Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The fifth number of the Monthly, which will probably be out this afternoon, will be a Memorial number to the late Phillips Brooks. The editors may well feel proud of the work which they have done, for certainly the pleasant reminders which the various articles will make cannot fail to...
At this period of Queen Anne's time the four leading literary men were Pope, Swift, Defoe and Addison. The last three represented the prose while Pope was the poet. Pope's life and works were closely intertwined and much influenced by his circumstances. He was born in London, the...
The close of his life was full of misfortunes to which the course of political events added many. He died a worn out man at fifty-six. In considering him as a man, full of craftiness and intrigue, with the love of fame as his superior passion, we must keep...
"The Melons," by C. M. Flandrau, is a clever character-sketch, full of local color, but with a deceptive title, for not fruit but the family and house of a western politician are the subject of the story.
Dryden's lack of principle, or possibly his indolent disposition led him always to submit to the ruling powers. He was Puritan in his youth, royalist in his manhood, papist in his old age. Yet after all the man was so easily influenced that it was almost impossible for him...