Word: life
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...important to call attention to the entire lack of available life saving apparatus at the Weld boat house. In previous years there has been a whitehall boat, the property of the club, moored to the float for the express purpose of putting out to the rescue of shipwrecked oarsmen, but unfortunately it is no longer seaworthy as it has been left in the river all winter. There is now a boat belonging to the City of Cambridge placed at the boat house by the I ark Commission for life saving purposes, but as it is chained and padlocked...
...shall examine the essential traits of de Musset's character, then we shall look to the conceptions he had of poetry and of life. We shall see how sorrow made a great poet...
...ended in tears. He was a Parisian and the air of Paris is exciting. He was a disciple of Voltaire and of the Eighteenth Century. If he attacked Voltaire most bitterly, it was because he felt Voltaire's spirit within him. He had a taste for the luxuries of life. He was at his ease only in distinguished surroundings. He was mondain...
...conception of life is that there is nothing worth living for but love. So he admires "Manon Lescaut" and " Don Juan." Love thus conceived is a sombre passion, a sacred...
...Musset's life all tended towards one great passion. De Musset was destined to suffer from this great passion, which was embodied in George Sand. Their relations are perfectly well known. De Musset was very unhappy; but after their separation de Musset was a great poet,- which he was not before...