Word: whose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Whose silver tinge soon slowly pales to white...
...mortifying fact, but one whose truth can hardly be questioned, that, as a rule, college students have remarkably poor memories. Let any upper-class man try to recall some of the studies of his preparatory course, or even of his Freshman year, which have not been brought into requisition by his subsequent work; let him question a majority of his classmates on the same points, and any doubts he may have as to forget-fulness among students will, I think, be removed. The fact is brought before us in a peculiarly vivid manner, with which we are all more...
...most of our eminent lawyers are noted for their powers of recollection. The desirability of this faculty is, indeed, so evident, that it hardly requires illustration from the cases of physicians, preachers, and literary men. I cannot forbear, however, a passing allusion to the case of Sir Walter Scott, whose wonderful and almost unbounded memory, more than any other quality, was the foundation of his fame and success as an historical novelist...
Blush in those cheeks, whose roses have fled...
...relation of Rembrandt to Durer may be compared to that of Euripides to Sophocles. Euripides does not scruple to put a fine maxim into the mouth of any character whose surroundings suggest it to him, even if it is out of keeping, while Sophocles sacrifices everything to making each character in his plays a whole, refusing to be misled by his own passing thoughts...