Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This wonderful spectacle is nowhere seen to more advantage than in King Lear. For here we have a central figure too great and awe-inspiring to be lost in the confusion of the scene. Lear's voice, whether in rage, madness or contrition, is so powerful that all the whisperings and wranglings around him seem but its tumultuous echoes. The accompaniment of incidental action does not drown the voice of his supreme passion; and thus is avoided that fault which appears in some of Shakspere's historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that...
...relate, his suit did not prosper, and after a few days he again writes to his friend, wondering whether the lady is "coy and reserved" in order to make him more in love, or whether she is offended at the "Spanish stateliness" of his demeanor. He becomes greatly moved over his wretchedness. However, one cannot help doubting the real strength of such affection, when the last paragraph of the letter is reached. He concludes a passionate profession of love for Miss Blair, and then adds: "A letter from my signora at Siena, written with all the warmth of Italian affection...
...find again: "I got into the fly at Buckden, and had a very good journey. An agreeable young widow nursed me, and supported my lame foot on her knee. Am I not fortunate in having something about me that interests most people at first sight in my favor?" But whether this "something" was the lame foot or not, he leaves to our conjectures...
Class lives have always been a bugbear to busy seniors, but somehow or other this year there seems to have been less difficulty in writing them experienced by the present seniors than by their predecessors. Whether it is a proper pride in doing class work or the energy of the genial class secretary which has effected this, we do not know, but certain it is that a large proportion of the lives, very much larger than usual, have already been written and handed in. Some are still not done, and as the secretary wishes to have a complete...
...expenses of the Yale crew, according to the News, were $7,000. Whether this amount includes the debt of the year before, or not, is not known...