Word: likes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...writer believes that Memorial should not be permanently like a restaurant for hurried business men, but a dining hall whose tables should be as nearly as possible like home tables. There is one objection to the proposed plan which should not be lost sight of by either students or corporation. It is that where large quantities of one kind of food,- fowl is the best known example-have to be prepared, the work of preparation is done in such a hurry and so mechanically that the food is likely to be unpalatable. The present steward, who has done so much...
...inconsistency only because he has made us partakers of his separate processes of study instead of waiting till he could give us the precipitate of assured wisdom which would deposit itself from the combination of all. Perhaps a certain amount of such inconsistency is inevitable in a mind like his. He is the Demosthenes of criticism, who always has a client to defend or a criminal to attack, and he is perfectly right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms are never false in form. Moreover, a man who sets...
...Hilf lieber Gott, wie manchen Jammer habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts Weiss von der christlichen Lehre:"- no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic. Power of style, properly so called, as manifested in masters of style like Dante or Milton in poetry, Cicero, Bossuet, or Holingbroke in prose, is something quite different, and has, as I have said, for its characteristic effect, this: to add dignity and distinction...
...early literary efforts he deals only with small families, like a beginner who does not feel sure of his footing. "A Foregone Conclusion," with its Italian flavor and charm, is representative of this period of his writing. He later handled more numerous characters, surrounded by more complicated circumstances. In this class of his writings he introduces together with realistic detail, a type which is brought out and emphasized by his skill in individualizing character. "A Modern Instance" is an example of this style of novel and although furiously attacked for the grim and sordid tastes which it details...
...finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that we walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility...