Word: lamentations
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...Rich, '96, "The Lament of Oedipus," Sophocles...
...noble relation between David and Jonathan, and especially on the difficult position held by the son of Saul, between loyalty to his father and eager devotion to his friend. The whole Bible story of David and Jonathan was briefly retold and followed with the reading of the psalmist's lament, "How are the mighty fallen...
...Song," by Philip Henry Savage, might better have been called a "Lament." It is, however, not particularly noteworthy. The meaning of what he has to say may have been crystal clear to the author, but to the uninitiated reader it is vague and involved...
...might have been written by a landscape painter, had any such the refined sentiment and deep feeling united with musical expression that Mr. Woodberry has. The North Shore Watch is a threnody for the young friend who died in '78, to whom the book is dedicated. All through the lament the final alexandrines surge and moan like the rhythmic ninth wave that beats upon every shore...
...hours; and it must needs be interested in many things that will hereafter appear trivial and empty. But the test is whether the news reporter has told what for the moment is worth knowing, as an evidence of the actually significant human passion of the day, What I especially lament, then, in the journalism of the day is the too frequent absence of this ideal. Too often the newspaper appeals to the weaklings and to the sick among its readers rather than to the whole men and to the strong. As for the cure, that must come from the ability...