Word: tasks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comparison with the advantage of learning sound lessons in tact and acuteness from an instructor who has made these subjects a life study. To deliver just opinions not only on the merits of the disputants, but also on their defects, without regard to the persons criticised, is a task few can accomplish with success. The instructor in English 6 is one of these few. Severe as his criticism often is, it is always just, and it is told in such a manner that the person criticised, unless over-sensitive, cannot but feel grateful...
...while she milks the bosky cows. Then in the fall I will leave her, promising, as I press her to my bosom, to return in a week and marry her. Winter will come, but not I; the sweet maid will droop and fade, no longer singing about her daily task; finally she will die and be laid away in the cold earth, while a stranger from the city (that's I) will come and drop a tear over her grave. Say, dearest maid, will you be such an one to me? That sigh betokens regard, I know; speak quick...
...first chorus. The choruses will all be sung, and perhaps the dance which accompanied the singing will be attempted also. The seats will be taken from the floor of Sanders Theatre in order that the chorus may take its place there. Mr. Riddle has already begun the no small task of committing the many hundred lines which fall to Oedipus. It is very gratifying that such an undertaking should have been begun under so good auspices, and with so much enthusiasm. It should have the thorough commendation of all lovers of the classics, and it cannot fail...
...strive to magnify the sagacious Goose with this feeble, academic pen? Only a quill from her own wing would be equal to the task. It were better to give over the attempt, and try only to heed her counsels...