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...appreciate Dante", he continued, "we must remember how many things to us old and matter-of-course were to him, a Florentine of 1265-1321, new, fresh, and full of zest...
...Lambert's Armand was sincere and moving. His earlier love scenes and his scene of denunciation were skilfully handied. But half the impassioned zest of this redeeming love affair was lost by the middle-aged reasoned and seasoned appearance of the players. The Georges Duval of M. Ravet was rather colorless and disappointing...
Since every generation has declared its Hamlet the best, are we to be left behind? Of course not! We bring out the old phrases used by our ancestors and invert the predicates, arranging the whole with a clever and unequalled style, so as to give zest and originality to our praise. But we have more than one Hamlet; therefore we shall have something to argue about after disposing of the Hamlets of history...
...Government, so the report runs, was on the verge of driving men to work at the point of the bayonet, for the skilled workmen are slipping back to the land, where they can find a living, at any rate. Lenin has intervened, enjoining them to work, not for the zest of it, but for the triumph of their Soviet system. "Grin and bear it" is the suggested refrain of his hopeless hymn, which anticipates the coming of the night when there will be no more work because there will be no money to pay the workers. "They cannot live without...
...finds in daily life. The successful cross-examination of a witness, the sudden and surprising turn which a case may take, the quick retort, the eloquent argument,--all these are interesting as they occur from day to day, the victories when they come, the unmerited defeats, lend a constant zest to life and are pleasant to remember, for even of defeats the lawyer finds the prophecy true "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit...