Word: meters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sixth century have been preserved. They show the rudeness and stiffness of archaic art. The design is very simple consisting of tall narrow slab, with a single figure of the dead man in relief, and always in profile. There is usually also an inscription in the slab, often in meter...
...composite work of gold and ivory. It was about forty feet in height, and between forty and fifty talents of gold were used in its construction. The technique of the statue is not clearly understood. The best representation which has come down to us is a statuette about a meter high, which was discovered in Athens near one of the gymnasia. It is the work of an inferior artist, however, and is only a fair production. It is executed in Pentelic marble, and, of course, many of the details of the great statue have been omitted. In a second statuette...
...Meter of Rome will speak to-night at 6.45 in the Christian Association rooms on the work of the Italian bible and Sunday-school mission. All members of the university are invited...
...other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress or only growing frivolity is out of our line of enquiry. It is an interesting fact that in many respects our southern exchanges are in the earlier stages just mentioned. Here is the last issue...
SENIOR FORENSICS.Subjects for third Forensic: Has the progress of the arts and sciences contributed to corrupt or purify morals? Are there any other differences between prose and poetry than those of rhythm and meter? Ought members of the Cabinet to be responsible to Congress? Give Burke's argument in his speech on American Taxation (Burke's Works, Vol. II.) Section 1, today; Section 2, Feb. 28; Section 3, March 7; Section 4, March...