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One may not be an Italian, and never have been in Italy, yet find the Divina Commedia made not teasing but infinitely vivid and agreeable by Dante's innumerable references to his country, Florentine and general. That some keener thrill, some nobler gust, may arise in the reading of the poem to those who have actually watched "The line of festal light in Christ Church Hall"
It is a valuable gift for I think it is a gift, although it is one which may be greatly improved by study and practice. Two or three times I stopped him, however, for I thought I saw an object in the distance which I took to be a boat. Oh, how my heart beat! But when Oliver looked and his eyes are keener than mine he assured me that there was nothing, and that it must have been fancy.
And she wonders, again, whether any pupil in her school may ever exemplify such behavior. =History.= When she reads her history she has a keener, deeper, and wider interest than ever before, for she now realizes that every event of history is an effect, whose inciting causes lie back in the years, and is not fortuitous as she once imagined.
Your small man, not in the amount of business, but small-minded, dearly loves to hold back until you have sent him notice of draft made on him; he at once sends on a remittance then and his little soul takes comfort in telling, when the draft on him is presented, 'I do not owe them anything; their bill is paid. Or else he waits till the draft is presented and dishonors it because it is drawn 'with exchange. But there ought to be a keener sense of the honor to be won in paying bills promptly.
Hounded down the slope by his tormentors, he had left a memento behind him surer than their torturing knives, keener than their sharpest steel he had left the sleeping sickness behind him. His last journey had been worthy of his reputation.
And that satisfaction took on a keener edge when Ashe clinched and they fell to the earth a struggling, squirming heap for Thompson felt a tremendous power in his arms, in those arms covered with flat elastic bands of muscle hardened by weeks of axe-slinging, of heaving on heavy logs. He wrapped his arms about Ashe and tried to crush him. One trial of that fierce grip enlightened Tommy Ashe.
His appetite for novelty was insatiable, and for everything characteristically foreign, as it presented itself, he had an extravagant greeting; but in half an hour the novelty had faded, he had guessed the secret, he had plucked out the heart of the mystery and was clamoring for a keener sensation. At the end of a month, he presented, mentally, a puzzling spectacle to his companion.
A confused sentiment as of a dream remained with me after this long conversation, but the thoughts of Catherine became keener. In despite of the sublimities I had been listening to, I was overcome by a powerful desire to see her, although I had not had any supper. The ideas of philosophy had not sufficiently penetrated me to cause anything like a disgust at that pretty girl.
Our taste in art, our taste in poetry, our taste in architecture, our taste in music go up, as our taste in magazine fiction seems to go down. But what are the writers of short stories and what are the editors and publishers doing to help taste improve itself until, as Henry James says, it acquires a keener relish than ever before? It profits nothing to attack the American writer.
* It is interesting to note the dominant share taken in the trade and exploration of the North and West by men of Highland Scotch and French extraction. On the Pacific coast rivalry was still keener. The sea otter and the seal were a lure to the men of many nations. Canada took its part in this rivalry.
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