Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play is certainly worth seeing, however. It is a serious attempt to advance the knowledge of French language and literature and as such is thoroughly commendable...
...attempt has been made to make of the December Atlantic a holiday number. It is in no wise extraordinary, but ordinary means a great deal when Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s name is signed...
...Cornell's acquisition of the "law library of the late Nathaniel Moak." With reference to this notice one or two corrections should be made. The statement that both Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it as it is, is inaccurate. Harvard University has made no attempt to buy the collection, as is stated, although there has been some correspondence concerning certain American reports that might perhaps have been bought as duplicates. There was no occasion to buy English, Irish, Scotch, or colonial reports, with all of which the library is amply supplied...
...college, he never made any attempt for honors. He entered into a brilliant circle of friends, chief among them Arthur Hallam, and passed four glorious years. While there, he published his first book of poems, and though these were immature, yet they bespoke the coming poet. In 1833 and again in 1842 further poems were published. A new poet was recognized. The wealth, variety, sentiment, and music in his talent charmed the nation. Some of his poems were graceful, with dainty turns and quaint conceits; some shook off all elaborations, and sprang from the very soul of the poet...
...made Poet Laureate, and in the same year he published his "In Memoriam." and this poem has now come to mourners. We make no attempt to judge Tennyson, nor to give him his proper rank. We are, in the most serious sense, hero-worshippers before him. The more we read, the more must we admire at once his gentle loveliness, his subtle charm, his manly greatness, and above all, his pure and lofty tone of mind...