Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Davenport gave a lecture at Smith on Friday evening, his subject being "animal Friendship...
...particular attention to this for it is a rare opportunity to hear a discourse on the life and character of old Dr. Peabody. There is no one probably, who could speak of him with more interest and appreciation than Dr. Hale, whose acquaintance with him for years, and whose friendship was of a most intimate kind...
...else in the number for they all are good and are with one or two exceptions on pertinent and interesting topics. The stories of the number are on the whole below the average, most of them lack a point and are very weak at the finish. "A Study in Friendship" is undoubtedly the best of them, but even this is not to be compared with the stories of the last number. Two of the "College Kodaks", the second and the third are very good; the first, fourth, and fifth are fair, while the last is weak. The poetry...
Both Steele and Addison were born in 1672. Steele, an Irishman and the senior by six months. When old enough Steele went to Oxford, and there first met Addison, with whom he formed a friendship which lasted almost throughout their lives. After leaving college, Steele went into the army, against the earnest entreaties of his friends, and there acquired a knowledge of the lives and characters of men which served him well in his later work. He married a widow named Stretch, who soon died, giving him thus the opportunity of marrying again, in 1707. The letters which he wrote...
Soon there came more political troubles, and Addison in the height of his fame in 1716, married a rich countess, probably unhappily. Later he lost the friendship of Steele, and before his death in 1719 was entirely estranged from him. Mr. Black closed his lecture by a short and interesting sketch of the characters...