Word: finer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poetry it is the fault of the poets, since the material always abundantly exists in human nature. Undoubtedly it does,- the passions and desires, the loves, hopes and despairs of men are the raw material,- but there are periods in which that material is more abundant or of finer staple, when the passions have freer play and on a more heroic stage, when human nature, as it were, puts on the Cothurnus and assumes a loftier port...
...first formal presentation of the Latin play, given last evening, covered all expectations, high as these had been. The applause which the play received, considering how far a great part of the audience necessarily was a from full appreciation of the finer points, was astonishing. The great hazard of time, work, and care has, if complete success is compensation, been repaid...
...this time is Michael Angelo. He stands alone entirely distinct from all his contemporaries. His individuality was very strong and impresses itself into all his works. All his figures are of a somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers but none of them could give...
...wool growers will not be injured: (1). The bulk of foreign wool comes from Australia and being of finer grade does not compete. (2) Wool of American grade is produced as cheaply here as elsewhere. (b) He will be benefited by greater demand for his wool caused by cheaper woolens, due to free wool of the necessary finer grade. Mr. Bell, Tex. Mr. Springer...
...Where the painting is first put on canvas, these difficulties are in great part removed. This has caused one of the great differences in the nature of mural painting on canvas and of that in situ. In the former the character of the ceiling paintings is the finer, in the latter that of the panel paintings...