Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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LAMPOON.- Will all men who have submitted drawings for the Lampoon, and others desiring to draw, meet the drawing committee in the new Sanctum, old CRIMSON office, on Linden St., at 4.30 today...
...GOODRIDGE, Capt.LAMPOON.- Will all men who have submitted drawings to the Lampoon, and others desiring to draw, meet the Drawing Committee in the new Sanctum, old CRIMSON, on Linden street, at 10.30 a. m. today...
...their "dual loneliness" in the Temple. This lasted until 1817, when they took up their residence in Great Russell Street at the corner of Bow Street in a house which stood on the site of Will's Coffee house. In 1820-when Lamb had already written criticism of the old authors, "John Woodville," "The Tales from Shakespeare," and some other things-the re-establishment of the London Magazine gave him the opportunity for the most characteristic work of his life. Mr. Copeland spoke of the time passed in the Temple, the insanity of Mary Lamb, the childhood holidays at Blakesware...
...Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth and Coleridge. As for his style, it has often...
...unreal, it is treated with unusual richness of imagination. The style is vivid and sensuous. It is pity that the author's analysis is not equal to his imagination. He brings together twin brothers, who see in each other no resemblance. They address each other as "child" and "old man" respectively. The Abbe of Cisley hates them with the most undying hatred because they were the illegitimate sons of his wife and his brother; yet the moment they succumb to his diabolical cruelty he finds he loves them as if they were his own children...