Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...success. But art as an educator and an active power in the elevation and refinement of mankind no longer makes itself felt. Its best productions, instead of enriching the people at large, are sold to private individuals who can afford to pay the fancy prices asked, and are thus lost to the world. So it happens that men of the present day are as much indebted to the old masters as any before them; and were it not for the museums of Europe, in which their masterpieces are happily preserved, it would be difficult to say where we could turn...
...every change of facial expression, in every motion of his body, Mr. Warren's acting was a thing for study and admiration. The clear insight of Jacques Fauvel into character and motives; his transcendent love for his great-grandchild, most effectively shown in the scene where he supposes her lost; his confidence in the poor girl when all but he forsake her, - all were wonderfully real in Mr. Warren's impersonation. His dressing was, as usual, most admirably suited to the part. The other important character in the play is that of the self-sacrificing Camille, a part well suited...
...parts most benefited, and by the quickly succeeding contractions and expansions necessary to sustain a rapid gait, the lungs are constantly receiving fresh invoices of purer air than any indoor exercise will admit of. We know of a case where a young man who had lost his voice so as to be unable to speak above a whisper entirely regained it by a walk to Boston from a town in the western part of the State, taking a week for the journey. The bracing oxygen of a crisp morning in winter, or the balmy air of the better days...
...amendment after amendment added. The presiding officer showed clearly a lack of decision and an ignorance of parliamentary rules which a few more years in college may correct, and was, just at this point, in a cheerful state of mental haziness as regarded what motions had been made, lost, or carried. It seemed as if order would never come out of this chaos. The only thing quite clear in all the motions and amendments was that Yale was working hard to allow men to be taken from the scientific schools alone, in addition to the academic departments, and that...
...execution, the influence of poetry which celebrates one noble act as a full atonement for a thousand crimes, and teaches, if it teaches anything, that virtue shines brightest in a setting of vice, can be nothing but injurious. We need not regret that the heroic-ruffian has lost his place in the popular heart...