Word: landor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...event does here. The arrangements, as now made, promise that the promenade this year will exceed in brilliancy those of previous years. The decorations, by Gunzel of New York, will be on the same general plan as last year, but more elaborate. The dance music will be played by Landor's orchestra and Wheeler and Wilson's band will play during the intermission. The programme is as follows...
...things the worst; the Greek gem is far more truly a work of art than the nineteenth century plaque. This is the case with the February "Monthly," where by far the best two things are the little epigrammatic verses, "Ben Jonson and the Stage," by F. S. Palmer, and "Landor," by H. S. Sanford, These are at the same time highly finished and pointed melodious and witty. Mr. Palmer has produced little better than this in all his previous writings...
...certainly this to Harvard readers. The other of the two articles, "Unimaginary Conversation," has special reference to literary work in American colleges, and is a skilful piece of satire and common sense. There is much truth in the gloomy remarks about college poetry. As an imitation of Landor, this paper is by no means unsuccessful. The reader has some curiosity to know who "Margites Chitterly...
...more than ten or twelve authors at most can be studied during the year. We have absolutely no opportunity as far as I know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which...
...English Men of Letter series "Charles Lamb," by A. Ainger, is the latest issue. In the Golden Treasury series selections from Landor by Sidney Colvin, Professor of Art at Cambridge, and selections from Mahomet by S. L. Poole, are announced...