Word: breast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scene is laid. The general conditions under which the English settlers lived during the French and Indian Wars are interestingly sketched, and the account of a sudden attack upon the colonists fort has real dramatic force, skillfully manipulated so as to lead to a conflict of motives in the breast of one of the defenders. One or two of the characterizations are somewhat perfunctory, and the language is here and there a little too consciously archaic: but Mr. Grandgent's persons, no less than Mr. Townsend's, live and act like human beings
...make phrases out of the well-worn vocabulary of current criticism, and a need to consider more curiously what, if anything, his words mean. Take these sentences: "An auster jealousy best defines the attitude towards his nurse. In proportion as this revelation grows upon him, Mr. Noyes will triumphantly breast the temptations of 'recherche' work and the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding poets." Ten minutes of hard meditation on these words will help their writer to avoid "the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding" critics, if one may adapt some of his superabundant...