Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...question for debate at the regular meeting of the Freshman Debating Club last night was "Resolved, That capital punishment should be abolished." The decision was won by the affirmative, supported by J. S. Leopold, D. W. Howes and A. H. Weed. The critic of the evening was H. B. Kirtland...
...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 willing power, but which is powerless to furnish itself with motive for the deed." In speaking of the New Testament, John Ruskin has said what may be well applied to the death of the hero of the play, that the most soul-stirring picture drawn by the Savior is the terrible...
...White, a well-known Shaksperean critic, describes "King Lear" as of all Shakspere's plays the largest in conception, the noblest in design, and the highest in art. Although almost universally associated with the three other great tragedies of Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth, it differs from all three in its essential purpose. Hamlet is a play of inaction and indecision; Othello is the story of the down fall of a great soul through jealousy, Macbeth that of a man overcome by ambition. The distinction of "King Lear" lies in the fact that it displays the tragic power of retribution over...
Under the general head, "English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: A Retrospect," Professor Lewis E. Gates is contributing a series of essays to the Critic. The first of the series entitled "The Romantic Movement" appears in the January number...