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...inspiration of Phedre, as with the Greek and Latin plays of old, came from the church. The play of Euripides, as we feel the giant force of the ringing sentences, while it holds us entranced, yet makes us shudder with horror at the uncouth roughness of the plot. The characters are in the main the same, the only marked difference being in the relative importance given to Phedre and Hyppolites; in the Greek, the play centres about the man, our only feeling towards Phedre being of the utmost contempt, such only as we might feel for the lowest of human...
...once and for all, let us not give the youths of the day the impression that the only sports to be indulged in are those which do not call for courage. To the timid, a vigorous, well-fought football game is an unpleasant spectacle, and they shudder to think of the possibilities. * * * A man of courage knows too well the dangers of the game, but he also knows how much greater are its benefits...
CHRISTMAS is coming and men begin to think with a shudder of the impracticable cigar cases, bad cigars and useless knick-knacks that will come to them from their female friends. Some sensible creatures, however, will visit Noyes Bros.' store at the corner of Washington and Summer Streets, and make their selections for their gentlemen friends from the most complete stock of men's furnishing goods in the world. Neckwear, gloves, and a hundred and one welcome adjuncts to a gentleman's toilet offer a choice of gifts which any male creature will be delighted to receive...
...used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise of the city, wonder at strange sights, shudder at crime and are shocked by vice. They cannot look at disturbances with equanimity and are more likely to form more intense convictions and to be moved by a sterner purpose than the careless city people. Their firmness of purpose makes them often greater and more stirring characters. They...
...ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold at heart, and-come...