Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seen to more advantage than in King Lear. For here we have a central figure too great and awe-inspiring to be lost in the confusion of the scene. Lear's voice, whether in rage, madness or contrition, is so powerful that all the whisperings and wranglings around him seem but its tumultuous echoes. The accompaniment of incidental action does not drown the voice of his supreme passion; and thus is avoided that fault which appears in some of Shakspere's historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling...
...sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could not possibly be comfortable to sit, to lie or to take any posture upon whatever. Its perpendicular back and straight arms certainly give it a most uninviting...
...united, and not a thorn to be found. This is the most agreeable passion I ever felt: sixteen, innocence and gaiety make me quite a Sicilian swain. I have given up my criminal intimacy with the Edinburg women; in short, Maria has me without a rival." This would seem like a most satisfactory condition of affairs, but the fickle heart of Boswell could never remain true to anyone. He hears Miss Blair is really in love with him after all, and straightway his heart goes out to her. But only for a week. On receiving a letter from Ireland...
...expenses,- such as the full payment for prize flags, of which one half is borne by the other colleges;- expenses incurred on behalf of the class crews, and refunded by them, and c., and c. These nominal expenditures make the sum total of the expenses of the Boat Club seem, to one who is ignorant of the method of keeping the accounts, much larger than it really...
...students, in his library on Saturday evening, the paper with which he had previously met President Eliot before the 19th Century club, in New York, Prof. Duffield quietly remarked that there was "No doubt about the issue of this inter-collegiate championship." The press of the country seem to be of the same opinion...