Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Romance Philology Conference. Subject: Sweet's Elementarbuch des gesprochenen, English. Professor Sheldon. Sever...
...MONDAY.Romance Philology Conference. Subject: Sweet's Elementarbuch des gesprochenen English. Professor Sheldon. Sever...
...latter preposterous statement that I would disprove, annihilate, subvert - leaving not one stone on another. Of all the emotions that rule mankind, the most universal, the most persistent, is the longing for rest; second to it, and hardly less all-embracing, is the desire for joy, for laughter - the sweet laughter of the Homeric Gods...
...rather turgid sonnet on "Evangline" begins the number; then, after the editorials, a rather powerful story, the treatment of which is new, though the phraseology is somewhat stiff and threadbare. Following are three sweet, dreamy stanzas, entitled "Homeward." They improve on second reading, and with the couplets headed "Another Answer," bring the verse of this issue much above the average. Between the these two intervenes a not very pointed and somewhat cynical story, "Broen's Mistake." It has one fatal fault that it is not true to nature; now who does write truely cannot act truely, and his work...
...have become more and more dramatic, come to a blood-curdling conclusion. In this, the last chapter, the outlines are very strongly drawn, but there is too little detail. The memory of the story is better than the reading for that reason. Next are some verses entitled "Valentine;" very sweet, though the subject is not of yesterday...