Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Soon after Sir Temple died. Swift had gone to London, and soon appeared as a political writer in favor of the whigs. His wit and force made him formidable so that, when be turned to the town, he was received with open arms. He became the intimate friend of the great ministers, was of the highest consequence in the state, and the patron of all literary...
...room have tried our patience sorely, even so far that a year or two ago a movement was started to raise subscriptions to form the nucleus of a fund for the erection of such a reading room as has just been given us. The generous gift of some anonymous friend has spared us the necessity of waiting. perhaps many years, before the student movement could bear any practical result. To both of our unknown friends we wish to extend the heartiest thanks of the student body, whose appreciation is hearty and sincere...
...poems brought Pope much praise but very little money; so in 1715, he began his translation of Homer as a commercial speculation. As he had no knowledge of Greek and was obliged to use Latin and French text, his translation is far from an exact one; in fact a friend remarked to him that he had produced a very good poem but he must not call it Homer's. The translation was, however, very successful, and with his fortune he bought the estate at Twickenham, called by Swift, "Pope's Villa...
...souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...
...this number is also printed a paper on Charles Sumner written just after his death by the Marquis de Chambrun. Although called "Personal Recollections of Charles Sumner," there is very little "personal" about it. The Marquis was a friend of Charles Sumner and wrote from the standpoint of a man who knew his subject personally, but beyond that, there is little more than a history of a part of Sumner's political career. There are no personal anecdotes, in fact there is little that a careful historian could not have collected...