Word: epochal
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...lecturer concluded, the political entanglement caused by Pope Clement VII culminated in that appalling event, the sack of Rome by the Spanish and German troops of Charles V.--an event which in Italy at least marked the end of that great epoch known as the Revival of Learning...
Atlantic Monthly--"The close of the Victorian Epoch," by T. W. Higginson '41, "Journal," by H. D. Thoreau...
...there seemed to be an overplus of writers so brilliant that editors in chief could hardly set their standards too high. Between these periods the spirit of literature has sometimes seemed to nap, and the offerings to the editors have not seemed bursting with the promise of a new epoch of letters in America...
...Congress when in session at New York had representatives of twenty nationalities sent by various governments and archaeological institutions. The object of the delegates is the study of the American ethnological conditions of the fifteenth century and also of the pre-Columbian epoch...
...Murray of London, and a drawing after Michael Angelo by Brenourry has been received from Professor C. E. Norton. The Department of Fine Arts has acquired and deposited in the Museum a lead pencil and wash drawing of Chamouni by John Ruskin--a work of the "Modern Painters" epoch, which was Ruskin's strongest time as a draughtsman. Eight hundred and fifty-eight photographs have been purchased during the year, comprising representations of Indian, Greek, and Egyptian sculpture, French and Flemish painting, architecture of France, Spain, the Netherlands and modern England and other subjects. Several additions have also been made...