Word: brooding
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Died. Enchantress III, daughter of Collar, mother of In Memoriam, valued at $40,000 (said to be the most valuable brood mare in the country) ; in Lexington, Ky., after foaling a bay colt...
...goes about the demonstration of his theory by discovering a household full of selfish brats in incipient stages of art and matrimony. Father, who has paid the bills for 25 or 27 years, is suddenly forced out of a job and the brat brood is penniless. Immediately there is a general rallying round. The selfish brats map out lucrative business careers on the spot, matrimony is postponed and slender savings plugged into the breach in the domestic dyke...
...till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive," linked itself to natural poetic felicity and power. The rest, the process of gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that they could so brood over adopted progeny as to persuade at least a second paternity. When we consider the indelible Danish bias of the original, the success of this venture is as buoyant as it is inspiring...
...have come round to the ballad. We cannot, and do not wish to, escape. Mr. Benet may brood over the sonnet (there are 16 in the book), but it will only flicker; it will not shine. For the sonnet's Procrustean tyranny will brook no revolt: the breather of cadences is either stretched or beheaded--both equally painful...
...mission was accomplished with miraculous speed; the destruction, which was to follow a persistence in sin, was avoided and did not take place; but having fore told evil, he was disappointed that it did not come. He was angry with himself and with God, and retired to brood in solitude over the failure of his prophecy. The moral, then, is that of the man who becomes so intent upon the means of achieving his object that he mistakes the means for the end, and by his passion for it blinds himself to the good he might have accomplished or perchance...