Word: essays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After a series of brilliant engagements in Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington and Brooklyn, DeWolf Hopper and his excellent company, will begin his annual Boston engagement at the Tremont next week, presenting, for the first time in this city, the funniest of all comic operas - "Dr. Syntax." DeWolf Hopper will essay the role of a good-natured, up-to-date pedagogue. The locale of this, the latest and greatest of the comedian's light comic operatic successes, is laid in a charming country village in New England. The jovial "Dr. Syntax" esteems it his duty to make everybody happy, and, luckily...
...world. First, he is a poet, though to many persons he means little in this character. In his verse he cares only to sing of the beautiful things of tragedy and pathos, without trying to teach; while in his prose he is ever intent upon teaching. In his essays his great aim is to reform the Philistine. Another guise in which Matthew Arnold appears to us is as the gentle critic of pure literature; the reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character he wrote his essay on Keats, which gives...
...John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University (Essay on Christianity and Letters) from "In the country which has been" through "the best guarantees for intellectual progress," to be translated into Latin...
...McCosh was born near the country village of Patnad, in Airshire, Scotland, April 11, 1811. He attended the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and by an essay on Stoic Philosophy he was awarded, upon the recommendation of Sir William Hamilton, the degree...
...Macaulay's condemnation of Montesquieu in his essay on Macchiavelli justifiable...