Word: braved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sets the stars to pondering the old question which the first thinking man proposed to himself, the question which played so large a part in the schemes of the early Greek physical philosophers--"What is this world about us?" Like Odysseus, Mr. Blythe communes with his soul and dreams brave dreams. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez writes in honor of the memory of Walter Pater in words which suggest Pater's style, though the title to the verse is not quite happy. Mr. Ward Shepard writes seriously on "The Spirit of Traherne." Traherne is unknown to so many of us that...
...final cast is as follows: Pasquinot, father of Sylvette, C. B. Johnson 1G. Bergamin, father of Percinet, F. F. A. Pearson '11 Straforel, a brave, O. L. M. H. Lyding '09 Percinet, a lover, S. J. Perret '10 Blaise, a gardener, B. G. Whitmore '11 Sylvette, Miss Charlotte Adams...
...sensuous description; but it has not simplicity. Simplicity involves clearness, without which a poem fails to produce its intended effect. Here I am not sure that I understand the emotional situation: what is the "pain" for which God is to be thanked, and why must the lovers be "brave" in their love? One may surmise the explanation, but it does not seem to me that the poem makes it clear. The piece has emotional and descriptive power. The verse is weakened in places by unnecessary repetition of words and phrases: "that drift--that drift," "wild, wild symphony," and several other...
...that made "Joan of Are" successful on the stage. Indeed, what was not enough to draw the public in the very competent hands of Miss Kalisch would have been ludicrous if Miss Marlowe had acted it-and would probably have drawn a little better. But if we are brave enough and perhaps optimistic enough to admit that an American can write good verse, "Sappho and Phaon" will stand on many a book shelf and will be read as one reads Stephen Phillips. Indeed, there is more reason why it should be read. The verse has often more strength...
...Senior, who enlisted as a private in the very beginning, was given a commission before there had been any fighting, and when the fighting began he was promoted. By a brave regiment he was called a brave...