Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most powerfully effective of the influences for which he was seeking, where should he look if not to Religion? The sublimities and amenities of outward nature might suffice for William Wordsworth, might for him have almost filled the place of a liberal education; but they elevate, teach and above all console the imaginative and solitary only, and suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind...
...thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate-neither more nor less. I have often thought that a happy image of it is an Italian girl with a jar of water on her head. The necessity of an exact balance gives dignity and something which may almost be called repose, to every motion. If the jar be of classical outline, as it often is, our pleasure is heightened. So in the matter of expression. The first requisite is (as Mrs. Glasse says in her receipt for jugged hare-first catch your hare) to catch your thought...
...mental food. Not a chance mote can be driven against it by the wind that does not send a thrill to the brain along some one of these subtile intellectual fibres stretched seemingly at random in every direction, yet bound one to the other by flying buttresses of almost invisible association, and coming together in the middle point where sits the alert spinner himself...
...find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth has or the Pagan gift of union with it that Shelley has. Nor in them shall we find the mystic imagination of Coleridge. And neither of them sees things in the picture-like sense that Keats does. Almost all of these gifts are found however in a less degree in both these poets. Browning has far less of the picture-like sense than Tennyson. Whatever of these gifts these poets may lack, we find in each of them a real poetic breadth, which goes far to make...
...Hanover Saturday in an interesting game. Although Harvard made but six hits, the men hit the ball harder than the score shows. Whittemore played a strong game, getting a single and a double at the bat and making two star plays in the field. One was a running catch almost in the left fielder's territory, the othor a left handed catch of a hot liner in the fifth inning. Hayes made good throws to the plate in the seventh and and eighth innings...