Word: lag
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...acting on the whole was very good, though rather irregular, but considering that the Cercle has lost the services of three of last year's principal characters, Knoblauch, Schurz and Pitts, it was very satisfactory. The play chosen, however, is apt to lag a little in places, though some of the situations are extremely good...
...parlous a task it is to attempt systematic criticism of the present or near past in literature; but if we are to wait until the world has made up its mind about what it is reading today, it will then be reading something else, and our criticism will always lag superfluous in the development of taste; it will be useful to students, but caviar to the public. It is not, then, worth while to take Grimm's words to heart, and to have the courage to fail rather than leave the task unattempted? If the critic can be more helpful...
Last night Mr. Black lectured to an unusually large audience, on Addison and Steele. Our interest in these two great authors of the seventeenth century never seems to lag; it would be hard to learn too much of them...