Word: sumptuous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whenever we read, it is May for us again. The rich texture of Mr. Snow's "Ave atque Vale" is almost palpable Color and sumptuous description recall in lines like...
...room itself is an invaluable addition to the Library. It is an exceptional combination of beauty and utility. Probably no other university can boast of so sumptuous a room devoted entirely to reading for pleasure. When a student has a few minutes to spare he can spend them most profitably in its comfortable arm-chairs. For his selection the walls are lined with the classics of English literature in the most attractive editions. He will be furnished with books of immediate interest in the growing collection of writings on the war by Harvard men. On the whole the room will...
...pomp and brilliance of Tudor England sweep past us in this sumptuous production. Majestic history lives again as 'full-blown Wolsey' (in Dr. Johnson's phrase), burly King Henry, and the nobly pathetic Queen Katharine tread the stage. It is a play of great figures clashing in great scenes. The death of Buckingham, the meeting of Henry and Anne Bollen at the ball, the trial of Queen Katharine, the fall of Wolsey, the coronation of Anne--these scenes show forth the spirit of that turbulent...
...There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration--and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours. The people of New England are by nature patient and forbearing, but there are some things which they will not stand. Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about "Beautiful Spring". I like...