Word: mourner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 in dining, and to confess a fondness for lobster or a sorrow that oysters are out of season seems a satire on their hardly cold ideal longings and regrets...
...series of lectures he will give here this winter. He spoke on Tennyson, more in the way of tribute than of criticism. Last spring, said he, when we last considered Tennyson, he was in the pertection of his powers, now he is with the great dead. The mourner of "In Memoriam" is now mourned by the English speaking race...