Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...supposed that all tastes will prefer a prose Dante to the Dantes of Longfellow or even Cary, but to the reader who is at all familiar with the music of the Italian Dante it is hardly to be doubted but that Professor Norton's will be the most generally satisfactory English rendering. Such a reader in the vividly reproduced sentences of the great poem will have suggested in his own mind the melody of the Italian...
...professor, was lodging in the Craigie House, which became his home afterwards. He pays a glowing tribute to Lowell's wife, and dilates at some length upon her influence on her husband. Harvard men will feel themselves thoroughly at home in reading the article for it is full of familiar pictures and drawings of the different places and people spoken of and the pen and ink and pencil drawings by William Goodrich Beal and Sears Gallagher do much to strengthen the warm sympathy created by the text...
AMERICAN FOOTBALL BY WALTER CAMP. - The name of Walter Camp, as the rather of foot-ball in this country, is so familiar to all followers of the game and so dear to every player from Maine to California, that the announcement from Messrs. Harper & Brothers, Frank in Square, New York, of the publication of his book has created a lively demand for it in all directions. Not only is the book a cleverly-written and interesting history of the game, but it is filled with instructions for both captains and players. To spectators that would understand and enjoy the game...
There are probably very few college men who have not read more or less of Alexandre Dumas fils. All those who know his work and the few who from lack of opportunity or from hyper-prudishness are not familiar with it will find Mr. Jefferson B. Fletcher's critical article on this great French writer (which, by the way, occupies the place of honor) an interesting and just piece of work. He gives a short sketch of Dumas's early life and of the conditions which were largely instrumental in shaping his character, and then he goes on to discuss...
...poetry of the number is of a high order. Mr. McCulloch's contribution, "Phaeton," is a rhymed tale of the familiar myth. The metre of the poem is admirably adapted to the treatment of this well known story, and, barring a few errors of accentuation, the whole shows poetical strength...