Read Along With Us
I am having to reread a lot of Victorian literature for this year’s Sumer School. If anyone wishes to join me, we can have some brief discussions. I am starting with Trollope’s rather dark novel, The Way We Live Now.
Author: Thomas Fleming
Poems: Two by Matthew Arnold
Two fine poems by Matthew Arnold who bravely spent his life upholding decency and high standards in a world that was abandoning them.
Italian III.15. Prepositions with infinitives, and taking time
Back from Italy and feeling the relief at not having to speak Italian all day long.
Grammar I: Infinitives are, as we all learned, verbal nouns.
Making War Hell
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;
Rainbow Stew
Merle Haggard was anything but a political thinker—or even a particularly good songwriter—but, with the exception of one unfortunate line—his 1981 hit song “Rainbow Stew” summed up the common wisdom of disgruntled Americans.
The Empire’s Attic and Welcome to Arezzo
I had already seen, in every major town that fell under Florentine occupation, the visible signs of Florentine tyranny in the glowering fortresses built by the Medici dukes.
Hellish Arrival
There have been more comfortable trips to Italy. The flight was delayed for over an hour in which repairmen fixed some problem in the toilet. They could have simply locked up the one of many facilities, but since the flight was full of young female travelers, who absolutely must hear the sound of running water at least once in every hour, they made the right decision.
Italian III.14
First, although LL only presents two tenses, there are in fact four tenses of the subjunctive, just as there were in Latin. In addition to present and Passato Rimoto, there are also:
Greek I.34 With AUDIO CONCLUDED With Answers
Conditional sentences are not restricted to clauses of the “If/…then” type. The “if clause” may be replaced by either a relative clause or a participial construction.
