Word: delight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Then again, as a representative form of amusement in which the Romans took great delight, and which was associated with their great religious festivals, the play is worth attention. A play was originally a rite, a fact which accounts for the extremely conventional character and frequent unreality of the earliest Greek drama. Our modern dramatic realism is a thing of very late development and, though a Roman play was in one sense far from being religious, it retained many traces of its ancient origin. The religion of the Greeks and Romans was almost entirely free from introspection, self-abasement...
...inherited, so they cannot be alienated. "Books," says Wordsworth, "are a real world," and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims rather to produce delight than conviction, or, if conviction, then through intuition rather than formal logic, and, leaving what Donne wisely calls...
...Irving could have had no more happy introduction yesterday afternoon than the few appropriate words of Dean Briggs: "A friend who has given delight the world over has come again to our corner of the world to show a generous courtesy to Harvard University. We welcome Mr. Irving...
...cannot tell anything about the best modern stories. It is just such classes as this one of Professor Thayer's and such courses as Semitic 12, under Professor Lyon, that are going to popularize the reading and the study of the Bible and make them a delight where once they were a burden...
...Winkle." Praise for the player or commendation for the play would be supererogotory, for the first is so universally esteemed and the last so generally admired, that no words can add to the deserved popularity of either. For a generation "Rip Van Winkle" has been a perfect delight to theatre-goers of America, and to have seen Jefferson in the great role which he created will be a pleasant remembrance for all time. The present opportunities are limited to one weeksix nights and two matinees-and the sale of seats for the eight performances will begin next Monday morning...