Word: prose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exceedingly clever and witty in conversation, and entertaining in a high degree; he wrote verse with charming grace, and had a particularly delicate skill in the turning of fine prose sketches. He could hardly have failed in a literary career, had he lived...
...Kiernan kept during January, February and March, 1888. a record of the fiction used. Of the 15,540 books drawn out in those months, 3027 volumes were prose fiction, and these were mainly taken out by the lower classmen...
...newest books in the series of German Classics for American students is a compilation of selections from Lessing's prose works, representative of his varied ability as a literary and dramatic critic, philosopher and dramatic critic, philosopher and theologian. Owing to the fact that a great deal of Lessing's best work was frequently in fragmentary form. Mr. Horatio Stevens White of Cornell University felt that some sort of an abridged edition of the great German author's writings should be given to the public. Lessing has never had all the credit due him, and it is hoped that this...
...half course in Old Norse, classical Icelandic prose, will be given during the second half-year by Mr. Babbitt. The time provisionally selected is Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9. Students who intend to take the course are requested to confer with the instructor, who will be at 5 Grays from 4.30 to 5.30 p. m. on Wednesdays and Fridays...
...Shell-a mournful but pretty little song. "A Virgin Priestess," by Mr. Batchelder, is an original but rather startling Druid sketch. "A Parable" is very brightly written. We hope the Blue Hound and the Small Young Ass will appreciate its humor as well as its sarcasm. The last prose article is "Jerry's Consolation," by Mr. Wardner, a sequel to "A Nineteenth Century Romance." It is written in the same humorous vein, and is the best thing in the number. The verses, "What the Tower Says," contains a good idea, but may more properly be called rhyme than poetry...