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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355224" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Brother's Reply</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sister, fie, for shame, no more,<br>Give this ignorant babble o'er,<br>Nor with little female pride<br>Things above your sense deride.<br>Why this foolish under-rating<br>Of my first attempts at Latin?<br>Know you not each thing we prize<br>Does from small beginnings rise?<br>'Twas the same thing with your writing,<br>Which you now take such delight in.<br>First you learnt the down-stroke line,<br>Then the hair-stroke thin and fine,<br>Then a curve, and then a better,<br>Till you came to form a letter;<br>Then a new task was begun,<br>How to join them two in one;<br>Till you got (these first steps past)<br>To your fine text-hand at last.<br>So though I at first commence<br>With the humble accidence,<br>And my study's course affords<br>Little else as yet but words,<br>I shall venture in a while<br>At construction, grammar, style,<br>Learn my syntax, and proceed<br>Classic authors next to read,<br>Such as wiser, better, make us,<br>Sallust, Phædrus, Ovid, Flaccus:<br>All the poets (with their wit),<br>All the grave historians writ,<br>Who the lives and actions show<br>Of men famous long ago;<br>Even their very sayings giving<br>In the tongue they used when living.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Think not I shall do that wrong<br>Either to my native tongue,<br>English authors to despise,<br>Or those books which you so prize;<br>Though from them awhile I stray,<br>By new studies called away,<br>Them when next I take in hand,<br>I shall better understand.<br>For I've heard wise men declare<br>Many words in English are<br>From the Latin tongue derived,<br>Of whose sense girls are deprived<br>'Cause they do not Latin know.-<br>But if all this anger grow<br>From this cause, that you suspect<br>By proceedings indirect,<br>I would keep (as misers pelf)<br>All this learning to myself;<br>Sister, to remove this doubt,<br>Rather than we will fall out,<br>(If our parents will agree)<br>You shall Latin learn with me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q>
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Give this ignorant babble o'er,
Nor with little female pride
Things above your sense deride.
Why this foolish under-rating
Of my first attempts at Latin?
Know you not each thing we prize
Does from small beginnings ..."></div>
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