Word: charming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rule translations from a foreign language lose much of the charm and subtlety of the originals. No truer example of this has come to our notice than the Letters of Victor Hugo, done into English by Paul Meurice (Houghton Mifflin and Co.) It is a work of remarkable interest, including as it does Hugo's unpublished letters to his father, wife, children, and to many famous persons. But much of the refinement and delicacy of phrase is lost in the translating; and the reader feels that he is hearing Hugo's words from the lips of some one else...
...Fire-Charm from "Valkyrie," Wagner...
LOST.- In the yard or thereabouts, Monday, April 13, a triangular gold watch charm, or society badge. Will the finder please return to Charles L Safford, 12 Oxford street? The owner's name is on the back of the badge...
...speaker, was the poet in picturing human sorrow or human joy. One never goes without the other, and, to express the poet's complexity, the lecturer characterizes it as "pouring rain with brilliant sunshine." He endeavored to give his hearers an impression of Poushkin's language and its charm. The whole was frequently illustrated by translations in verse...
General Walker is widely recognized as an authority on political economy, and he combines with a masterful knowledge of his subject, great personal charm and rare eloquence...