Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Primarily, the work is a satire upon Norwegian character, bringing out its lack of personality and vacillating half-heartedness, but the poet went beyond the limits of his original conception, and gave to the world the picture of a misguided human soul, in which people of every nation may see...
The United States Fish Commission has recently received a second letter from Dr. Agassiz, dated Nov. 6, 1899, which further describes his cruise in the Albatross. The work has been largely of the same character as before, but more attention has been paid to the construction and nature of the...
...visit in Rome in 1786, when the "Iphigenie" took its final shape. The play marks the consummation of Goethe's fealty to Greek ideals of art which was to last throughout his life-time. It shows him turning from the license of fancy and the affluence of sentiment that characterize his Storm and Stress Period, to a serener and truer view of life, --a view at once idealistic and realistic in that it blends a lofty faith in the moralities with psychological truth of character. "Iphigenie" is not, however, a realistic play in the sense of the extreme modern school...
Two new periodicals have lately been started by the students. One, a small weekly paper called "The Examiner", devoted to the criticism in a satirical vein of all manner of undergraduate evils, has already appeared. The other, which is still in preparation, is to be of a humorous character, like...
The great ethical truth to be found in "Hamlet" is the disaster, not of wickedness, but of virtue impotent and inactive. Hamlet, although in many ways a splendid character is possessed, in the words of a French critic of note, of "a will which is strongly deemed to have the...