Word: superb
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This was enough. After having provided an armament for the contemplated slaughter of game, and ammunition enough to storm a fort, our party arrives, on a superb moonlit evening, at the neat and homelike Samoset. Mine host is something of a character, being a combination of the old sea-captain and English country gentleman. After a substantial supper and a bottle of Scotch ale he is ever a philosopher, with the tenets of Epicurus, and desires nothing better than a new lease of life, with permission to live on the Gurnet, with his dog and gun, and observe the revolution...
...Rubens, a demagogue. This may be admitted, unless the bad sense of demagogue is too much insisted upon. It was most natural for Rembrandt, who lived and died in Holland, to depict what he had before him, and that was a government by the people. In this truly superb impression we have Christ at the height of his fame with the people, represented somewhat in the light of a demagogue. He is in the midst of a group of the sick, who seek in different ways to be healed by him. Next him, on the left, we have a most...
...ground of association. Secondly, for hasty meals in a hot, crowded, vulgar room, under circumstances which make polite observances difficult and social enjoyment impossible, would be substituted a decent and comfortable service which would promote good manners and good fellowship. Thirdly, the moral effect of living in that superb Hall could not but be good. It is by far the grandest college hall in the world, and there are very few rooms for secular purposes in existence which can be compared with it. Built to keep alive precious examples of brave devotion to country, truth, and duty...
...impressiveness rarely seen. The support was unusually weak for the Globe, but may be accounted for by Mr. Sheridan's illness and the consequent changing of parts. Poor as it was, it hardly needs an apology, for it served as a dark background upon which Madame Janauschek's superb acting stood out with a vivid contrast. The previous evenings of the week she appeared with striking effect in the two characters of Lady Dedlock and Hortense...