Word: recordsful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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And turn the mossy records of old time,
Neither the words "misfortune" nor "fate" seem to apply to that condition of positive evil which the tendency of the age to extravagance and luxurious living has brought about. The "form and pressure of the times" have not been subdued to their proper confines, but have been allowed to increase...
THE Athenaeum records a sale at London of a number of the prints that have been heliotyped: Durer's "Melancholia," pound 31; Marc Antonio's "Adam and Eve," pound 59, and his "St. Cecilia," pound 50; Rembrandt's "Three Trees," pound 123; a print from Van Dyck's "Iconographia," pound...
An infusion of some new life seemed necessary, and to this end the members worked sedulously to diversify and render the performances interesting by every means in their power. These efforts were successful in a marked degree, and the society can point to its records for the last six months...