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...Century during the coming year. Mrs. Gere draws an exquisite comparison between Burns and Mozart which every lover of poetry and music should read. Says Mrs. Gere: "The genius of these men was unlike, and they differed widely in character as well as education, but there is a certain kinship in the spirit that underlies the pathetic ballads of the one and the great tone-poems of the other. It is the spirit of love and humor, the intense humanity, the irrepressible sympathy with all living things that has brought them so near to the heart of the world. Both...
...recent criticism of Salvini's "Lear" says : "Despite the classic elegance of Salvini's acting and the perfect pathos of his whole representation of the tottering, grand old king, dozens of people came away feeling no more kinship with the woes of "Lear" than they would with some fate-driven hero of Greek drama. In fact, many admitted this parallel, and spoke of feeling something akin to the remote admiration that they felt for the OEdipus of Mr. Riddle when first presented to them at Cambridge, a few seasons...
...world to him is one great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead roots, and the hidden beauties of a language three thousand years nearer Adam than your own. In a word, in whatever phase this specimen may appear, he is riding a hobby-horse. The disagreeable part...
...same cloudy wisdom that enwraps so many others of their proceedings. It may be that they fail to perceive the importance of the strains of the hand-organ as a soothing stimulation to study. It may appear to them that such music has a kinship with lolling out of the window and addressing the dispenser of familiar airs in terms of slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College...
...stronger by contrast with the assumed gayeties of the occasion. These feelings are good. They are the true realities of existence. The man who is unaffected by them, on whom the past has no influence, is as ephemeral as the present in which he lives. He can claim no kinship to humanity...