Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cabinet maker. When eleven years old, Romney was taken from school and put to work in his father's shop. Here, in the excellence of his carvings, he showed his marked artistic ability. One day he found a book on art by Leonardo da Vinci. From that moment he gave his father no rest until he was apprenticed to an itinerant artist named Steele, with whom he stayed two years. He then moved to Kendal, where, unfortunately for her sake as well his own, he married Mary Abbott. At Kendal he lived until 1762, painting heads for three guineas apiece...
...game of football is not free from startlingly objectionable features. The moment that game is clouded by any whisper of bitter personal animosity or intentional violence, or unfairness, it degrades the game, those who play it and the crowds of spectators who give it their approval...
...Garrick," by T. W. Robertson. The story is well told, and the work of Goodwin is delightful. His dry, sarcastic remarks on the father's reflections upon players in the first act; his meeting with Ada at her father's house, his simulation of intoxication, his forgetfulness for the moment when she appeals to the better nature, thrills even his stupid hearers with the genius of his art, and his heart-breaking demand upon the father to aid him in getting away lest his strength should prove unequal to his promise, must be seen to be appreciated. Mr. Goodwin...
...several degrees below normal. The really strong plea for drinking is that it acts as an aid to conviviality, also that it helps at a crisis, but though it may produce temporary happiness, the following effects will be deeper melancholy and though it may stimulate for the moment, it leaves its victim all the more demoralized afterwards. The real state of happiness which we should strive for is one of perfect health...
...this crisis and also at the moment when the Cid throws his life at the feet of Chimene we feel the full influence of the master hand of Corneille. Le Cid is as remarkable an example of the true loving sympathy of youth as the two old men are of the prating foolishness of advanced years. In fact the only really weak character in the whole play is that of the King who has no distinctive personality or firmness whatever...