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Updated: May 9, 2025
It was a delicious revival of Academe in the walks, or beneath the rustic porticoes of that little cottage the romantic philosopher and the beautiful disciple!
How I longed to remain there, and to my ardent soul how few and short seemed the days! There are the libraries in their chambers of spice, the lawns wherein every growth of learning blooms. There the meads of Academe shake to the footfall of the philosophers as they pace along: there are the peaks of Parnassus, and there is the Stoic Porch.
After all superficial contrasts have been exhausted, she may still claim the patronage of the philosopher of Academe. There are, it must be owned, few things on earth of less interest at first sight than a girl in her teens. She is a mere bundle of pale colorless virtues, a little shy, slightly studious, passively obedient, tamely religious.
At long intervals, and upon especially august occasions he had now and then attended service in the elegant church where his pew-rent was regularly paid; but not until to-day had he been attacked by the swarming reminiscences of his childhood, all eagerly babbling of the long-forgotten things once learned "At that best academe, a mother's knee."
Once more imagination plants trim orange-trees in giant jars of Gubbio ware upon the pavement where the garden of the Duchess lay the pavement paced in these bad days by convicts in grey canvas jackets that pavement where Monsignor Bombo courted 'dear dead women' with Platonic phrase, smothering the Menta of his natural man in lettuce culled from Academe and thyme of Mount Hymettus.
Instinctive recognition of this need manifests itself in a simultaneous move in the direction of universal education at government expense throughout the two continents. All the populations snatch up their satchels and hurry to school. Athens revives the Academe and reinstates the Olympic games under a literary avatar. Italy follows suit.
Once more imagination plants trim orange-trees in giant jars of Gubbio ware upon the pavement where the garden of the Duchess lay the pavement paced in these bad days by convicts in grey canvas jackets that pavement where Monsignor Bembo courted "dear dead women" with Platonic phrase, smothering the Menta of his natural man in lettuce culled from Academe and thyme of Mount Hymettus.
Whether clamouring in the Agora whether loitering in the Academe whether sacrificing to Hercules in the temple whether laughing at Hercules on the stage whether with Miltiades arming against the Mede whether with Demosthenes declaiming against the Macedonian still unmistakeable, unexampled, original, and alone in their strength or their weakness, their wisdom or their foibles their turbulent action, their cultivated repose.
An excellent good fellow; better up in politics than any man I know; understands music; means well, you can see. You two hate a man at all serious. And he doesn't bore with his knowledge. A scholar too. 'If he'll bring us the atmosphere of the groves of Academe, he may swing his ferule pickled in himself, and welcome, said Fenellan.
But they are more warlike than they were. The papers that this Academe issues now have the stamp of the Tower on them. 'The golden shower, that 'flowed from his fruitful head of his love's praise' flows no more. Fierce bitter things are flung forth from that retreat of learning, while the kingly nature has not yet fully mastered its great wrongs.
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