Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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LECTURES ON BEAUTY AND USE IV. "The Essence of the Tragic." Dr. H. M. Kallen. Emerson F, 4.30 P. M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
LECTURES ON BEAUTY AND USE. IV. "The Essence of the Tragic." Dr. H. M. Kallen. Emerson F, 4.30 P. M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...Justice. He fascinates Rachel, who, in, turn, inspires in him an emotion that gradually becomes actual human love. Rachel throws over Richard, her betrothed, who challenges Ravensbane to a duel. In the third act, as the climax of a series of scenes, humorous on the surface, yet large with tragic significance, Ravensbane is suddenly confronted with his scarecrow self, in the the glass of Truth. At the beginning of the fourth act, he is found in the deepest agonies of despair, for his kindled spirit revolts at sight of himself, as he really is. He at last recognizes the fiend...
...subject of friendship is an all important one and the determination of it must be met largely within the next three months. It is tragic not to have friends and as a man grows older he will find the world a kindlier place than he had thought...
...young lady be "enclosed by her background," and what is a "perennial" sermon? The warning against believing all we read in newspapers, "The Tyranny of the Press," is timely. "From Clatsop to Nekarney" is a vivid and interesting description of a long walk on the coast of Oregon. The tragic story of the young musician Roderigo is well told in "The Church of Santa Rosa," and there is a laudatory analysis of Sheldon's play "Salvation Nell...