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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 15: (search)
Chapter 15: An agreement in regard to the cessation of picket firing mostly young men in the army they have no Alcestis to die for them General Cooper's army moves back twenty miles, perhaps to find better grazing a rebel reconnoitering force west of the Fort General Cabell's force near Cincinnati the Indians ha We come to the final remark, that our young soldiers who are cut off when life is sweetest, and going down to their graves by the thousand almost daily, have no Alcestis to die for them. But they have proved themselves as generous as Alcestis, for they have laid down their lives for the living and unborn millions of their race. Alcestis, for they have laid down their lives for the living and unborn millions of their race. If life on the average is desirable or worth living, what an immensely greater amount of happiness there might be if the aged, who have but a short term of years before them, could die for the young. But the gift of life scarcely anyone desires to part with, though he knows he can retain it only for a short period. The old will
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
to 1830, studying with Welcker, and with both Hermann and Boeckh. In 1830 he was present at the Literary Convention held in New York, which was the first important American assemblage of professional educators, and was associated with the founding of New York University. Woolsey and others—among them, Francis Lieber—addressed the convention in defence of liberal studies. At Yale he was professor of Greek from 1831 to 1846, and president from 1846 till he resigned in 1871. He edited the Alcestis (1834), the Antigone, and the Electra (1835-37), the Prometheus (1837), and the Gorgias (1842). Like Felton, Woolsey did not train professional philologists, but did much to induct American youth into a liberal education. He exhibits the Yale sobriety and lucidity that is characteristic of his uncle, Timothy Dwight, and of his younger contemporaries, James Hadley and William Dwight Whitney; and like Lieber and Hadley he turned from the classics to political science and law. Others of th
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Capen Adams of California, the, 153 Adventures in Patagonia, 155 Adventures in the wilderness, 163 Adventures in Zuñi, 159 Aeschylus, 460 Aesop, 634 After the ball, 513 After the War, 352 Against Midias, 465 Agamemnon, 460, 465 Agassiz, Louis, 112, 209, 250, 251, 416 Aids to reflection, 228 Aiken, Albert W., 66 Aitken, Robert, 535, 536 Akers, Elizabeth, 312 Alabama, 283 Alaska, 167 Alaska and the Klondike, 167 Alaska, 1899, 166 Albee, 264 n. Alcestis, 461 Alcott, A. Bronson, 403, 404, 415, 525, 527, 528, 529, 532 Alcott, Louisa M., 404 Alden, H. M., 309, 312 Aldrich, T. B., 5, 7, 31, 34-38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 86, 267, 307, 419, 581 Alemannische Gedichte, 585 Alexandria (Theological Seminary), 219 Alfieri, 450, 460 Alice of Old Vincennes, 91 Aliens, 420 Allen, A. V. G., 220, 222 Allen, Ethan, 66 Allen, F. DeF., 462, 464 Allen, F. Sturges, 478 Allen, Henry T., 166 Allen, James Lane, 91, 95 Allen, Joseph Hen
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
when she discovers one of them to be the beloved mistress of her husband, still forgives the girl, in the agony of her own grief. I pity her most of all, she says, because her own beauty has blasted her life, ruined her nation, and made her a slave. Why is Euripides so often described as a hater of women? So far as I can see, he only puts emotions of hatred into the hearts of individuals who have been ill-used by them, and perhaps deserved it, while his own pictures of womanhood, from Alcestis downward, show the finest touches of appreciation. Iphigenia refuses to be saved from the sacrifice, and insists on dying for her country; and Achilles, who would fain save and wed her, says: I deem Greece happy in thee, and thee in Greece; nobly hast thou spoken. In the Troades, Hecuba warns Menelaus that, if Helen is allowed on the same ship with him, she will disarm his vengeance; he disputes it and she answers, t e is no lover who not always loves. What a recognition is there of the