Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...governor and an eminent lecturer, and enjoying the society of three deans, two professors, and an authoress, - when such a university feels a just pride in its advantages, and mentions them frequently in its journal, the malignant rival whose "disgusting jealousy" takes the form of "puerile gush" well deserves to be pelted with abuse, and then informed that "a man will not progress rapidly on a journey if he stops to throw stones at every cur that barks...
Amateur Latin verse is all very well, if the quantities and forms are all right, and the constructions classical. But if the lines will not scan, it is of no account that they can be rattled over so as to read something like Virgil or Ovid...
...lines also are correct, metrically; but esuries is a terribly rare and unpoetical word. In line second, opibus has the o short, so it cannot begin a hexameter. In line third, the perfect of fundo is not fusi, and the line is very jerky. Risit would have scanned as well, and suited the other tenses better. In line sixth, coronae cannot begin a hexameter, nor comam end one; moreover, cutting off a diphthong between the two short syllables of a dactyl is very unclassical. Of line seventh we can make nothing at all. The quantities...
...prize essays are well enough, since they stimulate literary activity without involving cramming; but why examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary...
...were unusually few, and, except the decapitation of a war-steed, at which critical moment the presence of mind of Sir Guy saved the day, no serious casualty occurred. Mr. Urquhart made a very pretty girl, and Mr. Wright an imposing queen. Darnley's part was played gracefully and well, and that of the rollicking King of the French admirably taken; and in fact, all did so well that to particularize would be unjust. The airs were a little old; but, altogether, Seventy-nine may congratulate themselves on having successfully presented a bright and amusing play before an audience even...