Word: fines
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of our College Overseers on Wednesday last, Messrs. John Gray, Henry J. Bigelow, and Thomas G. Appleton were elected Masters of the Museum of Fine Arts...
...horror of the world, or more especially of human kind, which masters him, and the unholy, but constant love for Astarte; finally, after several unsuccessful efforts to end his life, he dies, while the angels contend with him for his soul. It is true "Manfred" abounds in many fine parts, and is justly ranked among his best productions. Yet imitation is not Byron's specialty; his mind was so constituted that when he set himself to dramatize the ideas of others he did not excel. The "Deformed Transformed" and "Werner" seem to me to exemplify this. The plot is, that...
...Heaven and Earth" and "Cain," again, seem to me truer expressions of Byron's ideas than Manfred. There is that peculiar irreverence in both, especially in "Cain," with which he was so often stigmatized. They both abound in fine verses, both show deep thought. "Cain," I believe, develops some peculiar ideas on religion, some very fair reasoning, and curious statements, which, amongst all the grand imagery and marked characters, are apt to somewhat disturb the mind of a cursory reader. The object of these remarks is to suggest that Mr. Taine, in doing Byron's "Manfred" full justice, might have...
CERTAIN we are, that in the person of Dr. Eliot, its President, Harvard has a living illustration of the beauty and power of a fine, neat, simple eloquence, which only need be adapted to each scholar's and each gentleman's native turn of feeling and thought, or his acquisitions, to realize our view of what is to be desired. - College Herald...
...stomach; genius becomes more active and more ethereal at the absence of bodily nutriment. In after ages men will point to the THAYER CLUB as the birthplace of scores of famous bards. There dwell our Cambridge Muses; and the idea of many a masterpiece has been evolved during the "fine frenzy" following the weekly dinner on turkey and cranberry-sauce...