Word: pall
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Arthur and General Grant are to act as pall-bearers at the funeral of Ex-Governor Morgan in New York today...
...Pall Mall Gazette is authority for the statement that Mr. Gladstone has resigned the English Chancellorship of the Exchequer, and that the Right Hon. Hugh C. Childers has been appointed to succeed...
...love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth, and so he does not write only of a theme to which college poets have so long devoted their talent and occasional genius, that, despite the universality of the tender sentiment, they have made it pall upon us and caused us to hear with pleasure the other notes that come home to our hearts from "the harp-strings by nature's palm so joyous struck," to use Mr. Hudgens' own words...
...writer in the Pall Mall Gazette, apparently by way of apologizing for Irving's maturity of aspect in the character, sets forth the fact that "Romeo's age is nowhere exactly defined. He is called 'young Romeo,' and no more." But surely that would be enough, even if there were no other indications in the text of Romeo's youthfulness, and there are several. The whole tragedy, indeed, may be described, and even explained, as a story of youthful passion. The same critic objects that the balcony is always so high. Usually, however, the balcony is so low that...
...Lowell, the United States minister, will be one of the pall-bearers at the funeral of Mr. Darwin...