Word: plot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plot of the book is fanciful and strong. Many of the situations are dramatic and intense in feeling, and the fantastic moods of the central character, Richard Beverly, are admirably worked out. But although, as a whole, we heartily commend the plot, there are a number of instances where, it seems to us, its development has been uneven and almost weak. The incidents are not always up to the pitch of dramatic strength which the plot requires, and the book seems at times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several...
...story is told throughout in terse and vigorous English, and Mr. Wendell's style strikes us as both forcible and graceful. The many descriptions, in particular, are remarkably well done. However, one may regard the weirdness of the story, and the fancifulness of the plot, everyone will agree that as a piece of literary workmanship the book is almost perfect. There are some vague and rather meaningless sentences scattered through it, but all in all, the manner in which the story is written is beyond criticism...
These peculiarities of King Lear have been thought to make it unfit for the stage. Lamb, in the midst of scathing remarks about one who had mutilated the plot and aspired to improve on Shakspere, asserts that Lear cannot be acted. Such a judgment may be regarded as a bolder impeachment of Shakspere than the mere alteration of a plot, since it condemns, not a part, but the whole, for the purpose for which it was written. For I take it that closet tragedies are not produced until authors get to be more in love with themselves than with nature...
...their own fair hands. The young ladies of this high seat of learning are, no doubt, partisans of Mr. Hendricks' who seems to be a favorite with the gentler sex, and they would like to see that staunch Democrat in the Presidential chair. It was a guileless, girlish plot. The President-elect, being too busy to eat that cake will live...
...plot of ground upon which the new monument to John Howard stands is a place of great historic interest. The team "The Delta" which it today bears has become restricted in meaning and applies only to what was originally a small portion of a place of much greater extent. The old Delta embraced the entire triangular space enclosed between Quincy and Kirkland streets and Broadway. It was used many years ago as the "play-ground" of the students and was the first gymnasium that Harvard ever possessed. It is not known when it first came into possession of the college...