Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There flowers, the brightest, bloom and fade...
...Beam the brightest eyes...
...noticeable among men who hold a prominent position, both in the class and in the Faculty, an attempt to chill all ardor on this subject, with the hope that, being an unnecessary if not childish practice, unworthy of the consideration of men of mature judgment, Class Day, once the brightest day in the student's calendar, will eventually...
...most beautiful and pathetic elegies in Oriental literature. Why did not Mr. Emerson expatiate on those three bright stars of the literary firmament, and why did he pass over with so little notice Omar Khayyam? Simply because, instead of dwelling on the lesser luminaries, he chose the sun, the brightest of them all, Hafiz. It was not his purpose in this simple essay to give us a complete compendium of Persian literature, embracing all the poets of any note, as Mr. Ticknor has done for Spanish literature. Had Mr. Ticknor, in an essay of this limit, omitted an obscure poet...
...hearing him argue hotly for ten minutes than by a week's casual acquaintance. Social life at college, whether it be spent in conversation, card-playing, or other amusement, we cannot afford wholly to neglect; our years here are incomplete without some seasoning of this kind. Some of the brightest scenes in our retrospect of these years will be those in which we recall three or four companions seated with us by the open windows in summer evenings, or around the fire in winter, talking desultorily of present pleasures and half-formed plans...