Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last named period belonged Sheridan Knowles, who wrote only three novels which have been permanently successful: "The Hunchback," "The Love Chase," and "Virginius." These plays belong neither to the old comedy nor to the romantic drama, but have some of the characteristics of each. In "Hunchback," there is much blank verse that is florid and uninspired and there is a poverty of romance. The people have the artificial emblems of character rather than character itself. In the character of Julia, Julia Myrlowe is charming, but one must see that it is she that is charming, not the part, to which...
...times like these that the independent idea arises, and men not knowing clearly where they belong, stay out and try to hold the balance between parties; but such men ignore the fact that achievement is possible only by compromise and union. What parties need now is not principles, but men, the best, the wisest men of the country. In the face of this need the answer of the independent comes like hollow mockery. Well might parties say to such men: "We asked for bread and ye gave us a stone...
...Hayes. He agreed with Yale that the whole question was one of motive, but maintained that while it is not right to follow a party blindly, it is equally wrong to follow the dictates of conscience outside of party. The proper course for a man is to belong to a party, and to make the party to which he belongs conform to his principles...
...Vols. II and III of Bergk's Lyric Poets, Ramsay's Mostellaria and Linwood's Lexicon to Aeschylus have been found, will the finder return to the Library, where they belong, or to Robt. R. Truitt, 852 Main...
...physical dificulties of mural decorative painting, he said, make it belong to a wholly separate style of art. Where the painting is first put on canvas, these difficulties are in great part removed. This has caused one of the great differences in the nature of mural painting on canvas and of that in situ. In the former the character of the ceiling paintings is the finer, in the latter that of the panel paintings...