Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...speak, to write, is a sign of weakness, of lack of self-reliance. It shows that one's own approbation is not sufficient unless that of others be superadded. And there is a dim belief that the speaker, as Socrates says, is moved by a certain divine inspiration and enthusiasm, or, to describe his condition in plain English, he is mad, and, although possessing a certain method in his madness, nevertheless he is destitute of true wisdom. His mind is not finely balanced, he is not sufficient unto himself, his ideas are purely theoretical...
...greatest success of the week. Messrs. Clark, Bowditch, and Shaw are really remarkably good amateur actors, and the parts in this little farce were such as to bring out the talent of each in its best light, and the audience justly rewarded them with unusual applause and enthusiasm. At the matinee we had "Virginia Mummy" and "Anne Boleyn." The former is a decidedly weak farce, which was only relieved by the excellent negro delineation of Mr. Sturgis. The burlesque is new, we believe, and is probably destined to be a favorite. All the parts were well taken, and all should...
...nomination of officers. Harvard energetically opposed all these amendments, taking the honorable and magnanimous ground that if the colleges were allowed to take students from their different schools, the larger colleges would have a still greater advantage over the smaller than they now have. A decrease of enthusiasm and competition would result, and the true interests of the association would be subverted. But if they were allowed to do so all the schools must be allowed, and the race made one of University against University; for no rule of qualification could be laid down which would put all the colleges...
...least, the rewards and flatteries due to genius real or supposed. The papers have always a spare column for his productions, and a well-trained band of reporters and reviewers to invent, or, if needs be, discover, his antecedents; while the reading public lavishes upon him that superfluous enthusiasm which friends or lovers do not absorb, and it is long odds that he gives his name to a paper collar or to a new form of suspender. It was not so very long ago that that particular school arose which almost did away with our preconceived notions of the simplicity...
...removed from cynicism as is the most earnest and modest charity. Whatever a man's faults may be, or however contemptible, in the common sense, he may appear, if he has a kindly or unselfish trait in his character, it is that which Thackeray dwells upon, which excites his enthusiasm. Perhaps there is no quality which we should less expect to find in a cynic than that of pathos, certainly there is none in which Thackeray more excels. And, moreover, his pathos is extremely simple and unartificial. A good instance of it is the description of Colonel Newcome's death...