Word: mean
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mean to inmply that we have knowledge that some one is trembling on the verge of probation; the standing of the men is something the knowledge of which belongs strictly to the men themselves and about which we know nothing. We speak of the matter simply because the temptation is strong for freshman athletes to disegard college work until they find themselves in a position from which there is no recovery. It is a provoking carelessness which is regretted immensely by the men themselves after the harm has resulted, and we caution the men on the nine and the crew...
...countenance. That old story fathered upon Cromwell, of his being found on his knees by a Puritan preacher whom he told he was 'seeking the Lord,' when in fact he was seeking the corkscrew which had dropped under the table, is a good illustration of what I mean. In life, as in a meanly-appointed theatre, the parts are doubled and the same actor who stalked as the majesty of buried Denmark, may appear as a clown after a change of scenes. The lover, the poet, the mourner, the mystic, after their fine frenzies feel that there is something ludicrous...
...effect produced by genius, thought, and feeling expressing themselves in clear language, simple language, passionate language, eloquent language, with harmony and melody; but not of the peculiar effect exercised by eminent power of style. Every reader of Dante can at once call to mind what the peculiar effect I mean is; I spoke of it in my lectures on translating Homer, and there I took an example of it from Dante, who perhaps manifests it more eminently than any other poet. But from Milton, too, one may take examples of it abundantly; compare this from Milton:- nor sometimes forget
...would once more remind you that while it is no man's duty to read much, it is every scholar's to read well; that is, to read real books and to read them in some sort as their mate. When I say a book, I do not mean so much printed paper held precariously together by two covers, and whose continued existence is only assured to it by a place in one of those almshouses for decayed literary reputations,- a great library-I mean a book which has that immortal soul in it which only the imagination can give...
These are the last words of the Bible and Paul often ended his letters in the same way. The sentence has thus become very familiar to us all, but what real meaning has it, is it nothing more than a formal phrase of dismissal at the end of a sermon. It surely should mean more than this to most of us,-even on the surface we see in it the overflowing beneficence of God and the generosity of Christ...