Word: heroical
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...drama is written in heroic verse, and is free in the best modern sense. Its doctrine is that of Spinoza and its thought is deeply philosophical and mystical. The action of the play is comprehended in three periods: Before the Incarnation; during and after the Crucifixion; and on the Judgment Day before dawn. Its story is mainly one of supernatural beings: Raphael's journey to earth is described, and also the effect of the Crucifixion on the Heavenly Hosts. The description of the celestial beings is very even and novel, while in form it is beautifully musical...
...following Harvard men will give lectures in the Fifth Annual Series of Conferences, which are being held this winter by the Comparative Literature Society at the Carnegie Lyceum, New York: February 3, "The Kalevala," by Professor G. L. Kittredge, illustrating the Finnish Epic; February 17, "Epic Poems of the Heroic Age of India," and March 3, "Stories of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana," by Professor Charles R. Lanman, illustrating the Sanskrit Epic; March 17, "The Origin of the French Popular Epics of the Middle Ages," by Professor A. R. Marsh, illustrating the Mediaeval French Epic; and April 14, a paper...
...fist lesson of their lives is that the young citizen should take no counsel of his feas in attacking an evil to the state; another is that the remedy of war, though heroic, is sometimes costly almost beyond utility, and is justified only by the certainty of failure of all other means...
...palace at Mycenae and Tiryns, in Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, and also in Egyptian buildings. By the aid of numerous photographs, the lecturer showed further that the forms of the columns and the entablature were derived from earlier wooden forms in use in the palaces of the heroic age. The well-known column between the two lions in the Lion's Gate differs but slightly from the earliest extant Doric columns; and in fact quite recently a column with flutings has actually been discovered in one of the ancient beehive tombs in Mycenae...
...closing, Professor Dorpfeld called attention to the remarkable correspondence between what we know Tiryns and Mycenae to have been and Homer's description of the palaces of heroic times, and confirmed the truth of the comparison by certain conspicuous and convincing examples. This fact is of importance in determining the date of the Homeric poems. They belong to the same age with Tiryns and Mycenae, and are not the creation of a poet's fancy, but trustworthy descriptions of the life and art of the Heroic...