Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...giving some account of the victims "impaled like flies" who are now often remembered solely on this account. The concluding books are less personal than the first and the work ends with a very fine apostrophe. The coarse grossness of the Dunciad illustrates well the brutal spirit and thin polish of the century. After alluding to the pseudo-classical spirit that pervaded continental and English literature after the renaissance, Mr. Perry mentioned some of the questions that agitated the creeds of the day and led up to the state of mind in which Pope composed his "Essay...
...both Boston and the university the benefit of as near an approach to the real Greek thing as we can manage to effect. Instead of this there has been nothing but cackling over the one egg. A fine egg it is, a large egg, meaty and of a high polish. But we have heard enough about it. To some people the play erred on the side of elaboration; it was a case of amateurship assuming the professional garb; it would have been even better if it had not called together so many people and had cost less. Mr. Norman...
...past term. Prof. Baermann honored us by giving at Wellesley his first concert in America. His programme was delightful, chosen from the works of Beethoven, Chopin and Rheinberger. I never enjoyed piano music so intensely, especially the Chopin selections, which were rendered with all the exquisite feeling which the Polish composer has woven into his music, and with none of the sentimentality which some people think is the only interpretation of Chopin...
...occurred to me that he was a man of very great culture. He certainly had a capital finish about him; it looked very much as if put on with sandpaper and oil. And no man had a better claim to general polish, for he needed only to remove his hat to show...
...polish off Zend...