Word: papyrus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pindar and was considered by the Alexandrian critics as one of the nine greatest Greek lyric poets. Unfortunately his writings have been completely lost for fourteen hundred years and our knowledge of him has been confined to a few fragments quoted by other writers. By the discovery of this papyrus, however, which dates from 50 B. C., twenty poems of 1070 lines have been restored to us. Six of these poems are examples of a species of Greek literature of which there have hitherto been no complete specimens. There are attempts at lyrical scene-painting, without the usual celebration...
...Lehmann was a guest of the Papyrus Club Saturday evening, and in answer to a speech by B. G. Kimball '37 spoke in the interest of athletics and of rowing in particular. S. G. Wells '86 was also present...
Colonel Chase was well known in business and literary circles, and was a member of many clubs, in two of which, the Papyrus and the St. Botolph, he has held offices...
...learned it becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons of the scholar-pen, ink, paper-all point to foreign origin, and one of them carries us back to the papyrus that waved its slender stems over the little river of Syracuse...
...public favor. However, the play as a whole, and especially the music, is intrinsically worth enough to insure a large circulation. It is sate to say that in the repertoire of the whistling public, which is very largely the musical public, such taking airs as "Delsartee Q. McCartee," "P. Papyrus," "Only a fifth-rate Swell." etc., will find an immediate place...