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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poetic feeling for nature, which finds such varied expression in English literature, is equally apparent in this modest English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Original Drawings at the Fogg Museum. | 12/9/1899 | See Source »

...visit to Italy in 1812 when he met Gragiella, and by his visit to Aix where he came into relations with the original of his Elvire. As for his own personal nature, he is essentially an optimist. In this way he was able to give their true poetic value to those sentiments which are the very substance of lyric poetry. Love he considers an eternal sentiment; death the dawn of a glorious immortality. In nature he sees a comforter of man. His religious sentiment is a belief in the existence of the Creator in every created thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Doumic's Second Lecture. | 3/4/1898 | See Source »

Professor A. C. Van Daell of M. I. T., delivered a lecture on Guy de Maupassant last night before a full meeting of the Cercle Francais. The lecturer read selections from the prose and the poetic works of De Maupassant, and compared him with Flaubert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cercle Francais Meeting. | 2/17/1898 | See Source »

...history of the Jews, and the present is the most fitting time for new members to join the class, and for any any old members whom examinations have kept away recently to renew their study. After the prophetic books are finished, portions of the law, and the poetic books-the most interesting part of the year's work-will be taken up. The class meets each Sunday at 12 o'clock in the "Students' Trancept," Shepard Memorial Church, corner of Mason and Garden streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 2/12/1898 | See Source »

...nineteenth century, however, we find three, Andre Chenier, Alfred De Musset and Victor Hugo, the greatest of all French lyrical poets. Professor Harper thinks that, with the exception of Leconte de Lisle and Jose Maria de Heredia, none of the modern French poets are satisfactory or essentially poetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Harper's Lecture. | 12/16/1897 | See Source »

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