Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are many reasons which make Hayward easier to begin with than the other Elizabethan dramatists. He is strangely modern, and takes almost after the realist of today, telling tales of home life in a homespun way. There is no poetry in his plays, and in this respect he is...
C. M. Flandrau has given in the "College Belle" a capital piece of work. It is excellent in its appreciative analysis of character, its firmness in delineation and an apt originality in the choice of words and phrases.
Among the "Kodaks" there are several choice bits of description, but the last one deserves a far better position. It shows just that rapid character painting which is best suited to this style of work.
Col. Higginson was warmly welcomed. He said that in contradiction to the popular theory in regard to athletics, it seemed as if they had tended rather to produce than to banish competitions of other kinds. Competition, he thought, was always the method in which the activities of man were accustomed...
It is beyond question that men of little intelligence and no conscientiousness drift into parties, and that many men of high character are known as indepenpents, but the question to be discussed is not whether partisans or independents are as a rule better men, but whether, given the man, he...