Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tennyson, then, resembles the Romantic poets in his lack of sympathy with real life. He lived in a dream-world rather than in the world of real men and real women; and it is the dream-world, with its iridescence of beauty and its simplified and intensified characters, that he portrays for us in his poetry, save where he shows us the distorted pictures of life to be found in the minds of men half-mad with disappointed passion. His impatience of conventional life, his lack of interest in concrete character, and his intense subjectivity, mark him out closely akin...
...instead to devote a few more years to his education. Were it not for this generous aid which Harvard is able to hold out, many of those who now reap the great advantages which the university offers in the way of higher education would have to give up their dream of scholarship and content themselves with the education they received in college. It is needless to point out what a difference this would make in the education of a large part of the country. When it is considered that the great number of those who study in the graduate school...
...there is a contention among them as to what is the moral end. There is no science of right conduct and good character but in the discovery of a self concentration. There is such a thing as faith, and ethical faith. We must recognize the unproved hope that the dream of a science of ethics will be realized, and that moral science will demonstrate that man will some day become king over himself...
...inner life. His religion always looked for its ultimate sanction to his own consciousness. This extreme subjectivity manifests itself further in a disposition to doubt the reality of the outward aspects of nature. His childish idealism took form in a belief that 'life might be a dream or I an angel and all the world a deception, my fellow angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world...
...metrical qualities are decidedly better than anything by the same author that we remember to have seen before. "The Amber-witch" is not up to Mr. Moody's usual standard. It is admirable in the impression of fantastical wierdness that it leaves, like a strange and unpleasant dream, but the versification is very rough in places, and the words are not always well chosen...