Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wanted to. To this man we must confess ourselves infinitely obliged; really, we had never thought of such a thing as inserting his article-in the waste-basket until we received his kind permission. But this is not the worst; while we are torn by dissensions at home, foreign enemies take arms against us. Every mail brings us some paper in which we are horrified to find some marked article about "discrepancies." Why, it has become our b&?;te noire; it follows us everywhere, sleep brings us no balm, for we dream of it; when we awake, we see from...
Signor Rossi, who has been coldly received in this country, declares that foreign critics pronounce him the best living actor...
...very great exertions. Most noticeable, too, was the almost entire lack of enthusiasm on the part of those who were not leading disputants. Occasionally there would be a good five-minute speech from the house. But such speeches were very few and far between. Now, it was entirely foreign to the original intention of the Union that the debate should be monopolized by four men; for debates depend to a large extent for their vivacity upon the number of different standpoints from which the questions are discussed. Besides, the more often a man speaks, the more interested he becomes...
CAMBRIDGE is no more than twelve miles from Concord, and yet there are students in Harvard College to whom New England thought is almost utterly foreign. The University is, of course, more or less cosmopolitan, and the Westerner tramples consecrated soil for perhaps a year and a half before he takes cognizance of the original thinkers whom it has nourished. I confess to a feeling of exasperation when one of these untutored minds propounds a view of life, or gives an estimate of character, without recognizing in any way the verdict of New England cultivation. Yet, although his lack...
...metrical recitation, outside of the choruses, the syllables marked with acute accents, with circumflex accents, and with grave accents, were distinguished from one another and from unaccented syllables by a difference of pitch, confined within the interval known as a third. This difference of pitch is not wholly foreign to our own accentuation, but it was much more marked among Greeks, and resulted in a sort of sing-song tone. In the choruses the liberty of an octave was allowed, and where there was a dialogue, both actors and chorus sang. In this last case the chorus is termed commatic...