Word: hint
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attention first in the New Testament is the new view of life and death introduced among the Jews; for there is no reference in old Jewish law to an after life. It is, indeed, only by a most severe stretching of the text that you can get a hint of immortality from the psalms of David. But in the New Testament the whole air is full of immortality, although the Sadducees and agnostics pretended not to believe in it. All this change and much more was brought about during those four lost centuries. Alexander the Great overthrew the vast Persian...
...expression of what I was trying to say. It was these shy allurements and provocations of Omar Khayyam's Persian which led Fitzgerald to many a peerless phrase and made an original poet of him in the very act of translating. I cite this instance merely by way of hint that as a spur to the mind, as an open-sesame to the treasures of our native vocabulary, the study of a living language (for literary, not linguistic, ends) may serve as well as that of any which we rather inaptly call dead...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement...
...good though the latter is spoilt by too many love affairs. There is an article on "Cross Country Running" by John Corbin. It is cleverly written and is decidedly above the average of the other articles of the number. The poetry is no credit to the authors, "A Hint to Ye Goode Sainte Valentine" is weak in sentiment, metre, and spelling, while "Elemental Passion" is only passable...
...some other Greek play at Harvard next year. When I make this suggestion, I am fully aware of the care and responsibility that this would bring upon the shoulders of all who might be concerned with the presentation, but I have heard one or two members of the Faculty hint that some venture of the sort ought to be set on foot, and on that score feel justified in suggesting such an undertaking. The first objection to this would be that it takes an enormous amount of time to perfect anything of this sort; but who will not acknowledge that...