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Word: mastering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...labored, its versification most prosaic, and in several places a literal paraphrase of the novel which supplied him with his idea. The "Deformed Transformed" is less so. Caesar is a very human devil, partaking more of a cynical adventurer than of a minion of the Prince of Darkness. His master is also an adventurer, but of less intellectual pretensions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BYRON'S DRAMATIC WRITINGS. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

...their Master, pierced and dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VESPERS. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

...uninitiated may imagine, an irreparable injury to the College or undergraduates to ??? a few hours of recitations. This is not a primary school, where the master must stand over his pupils to see that they employ every moment of their time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL HOLIDAYS. | 2/27/1874 | See Source »

...said by some that Father Ennius invented shorthand, but Tiro probably originated the notoe by which his master's speeches were taken down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHORT-HAND. | 2/27/1874 | See Source »

...only a due recognition of the kind aid extended to art-study among the students by the present arrangement of the Gray Collection, that something be said of every series of prints exhibited, and as Rembrandt is a particularly interesting master, something about the fifty etchings by him now to be seen in Gore Hall may not be amiss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRINTS IN GORE HALL. | 2/27/1874 | See Source »

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