Word: designer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...renaissance, Mr. Perry mentioned some of the questions that agitated the creeds of the day and led up to the state of mind in which Pope composed his "Essay on Man." It was "an attempt to vindicate the ways of God to man," and with such a necessarily large design the work was often rambling and incoherent. But though the thought is heterogeneous, it is warm, brilliant and clear, with all the charm of Pope's wonderful gift of expression...
...upper-class men will remember the notable success of a series of piano recitals from the great masters, given several winters ago by Professor Paine. These recitals not only consisted of selections of classical music judiciously chosen and artistically rendered, but were accompanied by remarks explaining the nature and design of the different forms of musical composition. Amid the numerous and valuable readings and entertaining lectures afforded by the professors in the various departments of the college, it is to be hoped that the author of the "Spring Symphony" may be induced to favor us again with occasional recitals...
...conclusion he said: "You have all heard of those two flowers dear to the aesthete's heart, the rose and the lily. But we do not love them for the reason given by Mr. Gilbert, nor for any vegetable preference, but because they are the most perfect specimens of design - the rose with its leonine beauty, and the lily, the emblem of chastity and purity. Then, why look further for the secret of life, when the secret of life...
Lord Vernon will soon publish the hitherto inedited "Comment on the Divine Comedy" by Benvenuto da Imola. It was the intention of the Dante Society of Cambridge to do this, but it was thought better to allow Lord Vernon to carry out the design of his father who had prepared the manuscript before his death...
...writer concerned himself with facts, so that he might make out a cause for complaint. The Gymnasium is now open on Saturday afternoons as on other days. It is only in the spring, during April, May, and June, that the opposite is the case; and then only with the design of inducing men to take long walks, and be in the open air as much as possible...