Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when his plays, though written for an audience of fifty years ago, are being revived with success. Ibsen's frankness no longer causes sensitive theatre-goers to shudder, for he has long since been surpassed in that respect by lesser men, playing loudly the chord that formed only a fragment of his symphony. Ibsen, like Shakespeare, is in no great danger of growing antiquated; but if he were, his services in throwing aside the torpid and illusive glow of Romanticism, that had so long held European literature entranced, would still be invaluable. As so often happens, the Naturalistic movement introduced...
...textile gift of Mrs. R. H. Monks, recently made to the Museum, includes a sixteenth century chasuble in an excellent state of preseration, an eighteenth century English embroidery showing the influence of Indian painted fabries, a fragment of early sixteenth century tapestry, and a Bokhara embroidery that is dated early as the eighteenth century...
Recent acquisitions in the Fogg Art Museum have included not only paintings, but objects in the field of the decorative arts, for textiles of various types, including a fragment of early sixteenth century tapestry, have lately been presented to the Museum...
Professor Kittredge has presented to the Library a book which Professor Norton gave him in 1903, in which is contained the first edition of the "Wade Fragment," a sixteenth century reference to a tale used by Chaucer...
...here there is a lacuna in the manuscript. Whether or not the author was seized with a fatal disease, lacked a rhyme scheme, lost interest those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...