Word: genial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...privilege to be introduced to the great augustan lyrical poet and critic by one so thoroughly conversant with his author, and so deeply imbued with all the distinguishing qualities of this refined, genial, clear sighted, thorough-bred Roman gentleman...
...Peabody was a prophecy of a united church. Though men questioned his doctrine no one ever suggested that he had not the spirit of Christ. As a heavy fall of snow, that, for the time, blocks all communication among men, is melted away in the presence of a genial sun; so the barriers of sect disappear and must disappear before such a kindly personality as that of the gentle preacher of Harvard. Men like him do not break barriers, they melt; they do not make an attack, they create an atmosphere...
Socially he stood high and was universally liked by his class mates who elected him their marshal at graduation. His genial ways and manly bearing commanded respect from every one. Those who knew him personally will especially mourn his loss...
...Chaucer was a marked contrast. Langley was a novelist, Chaucer an artist. His nature was sunny and genial, he was satisfied to take things as they were, and try to describe not to better them. He was a man of facts; not only was he an eager student, and a prodigious reader, but an accomplished man of the world. He had the best education England afforded, he paid a visit to Italy, and shared in the active life of English politics...
Resolved: - That in the death of Ernest Hill we have lost a liberal, earnest and studious companion. By his genial manners he won warm personal friends who will deeply mourn his loss...