Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...bidding; but their efforts are of no avail to destroy the deep-rooted despair with which he is possessed, the horror of the world, or more especially of human kind, which masters him, and the unholy, but constant love for Astarte; finally, after several unsuccessful efforts to end his life, he dies, while the angels contend with him for his soul. It is true "Manfred" abounds in many fine parts, and is justly ranked among his best productions. Yet imitation is not Byron's specialty; his mind was so constituted that when he set himself to dramatize the ideas...
Sardanapalus is especially suited to the development of Myrrha's character, a pious Greek slave, passionately in love with her master, an Eastern prince, a man of noble parts, but deadened by a voluptuous life, and hardly capable of any exertion, except in extreme circumstances, when all his superiority appears...
...Life's weary toils, and griefs, and snares...
From his hands and feet the life blood...
This, perhaps, is but one of the many inscrutable ways of Providence. We have for a long time been defrauded of our money by the exorbitant prices which have been set by those who supply us with the necessaries of life. Now at last we have them on the hip; and, although the number of those who gain by this new method of retribution is quite small, nevertheless, as they are a credit to the College by reason of their shrewdness, we who have suffered do not grudge them the rewards of their labors...