Word: horror
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that authority. The writer of the editorial in question does "conscientiously" deny many of the "facts stated," and declares them to have been the offspring of an ignorant or a prejudiced mind. As for conclusions, he who runs may read. We trust that the writer's Elijah-like horror at the "tabooing" of the discussion of morning prayers since the last glorious but fatal prayer petition will wear off with his increasing years. It is high time that some reply, however inadequate, should be offered to the contemptuous sneers and jealous animadversions of which Harvard has been made the object...
...pleasing diversities of Harvard life is the amount of thought which is bestowed upon the student by his anxious admirers of every class. We hear at times the religious wail soon drowned in the cry of horror arising at the news of a "Harvard rush." And as a fitting accompaniment, we hear the low sigh of the maiden aunt at "those horrid Harvard punches." But when revolving time brings us face to face with questions of Harvard finance, the country is inundated with a mass of information concerning the Harvard pocket-book which is more stupendous than truthful...
...doubt it is, but does any of them think that its strangeness bears, maybe, some witness to its unlikelihood, that the astonishment which they feel at reading it is perhaps a proof of its exaggeration? No. They accept it as true, and hold up their hands in pious horror at the doings of these college men, perhaps even while they are reading some other article in the same paper and wondering whether there really can be any truth in that. College life is not so black nor are college men so hardened as they are painted, especially not so when...
...great a paradox may well induce us to think better on this subject. Indeed, it seems to me that no play can gain more by being seen than such a play as King Lear. Who has ever realized, without the aid of the senses, all the horror and pathos of such a scene as that in which Lear speaks with Edgar and the fool? The majestic madness of the King, the bitter jests and incoherent ditties of the fool, the hideous gibberish of Edgar, each in its peculiar tone telling a story of great and unmerited woe,- what a marvelous...
...meantime, my friend," he goes on, "I am happy enough to have a dear infidel; but don't think her unfaithful, I could not love her if she was. There is a baseness in all deceit which my sould is virtuous enough to abhor, and therefore I look with horror on adultery. But my amiable mistress is no longer bound to him who was her husband; he has used her shockingly ill. Is she not then free? She is, it is clear, and no argument can disguise it. She is now mine, and were she to be unfaithful...