Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Answer" is the only excellent bit of verse in the number. Though it is a translation, it is charmingly, simple and graceful. It would be just as well if the author of "Sonnet" had a more appropriate title for his verse. Most men who are at all familiar with poetry are not unaware that fourteen lines of a certain metre and rhymed in a certain way constitute a sonnet. This particular "Sonnet" has several lines badly accencentuted and some expressions hardly poetical. The "Triolets" are neither delicate nor dainty although they are as good as many of the triplets...
...olden times to talk or to speak. Parable afterwards came to mean condensed speech, and in this way the smiles of Homer and others and the fables of Aesop are kindred to the parables of Jesus. Two fables occur in the Old Testament. Jesus must have been familiar with the use of fables, but he never used them, because they were inadequate for his purpose. Fables make our thoughts entertaining, but unlike parables they are very often untrue and thus could not be used by the Lord in his teachings...
...most lively expectation. Of remarkable ability, of singular courage and determination, he held a very high place in the respect and esteem of both his instructors and his contemporaries in college. His presence on the football field last year and in the boat this spring made his figure familiar to all of us, and there is no one in college who will not be conscious for a long time to come, of the heavy loss we have sustained in his untimely death...
...American comedy, well known and accepted by the people, will be the attraction at the Hollis Street Theatre for the next fortnight. Mr. Crane is familiar to all college men, and his play, "The Senator," has been presented to them before; it needs no longer comment...
Last evening Professor Cooke took his audience on a delightful trip through the old University city of Oxford. Professor Cooke had a charming selection of views, and by the end of the evening the audience had become quite familiar with the old walls and towers of the university. The lecturer began with Magdalen College with its well-known tower and old stone pulpit out of doors. He then took his audience to the northern part of the city, passing through that part of the city containing University, Brazenose, St. Mary's, Queen's and New College. Some charming views were...