Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Child specially distinguished himself as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and early English literature, and ranked foremost in the knowledge of songs and ballads. By his works he has done more to save to us the old songs and ballads of England and Scotland from oblivion than any other man. He was a great Shakespearian scholar, and in 1848 published a work entitle "Four Old Plays," containing a collection of old English plays. He was also a great lover of Chaucer and Spenser, and in 1858 edited an edition of the latter's poems...
...hands of genius? His teaching, whatever it was, is part of the air we breathe, and has lost that charm of exclusion and privilege that kindled and kept alive the zeal of his acolytes while it was still sectarian or even heretical. but he has that surest safeguard against oblivion, that imperishable incentive to curiosity and interest that belongs to all original minds. His finest utterances do not merely nestle in the ear by virtue of their music, but in the soul and life, by virtue of their meaning. One would be slow to say that his general outfit...