Word: periodically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Alexander Pope. "It is necessary," he said, "in studying any author to consider carefully not only his life in connection with his works, but also the the life and political conditions of his time. There is always an intimate connection between the poetic and political life of any period and of none is this more true than of the Elizabethan time...
...this period of Queen Anne's time the four leading literary men were Pope, Swift, Defoe and Addison. The last three represented the prose while Pope was the poet. Pope's life and works were closely intertwined and much influenced by his circumstances. He was born in London, the son of a catholic linen draper, but very early in his life his father retired from business to a small estate at Binfield. Pope's education was of the most miscellaneous character; he received his early training at home and later went for short periods to several schools in and about...
...Daily Princetonian has not been issued during the examination period at Princeton...
There has been a good deal of righteous indignation about the conduct of proctors during the present examination period During the recent examination in Fine Arts certain of the proctors were observed to be immensely amused at some of the books handed in before the close of the hour. In other courses also, books have been opened and passed from proctor to proctor and treated much as copies of the Lampoon or Life might have been. Probably nothing could have been farther from the minds of the writers than the production of jokes and this unfair treatment of their work...
...other pieces of earlier literature incorporated in the writings of modern days. We know certainly that the Gospel of St Peter was written about 120 A. D., and it contains many quotations from the other four Gospels with which we are familiar; thus proving them to belong to a period nearer the time of Christ than has been previously supposed, and making them more reliable as a record of His life...