Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...melancholy from him. In one of his fits of depression, she related to him the story of John Gilpin, which amused him so much that during the night he wrote it in poetry and repeated it at breakfast. At the suggestion of his new friend, he began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper broke away more completely than Wadsworth from the old poetic diction...
Cowper lived for five years after the publication of the Task, dying in the year 1800, just one hundred years after Dryden...
...fairy tale, the house was built from the top downwards, first the chimney and last of all the foundations. Even today we do much the same thing. We build our lofty ideal castles in the air, and then the task confronts us of adding to them the foundations which shall make them materialize. Those who can do this are those who achieve success. And it is a hard task. We belong to two worlds, the real and the ideal, and each has its share in our lives. All things have birth in the former; but they must gain their full...
...Harvard Camera Club has been requested by the College to take a set of photographs of the grounds and buildings belonging to the University, to make part of its exhibit at Chicago. The question was considered at a meeting of the club, and it was decided to undertake the task. The size adopted for the pictures is 14x17; they will be mounted suitably and all similarly framed. The College will pay all the expenses of the work, and the pictures will be sent as an exhibit of the Harvard Camera Club. They will be chiefly the exteriors of the buildings...
Lunches were served in boxes after the train left Worcester. The new men had an air about them of quiet enjoyment; they seemed to feel that they were just entering the easiest task of a lifetime. The old men realized that they had a hard time before them and many of them slept most of the day. The Wah Hoos elected officers for one year and then the car was fairly quiet. At New York the clubs weat right to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. Wendell '91 met the fellows there and made them feel at home After the Concert...