Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Judge Ingraham, in the New York Superior Court yesterday afternoon denied the application by Salmi Morse for a mandamus to compel Mayor Edson to grant him a license to produce the Passion Play...
...Alden, author of "The Moral Pirates;" W. H. Bishop, "The House of the Merchant Prince;" J. Cheever Goodwin, "Evangeline;" Robert Grant, "Confessions of a Frivolous Girl;" A. A. Hayes, "A Symposium on the Chinese Question;" G. T. Lanigan, "Fables Out of the World;" G. P. Lathrop, "An Echo of Passion;" J. B. Matthews, "French Dramatists;" H. G. Paine, "All on a Summer's Day;" Arthur Penn, "The Rhymster;" J. S., of Dale, "Guerndale;" F. D. Sherman, "Her Portrait by Sarony;" J. T. Wheelwright, "Rollo in Cambridge...
...Thee," proceeding from an injured runner, clashed with the "Babies on Our Block." By this time the whole air resounded with a wondrous pot-pourri, a strange medley of songs, hymns, anthems, curses, utterly regardless of time or place, each player translating into sound the overwhelming passion of his soul. But this sublimity could not sustain itself. The crisis was approaching. One of the basses, by a mighty stroke, sent the ball high into the air; it paused, hesitated, then floated between the goal posts. Breathless was the suspense as it rose, and silence seized the entire company...
...from the recitation room, and became well acquainted. He was genial, sociable, and agreeable, and always a gentleman in his deportment. Not meditative and shy, like his subsequently distinguished classmate Hawthorne, he was uniformly cheerful. He had a happy temperament, free from all envy and every corroding passion or vice...
...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 any lover endowed with tolerable agility could vault to the side of his mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment...