Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the Harvard Democratic Club, reassembled at the beginning of the new year, take this first opportunity of expressing our heartfelt sorrow at the death of William E. Russell, of the class...
Besides this great work Professor Child edited many others, among which are "A Complete Collection of the British Poets from Chaucer to Wordsworth," "Poems of Comfort and Sorrow," which appeared in 1865, and his "Observations on the Language of Chaucer and Gower," published...
...burnt offering goes forth in all our lives; but in many cases there is no love with it. It is the evil in us that converts labor into sorrow. The selfish life is not only small; but it is not even human. Earthly love makes sacrifice a joy, and this earthly love is a reflection of the heavenly love. If we open our minds to Christ, we shall be filled with the Heavenly love and the light of self-sacrifice...
...novel in verse: "Eugene Oneguin,"-with an interesting sketch of the literary aspect presented by Russian society of the first decade of our century. The chief chacteristic of Poushkin's lyric poetry was harmoniousness and many sidedness. Equally excellent, said the speaker, was the poet in picturing human sorrow or human joy. One never goes without the other, and, to express the poet's complexity, the lecturer characterizes it as "pouring rain with brilliant sunshine." He endeavored to give his hearers an impression of Poushkin's language and its charm. The whole was frequently illustrated by translations in verse...
...lost when Adam fell. There was another vesper hour, when Christ called unto Himself the sick to heal them of their wounds. And He is still bringing His healing power to the spirit of man today. He gives joy for sorrow, and peace for despair. It is better to live upon the heights of our time than in the lowlands of antiquity. Let us thank God for all these blessings, and, above all, for the Christ who made them possible...