Word: silently
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Schiller died. His life was indeed romantic, filled with many struggles against adverse circumstances, and at a time when he had gained a high position among his people he was cut off by disease. Goethe lived a silent life for twenty-seven years after and at his death left works which filled forty volumes. Of the two, Goethe was the more natural and worked on the inspiration of the moment; Schiller, a man who worked in art for art's sake. As to the relation that existed between these men, possibly the monument that is erected to their memory...
...endured the injustice. The appointment of a anitor-in-chief, who shall be responsible for the work of his assistants, will be received with much favor. The fact that all persons employed about the buildings are to be obliged to wear some distinctive and respectable uniform is subject for silent congratulation...
...natural that it should be suppressed. (b) It is in fact suppressed:- Appeal to Caesar, pp 68-87; Forum. Dec, 1887, Vol. 4, No. 4. pp 376-387; N. A. Rev., March 1879, Vol. 128, pp 227, 242, 282; Contemp. Rev. Vol. 53, pp 443; Cable's Silent South passim...
...Yale and Pennsylvania crews and the Columbia Freshmen were seen on the Columbia Freshmen were seen on the river. At 7.30 supper was served. Afterwards the men gathered on the piazza, and spent the evening very quietly. By ten o'clock everyone was in bed, and the house silent. Everybody was up before 7 o'clock in the morning. As soon as they were dressed the crew took a ten minutes walk, and at eight o'clock sat down to breakfast, At eleven the crew took its first row on the Thames. As the morning was terribly...
...South," a piece of composition of a high order. The climax of the story is very thrilling and the incidental dissertation of Mexican scenes are realistic. "The Swiss Yankee" is the title of an admirable bit of descriptive writing. The Swiss landscape in all its peacefulness and silent grandeur seems lying stretched out before the reader, while the account of the little guide has in it a vein of pathos which adds greatly to the sketch. The fate of an artist who fell in love with a ghostly maiden is told in "A New England Legend." It is very concisely...