Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...trying to grasp a branch, and grasping...
Life is a grasp at ecstasy...
...which he has gone. The literary and scholastic training that resulted in such superb scholarship was, after all, but the scaffold by the help of which he was to lay the walls of a brilliant and successful life. It had developed his mind, strengthened his intellect, given capacity and grasp and method and direction to his mental action. Does all this give a pledge for usefulness in this world only? Does it offer no prophecy of extended usefulness in the world to come? Is there not a significance in the terms of the reward granted to great faithfulness, - "I will...
...where I'd be next stole over me. My trusty steed showed violent symptoms of St. Vitus's Dance. The floor began to heave and billow about. The pillars and railing played at kaleidoscope. My vision grew dim. I clutched the handles till they grew thin under my grasp. I threw my whole soul into that one moment. It was too much for the machine. It veered both ways at the same time, then concluded to retreat, which it did with remarkable celerity. But I had made all my arrangements for going ahead, and found it difficult to change...
...despite Mr. Algernon Charles Billingsgate Bilgewater Swinburne, we still insist that the Society has earned for itself the gratitude, not the abuse, of all Shaksperian students whose opinions are worth any thing at all. We fear that our cotemporary has failed in the present instance to display "that firm grasp of the subject in hand, and that broad but minute knowledge of the grounds of discussion which generally characterize" its editorial articles. We shall hardly consider it worth while longer to occupy our columns with this futile dispute...