Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SPECIAL NOTICE. Spring suits to measure, spring overcoats, spring pants. We have the finest custom department in Cambridge. We have on exhibition at our store 1000 spring suitings. All our work is warranted first-class. Prices on suits range from $25 to $45. Perfect fit guaranteed. Students wanting our cutter to call at room with samples will do so at any time. J. B. Brine, Custom Tailor, 8 Boylston street, near post office...
SPECIAL NOTICE. Spring suits to measure, spring overcoats, spring pants. We have the finest custom department in Cambridge. We have on exhibition at our store 1000 spring suitings. All our work is warranted first-class. Prices on suits range from $25 to $45. Perfect fit guaranteed. Students wanting our cutter to call at room with samples will do so at any time. J. B. Brine, Custom Tailor, 8 Boylston street, near post office...
SPECIAL NOTICE. Spring suits to measure, spring overcoats, spring pants. We have the finest custom department in Cambridge. We have on exhibition at our store 1000 spring suitings. All our work is warranted first-class. Prices on suits range from $25 to $45. Perfect fit guaranteed. Students wanting our cutter to call at room with samples will do so at any time. J. B. Brine, Custom Tailor, 8 Boylston street, near post office...
Wagner's symphony in C was the last number. The introduction contained a few bars of chords, full but staccato; the attack was perfect and was fine work. The allegro is worked out on a short motive, reminding one of the first movement of the fifth Beethoven Symphony, and ends with a fine stratto. The adagio was in slow march time, a beautiful theme with elaborate ornamentations and canonic imitation between the strings. The Scherzo was a bright, quick movement. The finale was a very joyful composition. The whole was given with much life, but not with the delicacy...
...treated of those vases which relate to the later books of the Iliad. The episode of the death of Sarpedon shows how the ancient conception differed from the mediaeval. Death among the Greeks was the twin brother of Sleep, and both were represented by the same art type of perfect repose. This idea was far more comforting to men than the skeleton of Christian art. In the vase-paintings, Death and Sleep together bear away the body with infinite tenderness, while the attitude of the deceased shows trust and resignation. On the earlier vases the two are represented as conquerors...