Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...methods of teaching. He made the greatest mistake of his critical career when he lauded Shelley's letters to the skies, saying that they would long outlive his poetry. Arnold says of himself that there was in him a good, definite streak of the Philistine. Yet we should not dwell too much upon the mistakes of a man so full of generous enthusiasm for the best things. Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater and Henry James were all apostles to the Philistines...
...remark accidentally overheard on the street a few days ago seems to us so interesting in the state of feeling that it revealed that we cannot but dwell on it for a moment. Two upper classmen were talking glumly of the outlook for their class eleven. "Why doesn't Blank come out?" said one. "He would brace that team wonderfully...
...Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my breast its several torments dwell...
Last night in Harvard 1, Mr. S. J. Barrows delivered a lecture on "Dorpfeld's Contribution to Greek Archaeology." The lecture was rather archaeological than biographical; but a short account of Dorpfeld's life was given. It is not necessary to dwell long on this...
...Since Dr. Gladden's first day with us the large attendance at chapel exercises has kept up undiminished-certainly a fine tribute to his popularity. There is always danger, when a man speaks every day and where the nature of the case rather makes it necessary that he dwell on his own particular views and hobbies, that he will repeat himself and become tiresome. If Dr. Gladden had done this his audience would slowly have dwindled away. Of his lectures at the Divinity School we have heard the most complimentary remarks. We only hope that his service has been...