Search Details

Word: warmness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...both stories the light coquetry and vanity of a pretty young girl brings on the death of her lover. This motive, always a fascinating one, is as well brought out in the hills up here in our bleak New England during the Revolution as it was in the warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this, and tells a world of woe in a very few words. "Around Judith," an account in the happiest vein of the recent Harvard trip down to New York on board the Fall River boat, cannot fail to amuse every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Advocate." | 11/30/1887 | See Source »

...lively sketch, and gives signs of quite a good deal of study of human nature. Particularly good is the description of the way in which a man's thoughts "begin to revolve around themselves" in a ride to Boston. "In June" is very melodious and sounds like two rich warm opening chords to a pastorate symphony. One regrets the absence of the pastorate symphony. "Ma Contemporaine," a translation from Beranger, is not well done. It lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 11/16/1887 | See Source »

...those who are instrumentally inclined, whether they play the Bassoon or the Kazoo or both, they should present themselves before the august committee of the Venerable Pierian Sodality, and if perchance a man proves himself able to play even a little bit he can rest assured of a warm instrumental reception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/4/1887 | See Source »

...evening the warm air permitted both the Harvard crews to sit out before their quarters, and so the night passed with banjo music and conversation and sleep. In the morning first came the plunge into the river and then breakfast. Sunday being a day not intended for rowing, portions of both crews walked some two miles over to Gale's Ferry to a quaint old New England meeting house, and heard a good old New England Methodist sermon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crews at New London. | 6/21/1887 | See Source »

...whole nine showed snap and cool calculation at the right moments. Such a victory as we gained yesterday recalls our career on the diamond two years ago and makes us look to the final result of the series with more assurance. Every man in the nine should receive warm applause of the whole college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/9/1887 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next