Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Perhaps less interesting even than the battles of editors is their love-making. Just as every paper has its bitter foes, so, too, every paper has its dear friends. With the former all is bad; with the latter all is good. Here is a paper that is "little, but oh my!" and here one that is "decidedly fresh," and here a third that "is a credit to the institution which it represents. Such a paper cannot fail to arouse an interest outside its own peculiar sphere. We hope to see you often...
...much spirit shown, but the players seemed to realize that they were not brutes but men. We were likewise much pleased at the very fair and impartial accounts of the game, written by representative Yale and Princeton men, which appeared in the Sunday Globe. When we recall the bitter feeling which was manifested on both sides after the game last Thanksgiving, and the wrangling which was carried on in the papers of the two colleges throughout the year, we cannot but think that a new era of good feeling and of honest, wholesome rivalry has dauned...
...gain more by being seen than such a play as King Lear. Who has ever realized, without the aid of the senses, all the horror and pathos of such a scene as that in which Lear speaks with Edgar and the fool? The majestic madness of the King, the bitter jests and incoherent ditties of the fool, the hideous gibberish of Edgar, each in its peculiar tone telling a story of great and unmerited woe,- what a marvelous harmony of discords! When we have seen this play, we do not, it is true, carry away a single definite impression...
...soul." The idea of Boswell torn by an Othello-like passion is certainly a striking one. The next day he popped the question, "after sqeezing and kissing her fine hand, while she looked at me with those beautiful black eyes," but, alas, he was refused. His disappointment was very bitter, and in the tumult of his soul, he wrote the following song to his mistress...
...letters grow less and less frequent after his marriage, and he seems to settle down with only an occasional bit of love-making. So his life drifts along until his wife dies. Then he is plunged into bitter grief-a grief so honest that we are forced to respect it, for grief, somehow, throws a mantle of dignity around even a fool. Yet his sorrows are much aggravated by various causes-among others a natural fear taking root in his mind that perhaps he would be condemned to Hell on his death. He speaks of "the want of absolute certainly...