Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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IV.Style.The primary question with books and shoes alike is-How do they wear? And, as literature is an art, the first question we should ask is-not what a man's natural gift may have been-but, What use has he made of it? Even in imaginative literature. imagination is not enough by itself; that it may become in any sense art, it must be united with style, which is the instinct of form...
...working as it can and will only in the hands of genius? His teaching, whatever it was, is part of the air we breathe, and has lost that charm of exclusion and privilege that kindled and kept alive the zeal of his acolytes while it was still sectarian or even heretical. but he has that surest safeguard against oblivion, that imperishable incentive to curiosity and interest that belongs to all original minds. His finest utterances do not merely nestle in the ear by virtue of their music, but in the soul and life, by virtue of their meaning. One would...
...Even as a teacher he is often too much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes...
...Even if the 'varsity captain has no particular interest in the freshman team this year, would it not be for the interests of future 'varsity baseball to give the young and new players thorough instruction at the very beginning of their career in college baseball? Is not this neglect a direct injury to Harvard's baseball hopes...
From the first it is the feeling of law which governs Tennyson. Even in "In Memoriam," an ode to a dead friend, who was far dearer to him than any one else in the world, we find a gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears completely. The tendency of Tennyson is to glorify restraint rather than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music...