Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...latest trifle which the Cornell Review has touched with its light and airy pen is "Ecclesiastical Gothic Architecture...
With its sharp bold Gothic lines...
...like poetry, is simply the expression of national feeling, colored by the peculiarities of the individual. Murder among the Greeks was, like the Parthenon and the Iliad, simple, objective, severe in style, regular, and graceful. So the highest forms of murder to be found in Teutonic nations resemble the Gothic architecture and the poetry of Shakspeare in their wilder style, their higher emotion, their deep and solemn mystery. Coming to our own time, is it surprising that our architecture, our painting, our poetry, our murders, all betray a miserable want of purpose, of sincerity, of well-trained effort...
...thought at first that the rule should read "all cruelty"; but it is clear that the art of murder, like that of medicine (in the matter of vivisection), sometimes demands the infliction of pain; cruelty, in this sense, is not always avoidable. For instance, in that admirable and truly Gothic bit of art related by De Quincey, - the killing of the baker, - no inconsiderable amount of distress was put upon the subject of the murder; and yet would Pity itself deduct one atom of it? It was all necessary to the faithful carrying-out of the artist's conception...
...noble structure, guarded on either side by a majestic line of time-worn benches, must no longer stand an eyesore to the artistic proprietors of the mansions lying beneath its frowning walls. Truly this is an age of improvement, and no doubt a year hence a neat Gothic club-house with its grand stand and gargoyled tower will be kept from the vulgar gaze by rows of hedge many cubits high. How glad we should be to bid farewell to the ancient structure! There is but one thing to mar our joy. "How can we bear to leave...