Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BIJOU THEATRE.- Harrison and Gourlay, in "Skipped by the Light of the Moon." Performance...
BIJOU THEATRE.- Harrison and Gourlay, in "Skipped by the Light of the Moon." Performance...
...describe. We were in the vicinity of a great university. We entered an old-fashioned hedge-surrounded house and found ourselves in an apparently well-stocked library. A large open fire-place yawned at its opposite end. A few dull embers flickered dimly there, sending out barely light enough to reveal the features of the room, and making the corners and recesses all the more fit abodes for the uncanny beings that haunt such places in the dead of night. Hundreds of volumes were ranged up the sides of the walls. Ancient tapestries from Venice and Florence draped gracefully...
Some twenty-five years ago, a number of letters, written by Boswell, were accidentally discovered and after a time were printed. They serve to throw considerable light on his peculiar character, for in them he expresses most unreservedly his ideas on people, on women, on love, on himself-indeed, on everything on which he had ideas. Boswell is one of those people we never think of blaming. He seems as incapable of wrong-doing as a child, and even while we feel a certain and even while we feel a certain sense of annoyance with him, at times, still...
Boswell offers some startling opinions about marriage, a few pages further on, while writing to a friend who had become engaged. "I am sensible," he remarks philosophically "that everything depends on the light in which we view it, and nothing more so than marriage. If you think of that weariness which must at times hang over every kind of society, those disgusts and vexations which will happen in the intercourse of life, you will be frightened to take upon you the serious charge of the father of a family; but if you think of the comforts of a home, where...