Word: forgottenness
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...deny that the "Oedipus" was the much more interesting production. The "Acharnians" lacks that strong human interest which a tragic story has in every age. Personal invective (like the attacks on Lamachus) must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give the spectators that sense of being transported into another world which the "Oedipus" gave. In a word, the illusion was lacking. Perhaps this was in some measure due to the place where the play...
...assured, my friends, that this day and its privilegas, so full of improvement, and the enjoyments of this hour so full of pleasure, will never be forgotten. And in parting from you now, let me express the earnest wish that Harvard alumni may always honor the venerable institution which has honored them, and that no man who forgets or neglects his duty, as a citizen, and to American citizenship, shall ever find his Alma Mater here. [Loud Applause...
...feeling of brotherhood and cordiality rule supreme throughout the Harvard domain. Hearty hand-shaking on every side, memories that have slept during many years of work and thought, will be brought once more vividly before the minds of Harvard's some-time students. Well known faces forgotten for a generation, will recall some happy incident of the former days. Who can doubt but that these meetings, these reminiscences will call forth such a burst of free, boyish sympathy, vivacity and emotion, as has never been seen before in Cambridge? Add to this the pathos of those memories and in truth...
...great it is. Around all life which ever has been lived there has been found forever the life of the loving Deity and the ideal humanity. All partial excellence, all learning, all brotherhood, all hope, has been bosomed on this changeless, this unchanging being, which has stretched from the forgotten beginning to the end. It is because God has been always good; because man has been always the son of God, capable in the very substance of his nation of likeness to and union with his father; it is because of this that nobleness has never died, that truth...
...oral shields call Walter Scott vividly to mind. A group of little children, clad in white, and with wreaths of flowers on their heads, go by singing a hymn written for the occasion. But Ruprecht I is a staunch Catholic, and the representatives of the church must not be forgotten. Here come pale nuns from the convent on the Heiligenberg and stern-faced monks, with sandalled feet and rough, rope-girt robes and dark cowls; and in the midst of them rides a gorgeous Cardinal, the papal legate sent in honor of the occasion. The Prince and his spouse, Princess...