Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...history is "The Princess Anne" by M. O. W. Oliphant. It is filled with engravings of portraits of many notable persons of her time. Josephine Lazarus has given us a sympathetic sketch of "Margaret Fuller" outlining the chief events of her life, closing with a graphic description of her tragic death and an analysis of her character. A pretty little dialect poem is "I's Never Feared for my Ould Man." "Benefits Forgot" is continued. "The Heart of the Tale" is a melodious bit of poetry showing thoughtfullness and feeling. There are a few other short poems...
...another Beau Brummel and talks of shopkeepers 'who ought to feel proud of his patronage. The good valet who pays his master's debts out of his savings, and the goodness of his heart, him we have met before. And the sketch is not improved by its tame tragic ending...
Louis F. BerryPedagogus Papyrus, tutor to prince, whose agreeable philosophy of fiction the best policy meets with a tragic refutation...
...moral tendency is not really settled. The second period is from 1597-1603, marking the Jacques-Hamlet mood. The melancholy Jacques is a preparation for Hamlet. During this period, most of the sonnets were composed. Dur-the years 1603-1609, Shakespeare has returned to Stratford. This is his tragic period, and is distinguished by the composition of Julius Caesar, Measure For Measure, Macbeth, Othello, Troilus and Cressida and Anthony and Cleopatra. The fourth period is the Coriolanus-Timon of Athens mood, and the tendency is aristocratic and misanthropic. The last period is that of the Cymbeline-Tempest-Winter's Tale...
...Prize that Teddy Won" could not fairly be called tragic had it been less skill fully worked out. But one is brought into such sympathy with the hopes and ambitions of the skipper, that one almost wishes he had not cut the sheet...