Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The second day of the Newell crews on the river was marked by a considerable increase in the number of candidates. One more eight, a four, and several pairoars were out, and in most of the boats substitutes were tried. The water was perfectly smooth and consequently the crews worked...
Mallarme was conspicuous for his love of music, which he called a "sacred pleasure," and he never missed the Sunday concerts conducted by Lamourdux. His charming conversation was another prominent characteristic and for fifteen years he received at his house on Tuesday evenings all the best poets of our time...
His life was a simple, quiet and meditative one. He re-edited and made known in France Beckford's Vatheck and Translated the poems of Poe. He was professor of English first at Avignon and then at Paris almost until his sudden death in 1898.
The new and singular boldness, of his work was not understood by all was qualified as strange and extravagant, but his poems have triumphed over the attacks upon them. If everyone does not consider them as masterpieces, they are at least conceded to have been written by one of the...
Mallarme is obscure but he is not the only writer who possesses this defect and he is incomprehensible only to those who will not take the trouble to read him. The obscurity of his works is but the consequence of his aesthetics. Mallarme coined for himself a distinctive language and...