Word: passing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...remind one of those of "Cervantes and Ariosto"? Kourroglou's lament at the death of his steed Ayrat is one of the most beautiful and pathetic elegies in Oriental literature. Why did not Mr. Emerson expatiate on those three bright stars of the literary firmament, and why did he pass over with so little notice Omar Khayyam? Simply because, instead of dwelling on the lesser luminaries, he chose the sun, the brightest of them all, Hafiz. It was not his purpose in this simple essay to give us a complete compendium of Persian literature, embracing all the poets...
...Powder-House" stands on a slight eminence known as "Quarry Hill," lying directly in the path of one walking - short cut - from Tufts College to Old Cambridge. First a windmill, then a powder-magazine, it has felt the shock of revolution, and seen almost two centuries with their generations pass away. As we stand near its crumbling walls, our thoughts wander back more than a century ago, to the days of the good Queen Anne and the Georges, when the long arms of its fan turned merrily in the wind, and the early farmers for many miles around sent their...
...next year happened the unfortunate collision with Yale, almost at the beginning of the race. When our crew was away again, they began a spurt which lasted to the end, though on the last eighth of a mile they were much used up and allowed another boat to pass them. It was well done and deserves praise, though, if they had been trained as the crew of this year has been, and will continue to be, they would have rowed the last quarter of a mile in that race very differently. The remembrance of the race of last year...
Slow gliding did they pass and fade from sight...
...there are hundreds of others who cannot do likewise. There are men who, having been favored with early advantages, find in their memories stores of information and experience which they know that others lack, and yet which they take no pains to conceal. There are men, in short, who pass their whole lives in the effort to make an invidious distinction between themselves and their fellows. These are the men whom we ought to despise. These are the men whom our duty orders us to tread beneath our feet. These are the men who, if things were as they should...