Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...served to make him more of an American than ever in his feelings and tastes. Those who have seen him in his delightful retreat at Southborough come away with the impression that not all whom the gods love die young. Few poets have been so notable for the charm of their conversation, and to spend an afternoon in Lowell's study is an event of events...
...this report I have said nothing about the gaiety and beauty and conversation; but in my silence I would not imply indifference. Unquestionably the charm of the music and all enjoyment in the works of art were more than doubled by the presence of a fair companion and interpreter. Between all the lines that I have written I would have the readers of the CRIMSON insert whatever of sentiment and sweetness their own experiences will justify...
...whole been very numerous and exceedingly effective; they have made of what used to be a by no means beautiful spot, a place that must now become one of the centres toward which all interest in Harvard is directed. A view of Holmes from any quarter must have a charm for every one, even the foremost indifferent and insensible. The surrounding buildings, all full of interest and some of them true monuments of Harvard's success and greatness, the crimson-uniformed nine in the centre, the runners and bicyclers, the tennis players, and last and laziest, the throng of lookers...
...this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that it brings before us moods and motives as far removed from our everyday lives as is darkness from light...
...audience last evening, differed but little from the Irving with whom all have become familiar upon the stage. His tones were the same which have been so often heard behind the footlights: his delivery was marked by the same careful enunciation and emphasis which lends it its peculiar charm. In the subject matter of his lecture there was much that was of necessity somewhat trite, but the sombre current of the subject was lightened by many gleams of anecdote and wit. At many passages in which the lecturer rose to the height of true eloquence, the audience showed its appreciation...