Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moment. Of course we have differentiations of the poetic sense. We have the love ditty, the laboriously elaborated scholastic exercise, the philosophical sonnet, the frothy nothing, and the pessimistic snarl. A great portion of the writing is naturally the direct outcome of affectation, much of the rest from an ambition to shine as a literary light. But here and there at rare intervals we catch a glimmer, transient, it is true, of a pure, new thought, which will not be crowded out, and will in its utterance prove its own intrinsic worth. This, then, we may fairly accept...
...glance at our degrees of success in the different things we have undertaken in our lives, and a correct conclusion is pretty sure to be reached. Even if we have been really successful in nothing, there must be something in which we have proved more competent than in the rest. Perfect success is not necessarily the criterion. And if there seems to be no hope of that success in the future, if our capacities seem so limited in everything as to promise little hope of advancement in anything, we must do faithfully that which lies nearest...
...will secure Divinity B for the rest of the year, with the right to reengage for next year. Apply to the Bursar...
...will secure Divinity B for the rest of the year, with the right to reengage for next year. Apply to the Bursar...
...will secure Divinity B for the rest of the year, with the right to reengage for next year. Apply to the Bursar...