Which preposition to use with classical
What but parental love, deathless and irresistible, could tempt you thus, in drapery more classical than comfortable, to brave all dangers, to aggravate your rheumatism, to defy that celebrated god, Tirednature'ssweetrestorer, and to take your snatches of sleep à pied, a kind of fatherly walking Stewart, as if you were doing your thousand miles in a thousand hours for a thousand dollars, and were sure of winning the money?
It is elevated in sentiment, classical in form,in substance, biographical in relation to Keats, and in some minor degree autobiographical for Shelley himself.
This last solution supposes the phrase, "waiting a long time," or at least the participle waiting, to be a noun; for, upon the author's principle of equivalence, "they had waited," will otherwise be a "sentential" participlea thing however as good and as classical as the other! OBS.
The purest, the loftiest, and, we do not fear to say it, the most classical of living English poets, joined together in the same compliment with the meanest, the filthiest, and the most vulgar of Cockney poetasters.
The two amateurs connoisseurs would not be misapplied, eitherhad seated themselves at the brink of a spring of delicious water, and removing the corn-cob that Pliny the younger had felt it to be classical to affix to the nozzle of a quart jug, had, some time before, commenced the delightful recreation of sounding the depth, not of the spring, but of the vessel.
It cannot, even if it would, become merely aesthetic or merely classical like literature.
B. used to say of it, in a way of half-compliment, half-irony, that it was too classical for representation.
There is an artistic rhythm in the writings of the classical authorslike those of Cicero, Herodotus, and Thucydidesas marked as in the beautiful measure of Homer and Virgil.
Goethe and Schiller, who were seeking to blend the classical with the German spirit, demurred to the vagaries of Jean Paul's unquestioned genius.