They read the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, and many others, they examined articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and The Edinburgh Review and read history, geography and biographies.

In its earliest form, " grammar school " referred to a school that taught students to read, scan, interpret, and declaim Greek and Latin poets ( including Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Ennius, and others ).

He was removed to his seat at Hayes, where his son William read Homer to him: the passage about the death of Hector.

Ingres's choice of subjects reflected his literary tastes, which were severely limited: he read and reread Homer, Virgil, Plutarch, Dante, histories, and the lives of the artists.

The ode plays upon the fact that those who are listening to Bacchylides have also read the epics of Homer, and understand the whole story behind this scene that would speak poorly of Achilles if people did not know the role he played in the Trojan war.

" Patchen kept a diary from the age of twelve and read Dante, Homer, Burns, Shakespeare and Melville.

Students learning Ancient Greek today usually start with the Attic dialect, proceeding, depending on their interest, to the koine of the New Testament and other early Christian writings, or Homeric Greek to read the works of Homer and Hesiod, or Ionic Greek to read the histories of Herodotus and the medical texts of Hippocrates.

In John Irving's 1985 novel The Cider House Rules, Dr. Larch orders his apprentice gynecologist Homer Welles to read Gray's Anatomy.

Winckelmann had read Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Xenophon, and Plato, but he found at Nöthnitz the works of such famous Enlightenment writers as Voltaire and Montesquieu.

Among the Greeks, Aristotle, Homer, and Plato were now being read in the original for the first time since the 4th century, though Greek compositions were few.

He says he will obtain a picture of him for his study and that " I'll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare and to honour him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow, as we read of one-I do not well remember his name, but I'm sure he was a king-slept with Homer under his bed's head ".

Although first reads on previous seasons had not been well received by the production team, " Homer the Heretic " read very well, particularly some of the visuals in the third act such as the house on fire and Homer being rescued by Flanders.

When Homer sees what a good job he did in the commercial, even though no one read the script, he plans on becoming an actor.

The IRS examines soon after and takes away their house ( called " Homertime ", since it belonged to rapper MC Hammer before he went bankrupt and was called " Hammertime ", which Homer pounded the first m off of and the " A " into an " O " so that it read " HO MERTIME ").

A poetry-loving character says he will obtain a picture of Shakespeare for his study and that " I'll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare and to honour him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow, as we read of one – I do not well remember his name, but I'm sure he was a king – slept with Homer under his bed's head ".

While there, Groundskeeper Willie discovers that Bart has the power to read his thoughts and that if Homer goes insane, he should use this to call him.

" As Homer awaits his death, he listens to Larry King read the Bible on tape.

The idea behind the episode plot came from Jace Richdale, who came up with the idea of Homer stealing grease and the grease business, having read about in a magazine.

When the collection plate is passed round, Homer puts in a chocolate Easter bunny that he found in the dumpster, enraging Reverend Lovejoy, calling it a wicked idol, and provoking him to read the Bible from the beginning.

Homer begins to enjoy smoking marijuana, even asking Flanders to read him the whole Holy Bible, much to Flanders ' excitement.

At Lisa's advice ( who has noticed the similarities between fiction and real life ), Marge asks Homer to read her book, but he falls asleep before getting anything done, later deciding to lie to her that he read the whole book and loved it.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.

Wilfrid did not respond to the accusation, but a monk present relayed the episode to Bede, who replied within a few days to the monk, writing a letter setting forth his defence and asking that the letter be read to Wilfrid also.

The horrified king eventually summons Daniel who is able to read the writing and offer the following interpretation: Mene, Mene-God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

The verses therefore read: " And the lord provided a great fish ( dag gadol, masculine ) for Jonah, and it swallowed him, and Jonah sat in the belly of the fish ( still male ) for three days and nights ; then, from the belly of the ( daga, female ) fish, Jonah began to pray.

In the early days of Christian worship the Bible furnished all that was thought necessary, containing as it did the books from which the lessons were read and the psalms that were recited.

" Wang reports that Gödel's wife, Adele, two days after Gödel's death, told Wang that " Gödel, although he did not go to church, was religious and read the Bible in bed every Sunday morning.

After his school days in 1962 he went on to read modern history at Brasenose College, Oxford.

The vitae et miracula, for impressive miracles were an essential element of Merovingian hagiography, were read aloud on saints ’ feast days.

These readings are most often part of an established lectionary ( i. e., selected texts to be read at church services on specific days ), and ( together with an Old Testament reading and a Psalm ) include a non-gospel reading from the New Testament and culminate with a Gospel reading.

Macdonald had sent the telegram to Allan six days before the 1872 election which read: " I must have another $ 10, 000.

According to Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, it is read in its entirety on Shabbat that falls during the intermediate days of Passover ( or on the seventh or eighth day if it happens to be Shabbat ).

In the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, all Jewish men, women, and children on pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the festival would gather in the Temple courtyard on the first day of Chol HaMoed Sukkot to hear the Jewish king read selections from the Torah.

On days that the Torah is read in a synagogue, it is likewise read at the shiva home.

A Torah portion must be read publicly at least once every three days, in the halachically prescribed tune, in the presence of a congregation, which is the basis for Jewish communal life.

As a part of the morning or afternoon prayer services on certain days of the week or holidays, a section of the Pentateuch is read from a Torah scroll.

On Jewish holidays, the beginnings of each month, and fast days, special sections connected to the day are read.

" Five days after this speech, in an interview for The Daily Telegraph, Thatcher praised Powell: " I have always read Enoch Powell's speeches and articles very carefully ....

Lord read for the part on a Wednesday and was cast and flew to Hawaii two days later.

Clive Bell polemicized post-impressionism in his widely read book Art ( 1914 ), basing his aesthetics partly on Roger Fry ’ s art criticism and G. E. Moore ’ s moral philosophy ; and as the war came he argued provocatively that " in these days of storm and darkness, it seemed right that at the shrine of civilization-in Bloomsbury, I mean-the lamp should be tended assiduously ".

Jung had no plans to study psychiatry, because it was held in contempt in those days, but as he started studying his psychiatric textbook, he became very excited when he read that psychoses are personality diseases.

Usually a bill cannot become enacted until it has been read on a certain number of days in each house.

For example, to improve your memory through passive review, you learn in this way: you read a text today ; to not forget it, you repeat it tomorrow and then you repeat 4 days later and then 8, 16, 32, 64, etc., days later.