Word: age
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Matthew Arnold right in saying that Gray's poetry was "stunted in quality by reason of the age in which he lived...
Aristotle, said Professor Goodwin, was born at Stageira, in the year 384 B. C. At the age of seventeen he inherited a fortune on the death of his father and went to Athens hoping to find Plato there. Since Plato was away, he waited for his return, and about 360 became a student at the Academy where he remained until Plato's death. He then went to Asia Minor and spent three years at Hermeas whence he was summoned to Macedon to tutor Alexander the Great...
...popular tradition that he taught while walking, which has given the name of peripatetic to his school, is probably wrong. The name probably arose from the shady walks of the grave where he taught. After the death of Alexander he went to Chalcis and there died at the age...
There will also be a series of views illustrating the physiographic features of the land, showing stages of portions of the earth's surface from topographic youth to maturity and old age...
...died in 1888 at the young age of 33, his constitution ruined by over-work and by the disease, which would have made his whole life a tragedy but for his own buoyant nature...