Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or brightness to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on". STOCKTON KIMBALL...
Speaking of the history in Homer's works, he said, "We see the germs of many modern institutions, government, home life, and kinship between God and man in his poetry. All nature is alive and free: splendor and squalor, kindness and savage disposition are found side by side...
With reference to the stories themselves. Professor Palmer showed how the "Iliad", with a duration of only a few days, reaches a great height of splendor, while the Odyssey has an even beauty, which is lacking in the "Iliad", as well as great artistic skill. "The ability to produce joy", he said, "seems to be at its height in these poems. It is not the source of the various incidents, but the way in which they are welded together that is the sign of the artist...
...Scene III Man is at the summit of his career and all is magnificence and splendor. The action is in a great ballroom with a raised platform at one end, across which Man makes his triumphant way. There is a great central window showing a deep blue sky in the center of the stage. The railing around the raised platform, which is reached by two sets of steps, is of gilt and a great...
...visitor, on entering this museum, it seems to me, can help being impressed with the austere solemnity of the Romanesque hall, the noble delicacy of the Gothic chapel, or the massive splendor of the Renaissance room, and thereby at once being transported into the very spirit of the most significant stages in the development of European culture. This effect of the building itself is heightened by the large collection of architectural views contained in a suite of smaller rooms, views of mediaeval cathedrals and castles, Renaissance city halls and burgher houses, and Baroque and Rococo mansions and palaces. This museum...