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...Machina, "The Power of the Press," F. H. Kinnicutt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATES' NIGHT. | 4/29/1897 | See Source »

...fiction of the modern and the ancient world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Advocate." | 1/24/1888 | See Source »

...Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination, or to serve a more practical Deus-ex-machina end, dreams have been used by authors. Before such an array of wonderful dreams, we cannot but admit that dreams are among the strangest things in a strange universe. We begin to feel as humble as old Socrates, who said that he knew only that he knew nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Dreams. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

...Romulus and Remus," Messrs. Churchill and Sprague, as the twins, formed the chief attraction, and their pranks and songs caused great amusement. From the very moment of his rather novel entry as a deus ex machina, Mr. Briggs was very successful as "Apollo"; and the tableau and choral appeal to that jolly deity were most effective. Mr. Harding made a very motherly wolf, and sang his songs admirably. In both burlesques the tunes were well chosen, and many of them fresh. Indeed, the managers and members of the Executive Committee are to be congratulated on the excellence of all three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOAT-CLUB THEATRICALS. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

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