Word: classical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...picture of the quiet and peace of the ocean scene is a delicate piece of painting that strikes one strongly with its deep tinges of classic spirit, and makes one think of Homer. In truth, there is throughout this poem a healthiness of sentiment and grace of form that bring into only too unpleasant relief the affectation and crudity of some of the others...
They went to cast the classic...
ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT AND FACULTY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GREETING: Gentlemen - There has been great changes in the Hebrew and Greek writers of Antiquity, by the Hebrew and Greek writers of this Modern Age of literature and science. My great experience in the classic Shades of Learning, forces me to challenge the educated world to prove any Heaven without life, reason, logic, order, harmony, genuine faith, belief in harmony with the organic and natural laws which govern, regulate and harmonize mankind in the present tense, heaven possessed in the human mind. The value of all objects and subjects depend...
...will be curious to see what effect her travels will have had upon her talent and her golden voice, and whether, as the foreign critics say, she has become Americanized in her style of acting, or her London marriage with M. Damala, a Greek, has made her more classic...
...suppose the psychological explanation of all this is in the name Benjamin Emilius Butterfield. Butterfield had an unmistakable tang of "store" about it which I could not eliminate. "Emilius" bespoke an acquaintance, limited perhaps, with classic literature, and also carried with it, to my mind, a pair of spectacles...