Word: mountainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When chanting your vespers o'er mountain and stream...
...mountain labored and brought forth a mouse; in other words, the wisdom of the College has again discussed compulsory chapel, and has abated chapel services for Sunday mornings. There can be no doubt now that the College has found its felo de se. Whither has the religious zeal of our Puritan ancestors fled? No more shivering through early prayers on Sunday morning! The next step downward will be some such villanous scheme as the ventilation of the recitation-rooms. But why should that religious service which is necessary six mornings in the week be found superfluous on the seventh? Truly...
...mountain there...
...last spring - as illustrating the truth of what Mr. Ruskin says of Salvator's morose fierceness of temper, nourished in the wild, melancholy Calabrian hills, and failing to see in them anything that was not gross and terrible. No. 26, the city on the hill with snow-capped mountains rising over it, serves indeed as the recorded defect of mediaeval landscape; but it is vain to seek for any expression of refined perception, on the part of the painter, or of either beauty or character in the rendering of mountain, cloud, or tree. The great cartoon of Kaulbach, almost impressive...
...mountain rises, with one mighty leap...