave, restrained and...enforced and often painful acquaintanceship at school," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson a century ago, "to pass into the blood and become native in the memory."94...

...the British protagonist of The Ett -Tide, returns in imagination to his native country: "[VJisions of England at least would throng upon the exile's...and the fireside, and the white head of his father" (125). Yet this Dickensian nostalgia contains no practical purpose, instead being a temporary escape...