Word: fearless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lessing was perhaps the greatest critic that ever lived. His superiority was demonstrated in his judgment of Shakespeare, whom he understood far better than his English contemporary, Johnson. His literary reviews were fearless, and even his personal friends were not spared. He freed the German drama from its slavery to the French school, and showed how the French drama failed to conform not only to the German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion...
...current number of the Advocate appeared yesterday afternoon. With this issue the '89 board of editors resigns the management to the incoming '90 board, Under the charge of '89 the Advocate has had a well-defined and representative position among the university publications. Editorially it has been as fearless as firm in its treatment of college evils, and in all matters of general college interest the stand it has taken has been a most commendable one; in a literary way it has fully maintained the high standard which the Advocate has held in recent years. Mr. G. P. Wardner...
...Long before the resistance to the Stamp Act, before the fearless voice of Patrick Henry rang out, before Faneuil Hall had thrown open its doors to an eloquent patriotism, a graduate of Harvard in his Commencement Thesis 'announced the whole doctrine of the Revolution' in words that sounded like a tocsin through the land," said Mr. Hamilton in the undergraduate oration, "There is no break in such a history as ours," insisted the Rev. Phillips Brooks...
...most popular and most widely circulated paper in NEW ENGLAND. Its columns are eagerly perused by thousands of readers; and its circulation is constantly increasing. It is one of the feature of New England, bright, fearless and independent, and is sold everywhere; as an advertising medium the HERALD is second to none, and advertisers will attain their object more speedily and more efficiently in its columns than in those of any other Boston paper...
...most popular and most widely circulated paper in NEW ENGLAND. Its columns are eagerly perused by thousands of readers; and its circulation is constantly increasing. It is one of the features of New England, bright, fearless and independent, and is sold everywhere; as an advertising medium the HERALD is second to none, and advertisers will attain their object more speedily and more efficiently in its columns than in those of any other Boston paper...