Word: often
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...reading college papers it often strikes us that some of the authors who supply the columns with poetry would succeed much better if they confined their efforts to writing prose. If they are gifted with some poetic feeling and a talent for versification, these abilities are sure to appear in writing prose, both in improving the style and in supplying the article with ideas which make it interesting in itself, without regard to the subject discussed. Too many having such talents imagine themselves to be gifted with "the vision and the faculty divine," to be moved by the same muse...
...probable that we have had a representative color much longer than since 1859; and as the sanguinary magenta has come into existence since that date, it is reasonable to suppose that our former color was, what is now often attributed to us, crimson. On the respective merits of crimson and magenta we may not enlarge now; for how could our paper, named to represent our distinctive outward manifestation, designate itself by the uneuphonious name of "The Crimson"! It would be infinitely worse than "The Dark Blue." So, as the point is settled that the color is to be Magenta...
...displeased by it, however, has but to look for consolation into the valley over which Fortune is floating. This is indeed fairy-land. The town reminds you of Durer's times, but the landscape awakens pleasure within you which you yourself are conscious that you have often been on the point of feeling at the sight of such smiling landscapes in reality. But at the same time you are fully aware that your pleasure was never quite this; there was always in your experience something that interfered, and which alone an artist's mind can detect and retain. This valley...
...roof of lives so different as the careless school-boy's, with all the world before him, and the pensioner's in his black gown, with his work all done and only waiting for his dismissal. That most beautiful passage at the end of the Newcomes has been so often quoted that I will not give it here, but only repeat one word, which must bring back that closing scene to any one who has ever read it - a word the old arches have so often echoed to generation after generation of school-boys in the old cloisters, - "Adsum...
...reconciling thought and metre which is perfectly marvellous. How is it done? And again, can it ever be done without sacrificing something of the thought or something of the metre? As to the latter, in the best works of our great poets, there occur such words as "under," "often," etc., in iambic metre where the accent is required on the last syllable, and "by the," "in the" &c, where only one short syllable is required. Now, if so much is sacrificed of the metre, the heavy material body of poetry, how much must be sacrificed of the ethereal soul...