Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chaucer Society is of great interest to all students of Chaucer, and there is urgent need of new members in order to enlarge to the utmost its capabilities; and we fail to see why Harvard, already so justly renowned in classics, mathematics, and philology, should look with sluggish indifference upon the great field of early English literature, where "the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." The glory of Chaucer's poetry will surely not grow dim in future years, nor the sweet music of our morning of song die away. Let all lovers of what is pure...
...fleck the sluggish river's deep...