Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extra illustrated edition of Johnson's "Life of Pope", contains many letters, documents; and portraits of Pope and his contemporaries; a volume containing 18 letters written by Pope to William Fortescue, between 1730 and 1739; the first edition of the four parts of "The Essay on Man," the first edition of "The Rape of the Lock", and "The Dunciad...
...Testament, with three chapters supplied in Johnson's writing. These are the first and second chapters of Matthew and the last chapter of The Revelation. A letter from Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds who painted the famous portraits of Johnson; the first edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson," the copy presented to Sir Joshua Reynolds, another later edition, presented to Mrs. Williams are also in this collection...
Relating several incidents of his career, Mr. Weber said that he had been taught to play the piano when he was six years old. Until his eleventh year this was "only a side issue in my life," he continued...
...play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without the restraint which our civilization acquires before a high spirit may be appreciated. His all-absorbing passion for Russia, however, his desire for her good over that...
...attempts to reach an ultimate judgment upon the whole problem by virtue of a particular example newspapers have treated the case from every conceivable aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time, as to whether a murderer should pay with his own life. For various humanitarian reasons eight of the forty-eight states have abolished capital punishment, there remaining forty that have preserved it, although they differ in procedure, most of them favoring electrocution or hanging. In any of these states when an execution takes place publicity is not lacking and the readers...