Word: demi
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meetings of the gods and demi-gods are held every Monday evening. (The thunderbolts forged on this occasion are hurled on Tuesday afternoon following...
...soft demi-jour sits our fair Danae...
...French Dramatic Company is to give eight evening representations and four matinees, at Beethoven Hall, commencing April 18. Subscription price for the course, $15. Subscription-list open at Schoenhof and Moeller's, 40 Winter Street, until April 15. The plays will chosen be from the following list: Le Demi-Monde, Les Pattes de Mouche, Les Crochets du pere Martin, Les Domestiques, Monsieur Alphonse, Les Femmes Terriribles, Le Testament de Cesar Girodot, La Petite Marquise, Le Sphinx, Le Marquis de Villemer, Quete a Domicile, Les Deux Sourds, Les Brebis de Parnurge...
What is Shakespeare - the copyist of the minutest details of human experience - to me when I can revel in the imaginary haps and mishaps of gods and demi-gods? What the conciseness of Pope, the grandeur of Milton, the exquisite finish of Tennyson, the beauties and excellences of all modern genius, when I can find the semblance of these qualities in a language of two thousand years...