Word: minded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much in this part of the Divine Comedy that will seem crude in conception is unquestionable, but to the careful student and to the lover of higher poetry, Dante's picture of Paradise will be a fitting conclusion to his wonderful poem. In studying Dante we should bear in mind that he had no mode or guide to follow in his writing. The Divine Comedy was the first poem of its kind that the world had seen. It was marvellous that there should suddenly have appeared in a country which could boast no literature, a poem of such large design...
Temperence is not Total Abstinence. There can not be temperance in any use of something which harms the human body. Even a single glass takes the edge off the mind. Tippling saturates and deadens all the vital organs. There is always a day of reckoning, sooner or later. There is one thing that should always be borne in mind and that is Total Abstinence is easy although temperance is impossible...
...time of Dante's wonderful journey through the spiritual realms was in the year 1300. On an afternoon in April he found himself wandering in a deep gloomy forest, not knowing how he had come there or where he was. His mind seemed weighed down with heaviness as if he had just awakened from a deep sleep. After trying for some time to find his way out of the wood, he came at length to the foot of a mountain, over which the sun was setting, spreading its red gold rays in a beautiful glow upon the summit. The poet...
...foolish to hold a "junior class dinner" when but one-seventh of the entire class intend to be present. Hitherto the class of '96 has been noted for its class feeling and for the spirit and enthusiasm with which it has supported its various teams. Bearing this in mind, then, let it not now be said that the class of '96 showed such little class feeling that less than one-quarter of its members turned out to its junior dinner...
...blank verse, is by turns sing-songy and jirkily prosy, but Mr. Irving is the most intellectual of players, and has illuminated the character of Hamlet with many subtle interpretations. As for M. Mounet-Tully, Hamlet is so strange to our ears on any tongue not English that the mind of his hearer is divided between natural bewilderment, and admiration for the varied beauty of this actor's delivery of his own language...