Word: ben
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...singing of the Glee Club, especially in the softer songs, "Ben Bolt" and "In Picardie," was marked by an unusually careful attention to expression. The latter song was, from a musical point of view, the best on the programme. The only serious defect was in the vocal waltz "Invitation," in which the piano accompaniment was too light to keep the voices in tune. The new march, "Onward," was sung with excellent spirit, but old "Schneider's," which was sung as an encore after the first number, was better rendered than it has ever been before. The solos were all good...
...Ben Bolt, Arranged by A. Geibel...
order and proportion. Ben Jonson, who if not in all respects a great poet, was certainly a very good critic, said of Donne that he was the most truly a poet of any man in that time (a time that included Shakespeare), but that he would perish for want of being understood,- a remark which time has fully justified, and which I never could help sorrowfully applying to a writer of our own day, Mr. Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate...
...poetry our language has gained by the infusion of Latin. It has become a kind of Corinthian metal richer than any one of its compounds taken by itself or all of them together before they have been fused into the glowing amalgam. In the experiments made for casting Big Ben, the great bell for the Westminster tower, it has been found that the superstition that it was the presence of silver in larger proportion which gave the remarkable sweetness of tone to certain of the old bells had no foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with which...
...young folks. This compilation is now ready, and is soon to be published by D. C. Heath and Co., Boston, under the title of "The Heart of Oak Books." These books are five in number, and are carefully graded. The first contains childish rhymes and melodies old as Ben Jonson and Shakspeare and Goldsmith, and some of the best-known fables and stories in our tongue. The second includes children's poems and nursery tales, "old as Hengist and Horsa." In the the three remaining volumes are shorter poems universally accepted as treasures of the language-many from the Elizabethan...