Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Department acknowledges obligation to M. Marcel Desbones, Theatre des Arts, Bordeaux, and to Miss Annie Payson Vall of Boston for their gracious assistance in the preparation of the play...
...long absence, to imagine his thoughts and emotions as he confronted the old familiar places. I wish to point out in a few words how he was received by his own people. St. Luke tells us that at first they were charmed and touched, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?" But when he began to disclose his message to them, their prejudices were aroused. They looked on him with distrust and aversion...
...woman is gracious, who does more than mere duty demands, who is appreciative and lovingly enters into the life of each one whom he or she meets. We are more apt to notice this trait in the child with its subtle charm and winsome ways, "the gracious boy who doth adorn the world into which he is born." Grace is the fairest, the rarest gift of life. We are often content if we are told that we are doing our duty but what would a home be when all did their duty and nothing more, it would be decorus, severe...
...tendency was to make life synchronus. Humanity is the same all down the ages, and it is a gracious and likeable humanity, which he presents to us. His sympathies are always with the subjects. In Titus Andronicus alone, are we introduced to a state which is rotten, and, be it remarked, there is great doubt concerning the authorship of that play. Shakespeare is much more moral than his contemporaries, and always, there is a tendency towards something better...
...Pope and Italy" is Gail Hamilton's contribution. She starts out with the assertion that two sovereigns contend upon her soil for dominion, although the poor Pope's contention can now scarcely be called by that name. King Humbert she calls "gracious," the Pope "beautiful...