Word: charm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Black then reviewed in outline the growth of Tennyson's genius, and the events of his literary life. From his parents he inherited physical vigor, spiritual charm, and intellectual superiority. His father was a man of parts, strong and artistic; his mother a gentle, loving woman; his many brothers and sisters bright, intelligent, and poetic. It was a dreamy, and yet inspiring life...
...early youth, that Tennyson inbibed his deep love of nature. The charms of the scenery stamped themselves indelibly on his mind. He never contented himself with picturesque generalizations. He shows an intimate, precise acquaintance with nature, and his eye for color and minuteness of detail lends much of their charm to all his poems...
...this poem has now come to mourners. We make no attempt to judge Tennyson, nor to give him his proper rank. We are, in the most serious sense, hero-worshippers before him. The more we read, the more must we admire at once his gentle loveliness, his subtle charm, his manly greatness, and above all, his pure and lofty tone of mind...
...editorial board of the Yale Record has adopted a watch charm in the shape of an owl with rings outspread, wearing a mortar-board cap on which are the words "Yale Record" in blue enamel. The charm is of gold and was made by Tiffany...
...story, "The Chatelaine of La Trinite." It is by Mr. Henry B. Fuller, a Chicago man, who about a year ago gave evidence of exceptional talent-not to say genious,-in his Italian sketch, the "Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani." In the "Chatelaine" we find the same individual charm of style, the felicity of expression and the happy touches in the descriptions which characterized his previous work, and there is good reason to hope that Mr. Fuller will keep up to the high standard which he has set for himself...