Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...always preferring to make miniature engravings rather than larger ones. It is very amusing to pass from Durer's Melencolia to J. Behau's attempt at the same. After standing in awe before the sad glance of Durer's figure with its resting wings, that still have power to bear it through endless wandering, with the neglected implements of human science cast on the earth, and with its never-to-be-forgotten wreath, - after the feelings aroused by Durer we turn to the Little Master, and truly see what a "well-intentioned" artist he is. He gives us, reduced...
...friends on whom young men are so dependent. May the breaking of other ties not serve to lessen, but rather to strengthen, those which bind them to their Alma Mater and their college friends, and may they find here the true sympathy of friendship to enable them to bear bravely their great trial...
...Amherst Student complains of the excellent reputation as "models of morality" which Amherst students bear, on the ground that it is undeserved by them and only the inevitable result of their Faculty's severity. We admire modesty, and assure Amherst that we feel...
...believe our UNIVERSITY one of the first in the land, and believe that facts will bear us out. - University Echo. Carry...
...that all poets are able to command language to such an extent that, in transferring their thoughts into the Procrustes bed of a particular metre, no feet are stretched and no thoughts mutilated, take up at random any collection of poems, and how many are there that seem to bear a trace of the influence of the true spirit of Poesy? How many give us glimpses of that faint and fair celestial mirage which attends her coming, seldom seen by mortal eyes, never to be summoned at will, - as it were, the scenes and longings of life mirrored...