Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Much curiosity is felt at Yale with regard to the exercises of the coming University Commencement, which breaks for the first time with the earliest traditions of the college. The music will be more important than heretofore, since it will have a truly academic character and is not intended to...
Mr. Copeland began his varied list of subjects last evening with a brief critical sketch of Mr. Daly's revival of "Two Gentlemen of Verona." This play is one of the earliest, and not one of the best, of Shakespeare's works. The plot is so unreasonable, and one of...
Our interest in the Bible lies not in its literary qualities, but in the wonderful character that it describes. We must have obtained this conception of Christ in one of three ways. Either the evangelists were true historians, or else falsifiers, or had evolved this ideal from the stories of...
Mr. Copeland said a few words about each of the four famous novels, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's masterpiece, and is, in the lecturer's opinion, the greatest literary work of the imagination...
Above all other poetry, the Divine Comedy is the record of a lofty character and a manly earnestness of purpose. Dante did not fail in the indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them...