Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great sources of informatory literature in England. Next to these comes the long list of short books, one-volume books, epitomes and analyses of longer books. They take it for granted that everyone is in a hurry and state a mass of facts which it is almost impossible to remember. Therefore, such books are dangerous. What is easily gained is easily lost. It is the time spent over a book which gives one a lasting familiarity with its contents...
...that magazine were especially excellent in the old days. The critics probably read the books they discussed - which is saying a good deal. Coleridge was the first author to offer great attractions and he became a guide, philosopher and friend. Carlyle said he "introduces one to more literature than almost anyone else." He was an interpreter of life at every point. But there are other guides perhaps as good and although they differ among themselves, any one will serve Carlyle or Emerson, Ruskin or Browning. It is not of much importance how one arrives in the "Kingdom of Literature...
...question of the substitution of the Hudson River for the Thames as the course of the three cornered race of Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania has been almost forgotten. Though the directors of the Columbia Athletic Union have decided to put an "eight" on the water this year if favorable arrangements can be made in the case of those men in the School of Mines who are required by the college to do summer work this year, it is not probable that such arrangements can be made...
...should turn to Shakspere, the glory of English and universal literature. The facts of his life are derived from authorities of two kinds; the records left by contemporary writers and the personal elements which the author puts into his works. It is a mistaken idea that we know almost nothing of Shakspere's life; we have many interesting and important particulars. The history of his life naturally divides itself into three periods as follows: the Stratford period covering the years from 1564-1586; the London period, lasting from 1586-1604 and the later Stratford period from 1604 until his death...
...mere sketch, but carefully and consistently written. The description of the little old lady is so telling as to be worthy quoting, though it consists of only two sentences. "She must have been about sixty, but her face was one of those so thoroughly good that they almost seem pretty. Her dress was exquisitely neat, and her hair was drawn smoothly back from the forehead and partly hidden by an immaculate white...