Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent criticism of Salvini's "Lear" says : "Despite the classic elegance of Salvini's acting and the perfect pathos of his whole representation of the tottering, grand old king, dozens of people came away feeling no more kinship with the woes of "Lear" than they would with some fate-driven hero of Greek drama. In fact, many admitted this parallel, and spoke of feeling something akin to the remote admiration that they felt for the OEdipus of Mr. Riddle when first presented to them at Cambridge, a few seasons...
...world to him is one great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead roots, and the hidden beauties of a language three thousand years nearer Adam than your own. In a word, in whatever phase this specimen may appear, he is riding a hobby-horse. The disagreeable part...