Word: vivida
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...type characters dependent for effect on strong contrast, the brandy bottle, unnatural and strained diction, and false sentiment, de- fects present in diminishing quantity even in Robertson, as anyone who has seen 'Caste" knows. Prof. Watson never sneers at the audiences which found such plays reasonably satisfactory, provided that vivida vis were present; quite surprisingly he holds a brief for popular taste and decides that though "an English audience must be forcibly amused," it is useless to blame public taste, which would have appreciated a vital drama, had there been any. "The trend of theatrical vitality is, in the main...
...bestias opporimere feras, Indos barbaros plane superare et dominari, sed mentes hominum, puerorum praecipue, ad res divinas et optimas instituere. Intellexit quoque homines plurimum valere, si mentibus comprehendissent tum quam sapiens et amabilis esset ipse Deus, tum quam pulchro ordine haec rerum natura ab ipso esset creata. Animorum vi vivida sapientes posse, ordine divino intellecto, terram Americanam imperio suo possidere...
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