Word: victors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...papers, from the "Atlantic Monthly" to "Tid Bits", but to almost every litterateur, his aim is to write something acceptable for the moment; to grapple earnestly with literature never occurs to him. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character of the Biography of Y", or "The Affair of No. 13 Rue Ghenna" - he should exercise his powers upon subjects less seductive, and harder...
...week has ceased to be felt. The crews rowed a very close and exciting race and surprised even the best informed by the order in which they pulled across the finish. We wish to congratulate '87 on her well-earned success, as by winning this race she placed the victor's wreath on her head which will be remembered long after the members of the present seniors are scattered in the four corners of the world...
...religious rites of certain ceremonial, but from 530 B.C., they assumed a distinct national character. The Olympic games were a plan of unity for the whole race; Greece laid aside all internal feuds to join in participation of them. In the 52nd Dynasty the statue of a victor was first fashioned in wood. This was very rough, but when the ice was once broken, statues of athletes became immensely popular with all the artists. In fact, there is scarcely a vase to be found without an athlete portrayed upon it, even though its principal theme is a mythical representation...
...only Montesquieu, Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau, who, by the way, led the revolution, but also the German writers, Lessing. Schiller, Goethe. The latter, I may add, like the later English writers, seems to have drawn much inspiration from that same overthrow - after saying all this, proceeds to evolve Victor Hugo and Theophile Gautier from the paltry revolution of 1830, and from these all the other French writers from Zola to Daudet, the American realist and Tolstoi, which latter, after a pun on the word art, he proceeds to magnify at the expense of Daudet and Zola and Miss Austen...
BOSTON THEATRE. Matinee - "Victor." Evening - Second Act of "Fra Diavolo;" Third Act of "Martha;" Third Act of "Victor...