Word: penseroso
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...Penseroso." Professor Robbins, Emerson...
...call your attention to a statement in your issue of Dec. 7 under POLITICAL NOTES-"Il Penseroso," where you say of Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln, "In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Am- bassador." If my recollection is correct the first Ambassador sent to a regular diplomatic post of the U. S. abroad was Thomas P. Bayard of my native state of Delaware who was sent to the Court of St. James's by President Cleveland after the latter became President for his second term in 1898. Mr. Bayard had as you know been Cleveland...
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After leaving the university Milton spent five years at his father's estate at Wharton, which, Professor Lowes brought out, were of great importance in shaping his character, because he devoted them entirely to reading the classics and to deep meditation. "In 'L'Allegro' and 'II Penseroso', which Milton wrote at this time", the speaker continued, "we see the poet's reaction to the beautiful scenery around him, and the evidences of his lyrical genius. Although these poems may appear dry to us because they have been forced upon us as required reading, to the readers of Milton's time...
GLEE CLUB.3-PIANO SOLO - a II Penseroso..........Liszt...