Word: thought
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...resulted in the arrest of its three authors. The comedy was then modified and under the title of an "Alderman no Conjurer" the play was first given in its present form at Dorset Gardens 1685. Frequent references to America and a detailed description of Virginia, as it was then thought of in England, give the dialogue unusual local interest. In movement "Eastward Ho" is a comedy of manners though its dialogue is informed with the keen wit and subtle humor of which these three Elizabethan poets were masters...
...simplicity than "The Sculptor of Milos," by Charles Wharton Stork. The central idea of the poem, it is true, seems on a second reading, falsely dramatic, and is not justified by the scant explanation of its motive; yet the ease of the lines and the unfailing interest in the thought go a long way toward helping the reader to overlook this defect. Another piece of verse, "March in Massachusetts," by L. W., makes one wish to drop work and get into the country...
...about the best feature of the paper. The quaint humor which runs through the lines never seems to have been consciously sought after, and so becomes the more effective. Of the other verses, "A Song," by R. P. arrests one's attention with the swing of its lines. The thought, simply enough expressed, is more serious than most Advocate verse, but luckily was not entombed in a sonnet...
When, in the class meeting, a motion was made which was meant to begin the formation of a constitution for the Class of 1906, it was little thought that any one would seriously question the advisability of having such a constitution. This question has, however, been raised; and since, in nearly every instance, there has been manifested a misconception of the intention of the motion, it would seem well to explain what was really intended...
...Sidney Lee, Litt.D., lectured in Sanders Theatre last evening upon the subject. "Foreign Influences on Shakespeare." Abundant evidence exists. I said, which points to direct foreign in menaces upon Shakespeare, but we must attribute the skill with which he handle his foreign dramas rather to the gener diffusion of thought during the Renais since and to his own preeminent genin than to the influence of any particular foreign writers. To all his erections intensively gives universal emotions an at the same time, never losing sight his setting, he infuses, in his character the essential racial idiosyncrasies manned by the environment...