Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Ionic coast, caused the literary, as well as the military, supremacy to pass from Ionia to Attica, and as a result, the authentic recitation of the Iliad was also transferred. About this time the decay of the epic and the birth of tragedy marked the beginning of a new epoch...
...Germany's representative at Harvard for the next college year, to succeed Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of Leipzig, in the second year of the international interchange, now regularly established between the University and the German Government. His courses at the University next winter will probably deal chiefly with the classic epoch of German literature, and with German literature and thought of the present day. Harvard's representative has not yet been announced...
...turning of the age toward idealistic views of life. His first book to attract general attention dealt with Schiller's Kantian studies and their influence upon the composition of "Wallenstein." Then followed his "Life of Herder," the best constructed and most illuminating biography of this forerunner of the classic epoch of German literature. This was followed by two philosophical treatises, "The Foundations of Philosophy," and "The Fundamental Conceptions of the Spinozian System"; and, finally by the "Life of Schiller," a book which may be said to belong to the highest kind of literary biography, in that it presents...
...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...