Word: mannerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evident that some radical change in the manner of conducting a University race is necessary to insure a fair, interesting, and satisfactory race; but on this subject we reserve suggestions till a more favorable time, when we shall have some to make...
From which may be gathered some idea of the manner in which Mr. Samuel Spriggins celebrated his attainment of a liberal educated manhood...
...opportunities for a display of forcible oratory, which were fully improved. As a dramatic recitation, the rendering of a selection from Shakespeare's King Lear by Mr. Taylor was something wholly unusual in its excellence. Mr. Dumaresque, in his selection from Bulwer's Richelieu, was distinguished in a similar manner. Mr. Ellis delivered, with appreciative feeling, a portion of Webster's speech on the murder of White, while Mr. Holman was very successful in meeting the varied requirements of Browning's Herve Riel...
...return to "college songs" gave evident satisfaction to the audience, and, judging from the hearty manner in which they were sung, the club itself must have enjoyed them...
This and other like opinions which the author holds in the latter part of his book, together with a somewhat obscure manner of expressing his ideas, make it but an indifferent text-book, though as an expression of the present position of philosophy it is of great value...