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...Come Forth, My Love!" is perhaps the better of the two poems, and evidences some love of nature on the part of its author. There is a Swinburnian luxuriousness and verboseness about the whole poem, and in the first five lines especially we are impressed by the manifest prevalence of Nature-osculation. The metre of several lines is decidedly faulty...
...rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal and deformed and entrenched himself there. The process is a psychological one and English writers have followed it with the difference that instead of making the reader psychologist, they act before his eyes. But the tendency is the same, to manifest the invisible world of inward inclinations and dispositions by the visible world of outward words and actions. Meanwhile the romanticism though declining in vigour, is far from decrepitude and has too been an international influence...
...evident to all now that Ninety-two did not care for anything but first place and this was made more manifest by an excellent spurt which she now made, rowing forty strokes to the minute, a spurt so effective that her lead was fully two lengths, five hundred feet below the bridge, and it was at about this place that the accident of the race occurred. Ninety-one and Ninety-three (a half a length behind the seniors) were both spurting, when unfortunately the senior boat-whose coxswain ever since the bridge had been steering on Ninety-three's course...
...manifest that Ninety one had fouled Ninety-three and prevented her from doing any good work the last three-quarters of a mile. And so Referee Peabody decided. His final decision was that first place be given to Ninety-two-that Ninety-one be disqualified and given last place-and that Ninety-three and Ninety-four settle it among themselves whether they row another race for second place or not, it being Mr. Peabody's opinion that Ninety-three was unable to show what they could do the last half mile. Later in the evening, Captain Burgess decided that...
...Harrison's popularity will ensure his re-election;- popularity manifest in his tour through the South: he possesses the qualities most needed in the chief executive,- common sense, and inflexible honesty. Landon's Const. Hist...