Word: gems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...divinity fillets like a gem...
...write decent prose. Here is a specimen that the late A. S. Hill should have lived to study: "It is not so much a respect for obtaining these rhymes that we feel, but rather that he is able to work them into a poem so facilely." This gem adorns an essay on "The Inimitable Ingoldsby Legends." Eventually, we foresee, Mr. Jayne will get round to the works of W. S. Gilbert...
Polish is an essential to the musical comedy gem and it can come only as the result of constant cutting, burnishing and reburnishing. This form of polish is the chief lack of "The Love Mill" as we see it in its youthful newness. The basic qualities of musical glitter and comedy brilliance are present, but to bring them out really successfully a process of careful smoothing and refining must be gone through. There is here also the sincere attempt on the part of the producer to give more than just the average "show." Cast, costumes and scenery reflect much care...
...gem of the whole group is a product of the Aldine Press. It is also the oldest, its date being 1501. Aldus Pius Manutius was a Venetian and did some of the most excellent work of any of the earlier printers. He reached the height of his art in 1501 when he printed editions of Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Martial. Of the edition of Virgil only a few defective copies remain. It is impossible to find even a nearly perfect volume. Aldus also was the inventor of italics...
...general, however, the poems give the impression of jewels too richly set. Gem is juxtaposed to gem without regard to total effect. The above metaphor is inserted in a simile and the sentence in which they occur contains some half dozen other similar brilliants. This galaxy tends to obscure rather than clarify the fact that Nicolette looked forth from a tower and dropped by a cord to the earth below. Incidentally the cord in this procedure becomes a "thread of lustre" and Nicolette "a drop of radiance." The mediaeval romancer in his description of this episode had instincts which were...