Word: fired
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...relation of valets-de-chambre to the age in which they live, and whether there be not something in nearness which is fatal to the heroic. If Prometheus had a Boswell, would not the vulture have been Niebuhrized into the liver-complaint, and he himself, the thief of fire from heaven, into a palaeozoic Dr. Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal as well as a spiritual being, the element of humor evolved by the contrast puts the heroic...
Will Wordsworth survive as Lucretius survives, through the splendor of certain sunbursts of imagination refusing for a passionate moment to be subdued by the unwilling material in which it is forced to work, while that material takes fire in the working as it can and will only in the hands of genius? His teaching, whatever it was, is part of the air we breathe, and has lost that charm of exclusion and privilege that kindled and kept alive the zeal of his acolytes while it was still sectarian or even heretical. but he has that surest safeguard against oblivion, that...
...work on the new Fogg Art Museum has not progressed as rapidly as was anticipated, but, at present, the foundations of the building are practically completed and the brick work will be commenced next week. The museum, which will be as nearly fire-proof as possible, will be constructed of buff Indiana limestone and the style of architecture is an adaptation of the classic. It will be two stories in height and will have a front of 115 feet and a depth of about 114 feet. The building will be divided into two main sections; the front of the building...
LOST.- A gold link cuff button, with fire opal set. Finder please leave at CRIMSON office or address business manager...
LOST.- A gold link cuff button, with fire opal set. Finder please leave at CRIMSON office or address business manager...