Word: characterized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mr. Joseph Jefferson, the well-known actor, gave a talk on "Dramatic Discourse," Monday afternoon, under the auspices of the Cliosophic Society. The lecture was intensely interesting and very entertaining with his humor. This lecture was the last of a series of special lectures during the past two weeks which...
A very large audience listened to Mr. Copeland's lecture last evening on Mr. Hardy, Mr. Kipling, Miss Jewett, Miss Wilkins and other writers of the Short Story. The lecturer began with a few words upon the theory of this form of literary art. The conte, as the French call...
Professor Moore gave the sixth and last lecture on the Fine Arts of the Middle Ages in the Fogg Museum last evening, showing views illustrating Decadent Gothic Art in Germany in the Rhenish cathedrals at Cologne and Strasburg; and Gothic influences in Italy evident in Cistertian churches at Florence and...
III. Senators should be elected by the state legislatures.- (A) Indirect election of Senators secures much better men.- (1) Mere popular demagogues cannot secure election by state legislatures.- cf. character of senators and governors.- (B) Corruption, urged as an objction to the present system, would be merely increased by popular...
The story which revolves around Phedre is an ancient one. Like many of the greatest masterpieces of the dramatic art, Racine's tragedy is founded upon the heroic fable. Racine had for prototypes the plays of Euripides, in Greek, and of Seneca, in Latin. He differs widely from Euripides, who...