Word: parthenon
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WENDELL PHILLIPS, so the Student informs us, has been lecturing at Amherst under the auspices of the Base Ball Association; and the charges for the hall were "the same as those made to any dramatic company which 'gives an entertainment' in the 'Parthenon of America...
Here's another, - died five years before the Venetians blew up the Parthenon. (Reading...
...causes of this lamentable degeneracy lie deep, and therefore should be all the more objects of solicitude to the artist. Murder, like architecture, like painting, and like poetry, is simply the expression of national feeling, colored by the peculiarities of the individual. Murder among the Greeks was, like the Parthenon and the Iliad, simple, objective, severe in style, regular, and graceful. So the highest forms of murder to be found in Teutonic nations resemble the Gothic architecture and the poetry of Shakspeare in their wilder style, their higher emotion, their deep and solemn mystery. Coming to our own time...