Word: spite
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...show a lack of confidence when he is in the box. Ames, who finished out the game, did a little better. He held the Amherst team down to two hits in the six innings that he was in the box. Whittemore played by far the best game in spite of his two errors. The whole team showed a tendency to go to pieces at critical moments...
...features of the race were the plucky showing made by the freshmen in spite of their defeat, and Kales's stroking of the '96 crew...
...century, just as Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Coleridge have done for the first half. From a standpoint of substance, rather than of form, Tennyson and Browning stand at opposite poles. Tennyson represents the spirit of science and law, while Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth has or the Pagan gift of union with it that Shelley has. Nor in them shall we find the mystic imagination of Coleridge. And neither of them sees things...
...less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English pronunciation is essentially that. It is not strange that the islanders should have swung away from their continental neighbors in this matter, but it is strange that they should have adhered to their perverse pronunciation in spite of all the efforts of various intelligent persons to adopt in some manner the continental system. Milton, like a sturdy Puritan, fought vigorously against it, and Walter Scott opposed it, though his more gentle disposition made him finally yield to the custom of Court and College...
...held in Boston some seven years ago when he said "And as I came up I met Lemuel Barker on the stairs." In Howells we see one of the few representatives of what is called the new method, who have made themselves famous among English speaking people. In spite of all that is said about the prejudice and obstinacy of our English brothers, it is from the American people that Howells has received the severest opposition in his efforts to carry out this new method. It was in Howells's criticism, the setting forth of his own principles...