Word: models
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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WITH NO. 1 of the third volume, the Harvard Register appears in magazine form, and in all that pertains to careful editing, fine engraving, excellent paper, and almost faultless type-setting, it is worthy to rank with Scribner's as a model of printing...
...worse than write a book about an enemy, but I am certain that I can do nothing better than to paint Antigone beside her name, either as she is, might, or should have been, or as I imagine her to be. But what school shall I take as a model? I rather like the French, if they would use a little more drapery. The Dutch have more drapery than the French, though they are deficient in other respects. I cannot bear the sight of those Dutch girls with hats something less than the circumference of the earth, and with market...
...Harvard Register for June is the best number that has yet appeared. It is a model of typographical excellence and care, in which respect we know of no other American magazine, excepting, perhaps, Scribner's, that equals it. The articles this time are unusually interesting, comprising a paper on Phillips Exeter Academy, by C. G. Kidder; The Agricultural School as a Preparation for the Study of Medicine, by Professor F. H. Storer; another batch of General Oliver's Reminiscences; essays by Professors Trowbridge and Shaler, and several other contributions. The Class of 1830, by G. W. Warren, is a pleasing...
...poems have the widest range of subjects. In many of them, Nature is handled lovingly. "Daffy Down Dilly" is filled with the very essence of spring. "One misty, moisty morning" might prove a model of vividness and brevity to the many "word-painters" of the present day. Others have sought and found many hidden meanings in the rhymes of this Charlestown singer. According to some of these, "Solomon Grundy" is an epitome of Shakspere's seven ages of man. Another has found a foreshadowing of homoeopathy in the story of the man who sought in brambles a cure for wounds...
Author of these verses ? Is the character described a good model...