Word: equal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...show great ability with little material. There are heads without number, ideal, real, wise and otherwise. "A Saucy School Girl," by S. R. Burleigh; an "Ideal Head," by Fowler, and a weird, strangely effective, but well executed study called "Astarte," by F. W. Freer, and many others of equal merit. Passing across the common, one comes to Doll & Richards'. Here, on entering, one sees a beautiful exhibition of Chelsea faience. Going up stairs one finds a fair collection of paintings, a pleasant relief from the black and white exhibit just left. Among the most noticeable, are a saloon picture...
...kept pace with equal feet...
...last chorus is generally acknowledged to be one of the best, if not the very best. It reminds one of a certain Song without Words of Mendelssohn, the fifth in the third book, but it does not suggest plagiarism, rather an equal and similar inspiration. The dramatic effect renders it a "worthy culmination to all that has gone before...
...music was remarkably well rendered. Mr. Osgood sang his solo with great spirit, but his voice was scarcely equal to the part. We cannot venture on a criticism of the composition, but we must mention the exquisite theme which appears at the end of the second chorus and elsewhere, and is indeed the gem of the opera. It shows the same sympathetic spirit which animates the slow movement of Mr. Paine's First Symphony, though the latter has more of voluptuous tranquillity and less of tear-starting pain. Let those who did not appreciate the passage pronounce this expression fantastic...
...insight into human nature. To be a good judge of men is to be a great man, and this is a species of greatness which inspires awe. Now we do not believe in the propriety of the existence of great men. We think that all men should be equal. We do not care how the equality is brought about, whether by lowering the few or raising the many. In the problem we have to deal with, however, we believe that raising the many is the more practicable of the two alternatives. So we propose to raise; and if you wish...