Word: loved
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...written in his third year. He grew up, courageous and bold, and began the villianous side of his career when he was eleven by killing a playmate. Later he went to England and aided the King against the Scots. Then he came back to Norway. Here he fell in love with his brother's widow, and finding in the law some difficulties in marrying her, resorted to the court. The decision was against him and he immediately proceeded to revenge himself on the King who opposed him. After this he returned to Iceland and began a quiet life. He lived...
...athletics, the younger men in the ranks must be educated upon what are heresies, to so imbue them with the meaning of the term amateur that they will never consider playing for gain except as belonging to the professional class, and that they will always feel such a love for sport itself as to long for victory first, and next to that a hot inglorious defeat...
...Advocate, like the fourth has much excellent matter, the prose out-weighing the verse. By far the best piece of work in the number is a story entitled "From a Diary," by C. M. Flandrau. It is thoronghly artistic in every way. The plot is very simple - an ordinary love affair, - but it is worked out in exactly the right way. There is nothing unnatural in any of the conversations or situations, yet there is plenty of the unconventional and unexpected. The descriptions of the various Russian scenes which from the background of the story - morning in St. Petersburg...
...Husband Versus Poet" is a short tale having for its theme the story of a poet who tried his wife's constancy by adopting the plan of sending her ardent love-letters in an assumed hard and some of his most seductive love-sonnets. After much of this sort of thing, the poet's wife writes to her unknown admirer that she loves her husband and is faithful to him and hates the "namby-tamby verses which have been sent her. Dr. Jekyll, the husband, is complacent on learning the truth; but Mr. Hyde, the poet, is frantic with rage...
Petrarch was the first great figure of the Renaissance. He is distinct from Dante not it his Italian poems nor in his love for Laura, but in his being possessed by the passion of the Renaissance. Virgil is not only a guide but a master, a supreme authority, whose style, whose every peculiarity must be absorbed as must the whole spirit of Greek and Roman civilization. Petrarch assumes the Roman point of view and speaks of the barbarians, meaning the French and Germans. These were the nations who had founded great Universities, had developed Gothic architecture and had produced...