Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...original of his Elvire. As for his own personal nature, he is essentially an optimist. In this way he was able to give their true poetic value to those sentiments which are the very substance of lyric poetry. Love he considers an eternal sentiment; death the dawn of a glorious immortality. In nature he sees a comforter of man. His religious sentiment is a belief in the existence of the Creator in every created thing...
...grand plans of Alexander been consummated and Greece become the dominant power in the East and West, results so glorious might have followed as to dazzle the imagination. Greek civilization, sturdier that that of Rome, by escaping the collapse under the barbarian hordes, would have saved the world the Dark Ages. But with the death of Alexander came chaos...
...course of lectures by M. Ferdinand Brunetiere of the French Academy. M. Brunetiere is unquestionably in the very first rank of living critics; he has given us, in pure and eloquent French, his own observations on Moliere, whom he considers to be the greatest writer of the most glorious century in French literature...
...photographs of Harvard athletes and athletic teams, of baseballs and footballs won in competition, and of all flags, cups and other trophies which should come into Harvard's possession. It was felt that if these trophies were properly displayed they would be valuable not only as pleasant souvenirs of glorious victories and honorable defeats in the past but as inspirations to redoubled efforts for athletic success in the future...
...sympathy. I would not live in an old building, on that account, if I could live in a new one, with its numerous conveniences. Harvard has outgrown many things, and she can well outgrow some more. A tree exercise, with plenty of room for every one, would be a glorious innovation...