Word: someness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"King Arthur" deserves, perhaps, to rank first among the poems of Bulwer, as being the most elaborate. He deals with the same subjects and times as Tennyson, in his "Morte d'Arthur," and still can in no instance be accused of imitating the poet laureate. He obtains much of his...
The works of Bulwer in nearly all departments are very numerous, and deserve to be better known than is now the case. His "Athens: its Rise and Fall," although of little value as a history, contains some original and vigorous thought with regard to her institutions, legal and literary.
The class to which this hero belongs, curiously enough, has no common name. I protest against this deficiency, and call upon the College to supply it. Must one be compelled to say, "Have you seen the man who makes my fire, blacks my boots, brings up the water, steals the...
But to come to our principal object, how much larger and more beneficial would the effects of the institution be made if the smokers were not entirely excluded! The wish must have constantly recurred to the minds of nearly every member of that class, that he could enjoy his after...
It is quite common in many of our American colleges to disparage the services of young men; advanced age and wide experience being considered essential qualifications to a good instructor. So strong is this feeling in some minds that one of our New England colleges, in a recent prospectus, holds...