Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...tremble, false maid, who my true love betrayed...
...love with the Classics; for how could I otherwise lay any claim to respectability? Can he be a scholar who does not know that AEmilia Secunda, the younger daughter of Lucius AEmilius Paulus, married Marcus Porcius Cato, the son of Cato Major? or that Hermogenes Tigellius was a music-teacher, probably a Greek, and perhaps an adopted son of L. Tigellius? Assuredly not. These and similar facts constitute the very basis of an education...
...intact and enlarged by years of experience, and with much bodily vigor still remaining. In 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...
...entirely exempt from the charge that its "characters are taken from Newgate." Hauseman is certainly a villain, and Clark, the murdered man, was little better. Even Eugene Aram, whom my critic seems to rather admire, is not a good man; for, despite his good traits, - his love of study, fondness for animals, etc., - we ought not to admire a man who becomes deliberately the accomplice in a most shameful murder, I care not what may be his motives. Lytton himself, when afterwards alluding to this novel, speaks of the constant attacks on its morality. The character of the heroine...
...Yale Lit. for April has been received. In accordance with its custom of publishing in every number a love or ghost story, it furnishes this time one of the former class, "That Freshman," better than the average which are published in its columns, although open to much censure. The plot, of course, is not elaborate, and the characters are not so distinctly drawn as we could wish. Regarding the character of its sentiment, many different opinions are expressed. The chief fault, by no means an unusual one in such compositions, is the fact that the conversation is all carried...