Word: deceits
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...finally, entertaining "specimens" of the "younger set" of society in Boston and of the University in Cambridge. The comedy is brightest, most observant, and most entertaining in the act that assembles playfully and good-naturedly what may be called its Boston collection. A thread or two of intrigue and deceit holds together its picturing of character and manners; the stages of Mrs. Smith's progress give it its movement; and seldom does Miss Stanwood lose her light hand. Such a satirical comedy of social "actualities," it is safe to say, no dramatic club in an American college has dared...
...heritage of Iphigenis, daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytaemnestra, was a calamity provoked by successive violations of the law of God. Deceit, treachery, fatal ambition, adultery, the atrocities, of revenge that studied the refinements of retaliation, the murder of a husband, of a daughter, of a father--these form the tale of the house of Agamemnon. Of this line the most tragic figure is Agamemnon, who slew his daughter as a sacrifice, and, upon his triumphal return from the Trojan war, was ignominiously butchered by his faithless queen. Such, in short, is the plot...
Chartley soon became infatuated with Gratiana, Sir Harry's daughter, sought in marriage by a certain gentleman named Sencer. By clever deceit he won Sir Harry's consent to a union. The Wise-Woman was now sought by Sencer, Luce and Boyster. She promised that Sencer should forestall Gratiana's wedding and that Boyster should marry Luce. The last scene finds everyone at Hogsdon. Chartley, jovial and full of lies, was caught in his own net, and through his discomfiture everyone was made happy, including the inconstant hero, who returned to his first love...
...very shrewish and strongly opposed to the stage; hence the professor writes her a note, urging her to prolong her visit, as the maid, Rosa, has left to attend a funeral. But Mrs. Gollwitz arrives just in time to find Rosa reading the note, and detects the professor's deceit...
...word "truth" has a meaning in every day use among men of all sorts, sincerity, frank speech, straightforward conduct, the absence of deceit. Truth is the motto of him "whose armor is his honest thought, and simple truth his highest skill." This kind of truth, however, is not the special virtue of the student or of the scholar, and has no more connection with the University than with life elsewhere. Yet thought rather than action is our object here, and so "truth" may be our peculiar motto. The man in public life, for instance, is obliged to overlook minor agreements...