Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...triumphs over her meaner-spirited rival and has it in her power to retain all her advantages, her noble nature shines forth after a fierce struggle, and she decides to confess, abandon all, and return to her former degraded condition. Every kind and degree of passion of which human nature is susceptible is found in this character. Ambition, gratified pride, love, hate, fear, and remorse, each struggle in turn for the mastery, and these, it is needless to say, are portrayed by Miss Leclercq in a most artistic and powerful manner. Miss Orton has the part of Grace Roseberry, which...
White hovering over every human thing...
What is Shakespeare - the copyist of the minutest details of human experience - to me when I can revel in the imaginary haps and mishaps of gods and demi-gods? What the conciseness of Pope, the grandeur of Milton, the exquisite finish of Tennyson, the beauties and excellences of all modern genius, when I can find the semblance of these qualities in a language of two thousand years...
...love the Classics. I venerate the ancients, because their knowledge of nature was superior to ours, their science more advanced, their ideas of the human relations broader and purer, and, finally, because my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather venerated and studied them before me. "With a loud voice I shall respond to every ruthless attempt to tear from our college course the study of their language: Procul, O procul este, profani...
...this is the subject of an annual presentation to the happy occupant of a corner room in the ground-floor of Hollis. The last item is a skull, with a few names artistically painted on the exterior; there is also pasted thereon "Byron's Apostrophe to a Skull." A human skull in this heterogeneous heap! When I reflect that "history sometimes repeats itself," the inference drawn is not a pleasant one. I might increase this group indefinitely; enough objects have been given to show what are used as transmittenda...