Word: prosaic
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...drawings, including many initials and sail-pieces, are generally good. The subject of the piece at the bottom of the second page is somewhat painful; the dropping of one of the 1904 editors. (Is the text to this picture at the top of page 207?) The verses on "The Prosaic Age," may be taken as an editorial "Don't" for poetical candidates. The Misogynist's metrical will seems to have some broken cogs. "The Man who Comes up from the Crowed," is by a more experienced hand, and is in a more serious vein. The running satire on college...
...third act, two weeks later, Viktor has been released and comes to visit Sophie, who now esteems him more highly. From behind a screen she hears Colonel von Rembach's prosaic reasons for wishing to make her his wife, and then Viktor's violent declaration of love for her. Sophie accepts Viktor. The disconcerted colonel von Rembach is, however, happy to see his daughter Valeska joined to her lover Reinhard...
Thus it is that the beautiful fades gradually out of nature and life becomes dull and prosaic to dull and prosaic...
...opening story, "A Question of Medicine or Law," would be interesting if it were original, instead of being older than the hills. It may be asked also whether the familiar anecdote would not have been more pleasing to the reader in a more fanciful form, instead of in this prosaic garb. The conceit of the plot does not harmonize with the author's treatment...
...Leahy of the class of '88, has shown unusual poetical powers for so young a graduate in his publication "The Siege of Syracuse." He has clothed his ideas with varied and appropriate images, never becoming monotonous, prosaic, nor strained. His fine appreciation of the beauties of nature is perhaps the most marked feature of the book. As a drama it is not wholly successful, for though full of action and well sustained, it lacks plot and development of character. The historical incidents of the Siege of Syracuse are introduced, but have little real influence on the main theme, the love...