Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tales from Shakespeare," and some other things-the re-establishment of the London Magazine gave him the opportunity for the most characteristic work of his life. Mr. Copeland spoke of the time passed in the Temple, the insanity of Mary Lamb, the childhood holidays at Blakesware, and the friendship with Coleridge and one or two other men, as among the determining influences of Lamb's career...
...concluding instance of the three was that of Tennyson and Arthur Hallam. The friendship of these two young men has taken poetic shape in Tennyson's elegy, "In Memoriam." Mr. Copeland said a few words by way of comparing, or rather contrasting, "In Memoriam," and the two other most famous elegies in English,- Milton's "Gycidus" and the "Adonais" of Shelly; and he commented on the suggestion once made by a clever woman that, although literary ambition would have been more highly gratified by writing "Adonais," there is, nevertheless, a more complete expression of personal and intimate human feeling...
...address finished with some remarks upon friendship and the lack of it in college life; Mr. Higginson's friend-commemorating gift of the Soldiers Field as a play ground for the University; and a reference to the speech made by Mr. Higginson in gift of that field to the College, in Sever Hall, five years ago. The usual illustrative reading was made up last evening of selections from "In Memoriam," and the speech just spoken...
Such a state of things is not altogether to be regretted. It creates a healthy and sympathetic activity among those engaged in each line of intellectual work; it admits of a congeniality of acquaintance and friendship as great as, if not greater than, can exist at other colleges. But it very obviously does not admit of as much contact between men of different interests as is inevitable where they are thrown together in the same classes for four years. Such contact, if we had more of it, would mean, not that our present social relations would be materially altered...
...rhetoric. He does know of the periodic sentence. The book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part of the book did exercise this influence upon him, but that just as soon as Trilby began to be hypnotised, he began...