Word: passion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Modern Language Conference. The Influence of the 18th Century Passion Oratorio upon Klopstock's Messias. Professor Francke. Sever...
...other piece of fiction, but at least showing clever character painting and a rather pleasing style. The hero of the story indulges in vices for the sake of the experience to be gained from them; and from fancying himself safe in his own virtue, finally yields utterly to his passion for gambling. His fall, and the weakness of character which led to it, are very well suggested in the story...
...close of his life was full of misfortunes to which the course of political events added many. He died a worn out man at fifty-six. In considering him as a man, full of craftiness and intrigue, with the love of fame as his superior passion, we must keep in mind his terrible physical deformities, which made his whole life one of pain, as well as the character of the age in which he lived...
...article on "Cross Country Running" by John Corbin. It is cleverly written and is decidedly above the average of the other articles of the number. The poetry is no credit to the authors, "A Hint to Ye Goode Sainte Valentine" is weak in sentiment, metre, and spelling, while "Elemental Passion" is only passable...
...time of Elizabeth, when the passion for the drama was very marked that the Scotchman Ben Jonson came forward. After his father's death his mother married again. This stepfather sent Jonson to Westminster school, where he studied to great advantage. Rumor says that he afterward went to Cambridge, and was expelled, but the fact remains that when he should have been studying he was off to the army. In 1597 he returned to London, but he always retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life...