Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Night was falling as Vergil and Dante entered the infernal regions. The road was so steep and so gloomy that Dante hesitated to go on further until Vergil tells him that he has been sent by Beatrice to lead Dante from error into the path of righteousness. Dante on learning this declares he will follow him and will trust him. The poets enter through the gate, which bears the onmious inscription, "Leave hope, ye who enter here," and came into a scene of suffering and lamentation. Passing through the first great crowd of moaning wretches, and crossing the Charon, they...
...passion for the same ideal beauty that made the Greeks themselves Greek. The advice of Cato, cum bonis ambula, holds as good of books as of men. If the mind, like the dyer's hand, becomes insensibly subdued to what it works in, so also may it steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against darker days. It is the books which heighten and clarify the character, whose seciety I would bid you seek. I think they tend to keep...
...dormitory nearly completed at Yale is 160 feet long and 46 feet wide. It is four stories high with a steep gable roof with dormer windows. It is built of rough-faced Longmeadow sand-stone and its general appearance is very much like Durfee Hall. Three entrances open on the campus and 26 double rooms and 22 single rooms are to be the accommodations. It will cost about...