Word: delights
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...different ways have fittingly expressed: "His clear and luminous intellect, shining with a steady glow, has been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround us. Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth...
...however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse, he seems to take a sophomoric delight in degenerate aspects of social life, and to look with smiling tolerance upon vices which a conscientious artist would lash with indignant satire...
...thoroughly worked out. The author has not given Chesterton, the whole man. He recognizes the value, critical and philosophical, of many of Chesterton's paradoxes, but is inclined impulsively to give equal importance to all, including those which are mere exercises in verbal ingenuity. We read Chesterton with delight because of his manliness, because of his courage, because he has ideals; we honor him because he insists on the value of ideals and of faith as springs of action; because he would substitute for our modern, sentimental purposelessness the energy of a brave purpose; because he is not what...
...five pieces in verse are as various in form as in subject. The author of "The Pickle of the Past," with a frank disclaimer of anything that makes for sentimentalism, gets down to the hardpan of wholesome boyish sentiment in a way that ought to delight his contemporaries; as it certainly will their fathers and uncles. "Cragan the Spalpeen" shows touches of Celtic with and spirit such as the author, if we may judge by his name, comes honestly by. The metre of line eleven halts badly and is easily amended. The author of "The Lecture-Tasters" is moderately funny...
There is a tendency on the part of most men, Dr. Burnett said, to assume things on utterly unsatisfactory grounds. This tendency is manifested when we substitute our feelings of absurdity, religious sentiment, mere physical pleasure, or extreme delight in the beautiful, for reasoning thought. It shows itself also when our moral feelings destroy our true perspective of the beautiful, or when our feelings for the beautiful usurp our moral ideas...