Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Godfrey Kneller was the first English portrait painter to achieve a great reputation. He left behind him a substantial fortune and five hundred unfinished portraits. Grace rather than likeness characterized his work. William Hogarth succeeded Kneller. He was at first an apprentice to a silver-smith and then an engraver. In 1727, then in his thirtieth year, he painted his first portrait. He became famous by his satirical representations of vice and folly. His picture, Marriage a la Mode, which now hangs in the National Gallery is his masterpiece...
...have failed to materialize and the positive advantages of the new arrangement, taken as a whole, seem so evident as completely to justify the change. The former club-table men were called upon to make a sacrifice which meant a great deal to them, and they submitted with excellent grace to what appeared to be the good of the majority. If they cannot help thinking occasionally of the good old times, they have at least the consolation, which should be a real one, of knowing that the new system is one of comparative luxury to the unfortunate members...
...might be said that a protest against the name would have come in better grace before, rather than after the defeat by Brown. We do not think so. The University at large cares very little about the name of a scrub team so long as it limits itself to playing unimportant teams. But when a few men who call themselves the University team play against the accredited representatives of another college and the impression is given to the public that the contest is between the two colleges, the University has a right to demand that the team which bears...
...death his friends have lost a companion attractive alike for his studious tastes, his grace of manner, and his enthusiastic manhood; and his class and college have lost a loyal supporter...
...where an apology was needed. It is not for us to criticize the action of the public in being annoyed, - it is for us to apologize, not as if we were made to, but as if we did it voluntarily. Such an apology as ours is robbed of its grace and is hardly worth making...