Word: golden
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hundred years woman had been falling lower and lower in social estimation. Even the attitude of the church towards her was extremely unfavorable, so much so that St. Jerome commended as "golden" the work in which Theocrastus stated that a good woman was rarer than a white blackbird, and complained that a man had nevertheless to marry without such a trial as would be expected if he bought even a beast of burden. The question whether woman was a human being was also soberly discussed at church council. It was finally decided that she was; but with so much favor...
Books Received."The Life of Nancy," by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., $1.25. "The Golden Age," by Kenneth Graham, Stone and Kimball...
...merit, but for a beauty and completeness of production that are certainly remarkable. Mr. Drew is an earnest student and all his work has the marks of careful preparation as well as of natural talent. During the past week at the Hollis in "The Bauble Shop" he has won golden opinions, and his second week will undoubtedly be fully as successful. Before the termination of his engagement he will be seen in one, and possibly two, new characters, which will undoubtedly excite great interest...
...find God teaches His people constantly by allegories. They make the truth easier to comprehend. Some people find in a literal interpretation of the Bible much reason to scoff at Christianity. Who, they say, cares to look forward to a future existence spent in a white robe, with a golden crown on his head listening to music? or who is terrified at the prospect of having a spirit bound by iron chains and tortured with material fire? No one, surely, but we do look forward to having a pure and spotless heart, to being crowned by royalty of character...
...moment, he comes too late for it; it is the simple passages in poets like Pindar or Dante which are perfect, being masterpieces of poetical simplicity. One may say the same of the simple passages in Shakespeare; they are perfect; their simplicity being a poetical simplicity. They are the golden, easeful, crowning moments of a manner which is always pitched in another key from that of prose, a manner changed and heightened; the Elizabethan style, regnant in most of our dramatic poetry to this day, is mainly the continuation of this manner of Shakespeare's. It was a manner much...