Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...quite as entertaining. It follows very closely the track of its predecessor in the general plan, and even in such a small matter as the name of the hero. He is described as a "fresh, frank, noble-looking young fellow, full six feet tall, with an honest face, bright eyes, and thick, curling, chestnut hair," and is introduced talking with a "fine-looking young man, with dark side-whiskers," and "a smile which was strangely winning." They are sub-Freshmen who enter, agree to chum without having seen each other before, and whose adventures, together with those of about...
...able to tell half so much about his own furniture as you can. My old Smith's room was magnificently "gotten up" by a millionnaire upholsterer from New York, but as household art had not been invented at that time, it was full of gilding and bright color. And when I tell you that it contained no less than seven distinct and antagonistic shades of red, you will understand why I used to call it the battle-field...
Williams.- The Williams LL. D. conferred on John Bright last June has been accepted...
...shadows are bright and still softly they fall...
...Kourroglou," the bandit minstrel of North Persia, whose heroes remind one of those of "Cervantes and Ariosto"? Kourroglou's lament at the death of his steed Ayrat is one of the most beautiful and pathetic elegies in Oriental literature. Why did not Mr. Emerson expatiate on those three bright stars of the literary firmament, and why did he pass over with so little notice Omar Khayyam? Simply because, instead of dwelling on the lesser luminaries, he chose the sun, the brightest of them all, Hafiz. It was not his purpose in this simple essay to give us a complete compendium...