Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pretentious things are not always the best, nor are small things the worst; the Greek gem is far more truly a work of art than the nineteenth century plaque. This is the case with the February "Monthly," where by far the best two things are the little epigrammatic verses, "Ben Jonson and the Stage," by F. S. Palmer, and "Landor," by H. S. Sanford, These are at the same time highly finished and pointed melodious and witty. Mr. Palmer has produced little better than this in all his previous writings...
...fact that only one man in thirty has a fine philosophical mind; and like the "little learning" which is so dangerous, a smattering of philosophical cant develops a sophistical way of thinking and reasoning that is often absolutely destructive to high purposes. How many of the amateur philosophers and nineteenth Greeks in college to-day could give even a plausible reason for the constitutionality of a bill in Congress - a question asked on a recent examination paper. And if they could not answer intelligently to themselves, whether the promoters and the signers of such a bill were doing their country...
Semitic Seminary. Subject: Jewish Literature of the nineteenth Century. Reader: Mr. Bernhard Berenson. 7 Lowell...
...last five hundred years; and it certainly succeeded in bringing back those past epochs with startling vividness. There came a sudden clatter of mounted police, then a snarling of antique trumpets, and Lo! the hands on the dial of time swept suddenly back, all the harsh realism of the nineteenth century vanished, and the age of romance was with us once more. The year of grace, 1386, is drawing toward a close, and his Royal Highness, Ruprecht I, is celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes the herald, clad...
...merry-making. A huge boar is carried triumphantly aloft in a wagon, and then a stag. Falconers ride by with hooded birds perched upon their wrists; and sturdy huntsmen follow with eager hounds in leash. Through all our vicisitudes, we have now come to the dawn of the nineteenth century, and hereafter prosperity reigns supreme. Carl Frederick of Baden, the restorer of the university, goes by amid huzzas from a joyful people and the peals of music. A grand jubilee car with two maidens in white, representing the two genuises of the Schola Ruperto Carola, gay modern banners, modern dresses...