Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...love your life, be spry...
...Till life became, like ballet throngs...
...those souls she especially appears who, in the melancholy of solemn moments, feel the bitterness of all human experiences; then, reaching out towards infinity, longing for a glimpse of that which is fadeless and pure, they suddenly perceive her shedding her brilliant fairy light over man's every-day life and nature's every-day appearance. Then the minstrel of the soul strikes his lyre, the soul is filled with deep tones of harmony, and the world faintly hears...
...oration at Amherst, last summer, urged upon the attention of his. hearers the need of educated men in politics, and-Dr. Holland has commented thereon in Scribner's Monthly, expressing his own conviction that, after all. it is not scholars, but gentlemen, that are the desideratum in our political life at present. Now to a Harvard student, with whom scholar is supposed to have become almost synonymous with gentleman, who himself claims to be both a gentleman and a scholar, this topic should be of no small interest...
That those who manage our State and national affairs are not altogether perfect, and that something is lacking in our political life, is evident, and so many a one, desiring to help in amending it, calls upon the class he considers the best, be it scholars, gentlemen, or women, to join in the good work and to "purify our politics." In our own opinion honest men are most to be desired by all who hope for a better administration of public affairs, yet an appeal to the honest men of the country to come forward to the rescue would probably...