Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very fair and accurate statement of the position of that author in our literature. Mr. Lovett happily avoided the wholesale commendation which is so common a fault in all forms of biography, and justly deprecated many of the errors of Hume's Philosophy, while admitting the purity and worth of his private character...
What she said I do not remember. Perhaps this whole dialogue does not seem worth remembering. I only know that when I came to talk of the separation about to come, I thought that she grew very sober; I thought I almost saw tears in her eyes. Never mind what I saw. I drew her trembling form closer to mine; and then I knew that we two must not part for ever...
...Furnivall's attack upon Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps was unjust as the Advocate's own attack upon the Society; granted that Mr. Aldis Wright, whose ability we are not disposed to question, considers Mr. Hudson (whom we certainly did not confound with Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps) a critic whose opinion is worth hearing (a marvellous circumstance, surely, since the latter confines himself almost entirely to the "sign-post criticism" which the former deprecates); granted that Professor Child has on one or two occasions found it necessary to disagree with some of his fellow Shaksperians, - what have all these specious accusations...
...selections, and did not suspect that it was written by a student. In a more serious vein is a piece called "Forebodings;" it is full of fine feeling, and called forth an answer from one of the professors. "The Old Professor" is a pathetic poem, and is well worth reading. "The Bells of Venice" is a fine piece. I will quote the last stanza...
...society; nor will they take any care to keep up the original standard of what was a society of learning, and so they destroy all its usefulness. No society perhaps has gone as far as this; but some are sufficiently well on the way to it to make it worth while for reform. If all such societies would take the measures here advocated, and adopt some stringent rule restricting the membership to those who are really very much interested in the pursuit of the special branch for which the society is formed, there would no doubt be much greater activity...