Word: delights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Darkies Delight...
Human character can be radically changed. Under good influences, the worst of men can learn to loathe the things which were formerly his delight...
...Darkeis'Delight...
...dependency on the doctors, Toinette appears disguised as a foreign physician, and in this scene the quacks are effectually ridiculed. The attempt is defeated by the efforts of Celine, but the stepmother is at length shown in her true colors, when her husband feign death, and she shows her delight...
Elinor was herself a patron of poetry. There is every reason to believe that her court was the resort of all the brilliant men and the poets of the north of France. Fortunately for us it was their delight to take for their theme the novel moral ideals and virtues of the time. The troubadours loved to tell first of all of courtesy as high in the rank of virtues; then of valor, of generosity, of perfect refinement and gentleness. There were other virtues which do not now pass as such. Youth was lauded, age condemned. Without joy, whether active...