Word: hermit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Oliver Goldsmith's works are great favorites with native readers in India. Thus the loves of Edwin and Angelina have been rendered into Urdu as Ekantbase yogi, or "The Lonely Hermit," while "She Stoops to Conquer" is translated into the same dialect as "The Story of Beauty Unveiled...
...Blackstone was not only a son of that great University, but he had taken his honors at the hands of our immediate parent, Emmanuel College. Then again a few years later, when he welcomed the great immigration under John Winthrop, it was a child of Trinity that accepted the hermit's invitation, so that in this way, as it were, the great English University became sponsor at the founding of the New England Boston...
...fascinating sketch. It is an admirable portrayal of the inner life of a man who sought to express in his work the higher ideals which he cherished. The peculiar delicacy and enthusiasm of Dr. Brooks' touch is here seen at its best. The The succeeding paper, "The Hermit Thrush," by Mr. G. P. Baker, is particularly happy in one respect - that of tone. There are one or two striking lines, and upon the whole this is the strongest work recently published by Mr. Baker. A review of 'Herrick and His Verse," by Mr. F. S. Palmer, is light in handling...
...public boast that he reads no newspapers. That would be shameful if it were a fact, but I question it. No man who can read, and is in the possession of his senses, could so shut himself out of the world, unless he went off and lived as a hermit beyond the boundaries of civilization. The instructor may say, and possibly even think, that he does not read the newspapers, but you could corner him on cross-examination. It is a silly boast, and especially silly when coming from a college instructor. - [Progress...