Word: forth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Abbot's way is not careful, is not novel, and, when thus set forth to the people as new and bold and American, it is likely to do precisely as much harm to careful inquiry as it gets influence over immature or imperfectly trained minds. I venture, therefore, to speak plainly, by way of a professional warning to the liberal-minded public concerning Dr. Abbot's philosophical pretensions. And my warning takes the form of saying that if people are to think in this confused way. unconsciously borrowing from a great speculator like Hegel, and then depriving the borrowed conception...
...martyrs, and by its scriptural poems, it had a most powerful influence in the growth of culture. This growth extended through all the centuries from the 6th or 7th, when the new language of France was born, up to the 13th, when a new world had manifestly sprung forth. Arts of all sorts began to assert themselves. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and England all formed a new world in poetic life. And finally in Dante we see the magnitude of the growth in civilization and the overwhelming power of the revolution which had been going on through these many...
...preface of the first volume Professor Norton sets forth briefly his reasons for choosing prose. The impossibility of adopting the "terza rima" which Dante used because of the paucity of rhyme words in English as compared with Italian throws out all chances of producing an English version of the Divine Comedy, which, even approximately, shall produce the effect of the original. Since the form of the translation must differ in the effect it produces from the original, is it better to use an English metre or English prose? Professor Norton has judged that the literal prose version which the clear...
...Come Forth, My Love!" is perhaps the better of the two poems, and evidences some love of nature on the part of its author. There is a Swinburnian luxuriousness and verboseness about the whole poem, and in the first five lines especially we are impressed by the manifest prevalence of Nature-osculation. The metre of several lines is decidedly faulty...
...choir sing the following anthems: "The Son of God Goes forth to War arranged by Sullivan: What are these that are arrayd in White Robes, Stained; And the city had no need of the Sun, Whitington...