Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...timid that he hardly dares to write a line, unless surrounded by dictionaries, grammars, rhetorics, a "thesaurus," books of synonyms, etc. His spontaneity disappears; he looks upon originality as something for which he must never make the slightest attempt, and he comes to think he has attained the ideal when his writing reads like a catalogue, and when he has acquired a style, which, from its lack of individuality, is no style...
...never seen a girl's face so closely before. Even Loe's beauty was known to him more by imagination than by experience. Every one called her the belle of the country; and the fanciful Yung had fixed to her his ideal of female loveliness. Here was that ideal realized in another woman, and that woman in his arms...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Ideal Opera Company. Tonight, "Pinafore." To-morrow's Matinee, "Chimes of Normandy." To-morrow night, "Benefit of D. J. Maguinnis," with the beneficiary as Izzet Pasha in "Fatinitza." Sunday night, "Stabat Mater." Next week, Carte and Rice's Company in "Billee Taylor...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 8 P. M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. To-night and to-morrow's Matinee, last performances of the "Pirates," by the Ideal Opera Company. To-morrow night, "The Chimes of Normandy." Next week, last week of the engagement of this Company, "Fatinitza...
Until last summer I had failed to find my ideal; but, while travelling from Portland to Bangor, I met her. The train had just stopped at a small way station; but, as I was deeply interested in "Troublesome Daughters," I paid no attention to the passengers who got in, except that I was dimly conscious of some one asking me if the seat next me was engaged. I replied "No without raising my eyes from my book. A female sat down beside me. A few minutes passed by in silence, when the woman sighed heavily. Now if there...