Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...truth that makes them seem real and alive. They always followed the line of thought closely; they were clear and precise; they thought of what they spoke, and not of how they spoke, Stern, rude, and unadorned their poetry was, but certainly it had vitality, significance, and grandeur...
...aspects as something more than helps or hindrances to his own particular designs, cannot have failed to be impressed in some degree by the mathematical precision displayed by every particle in earth, air and water. A few thoughts on this invariable order will not, however, fully comprehend its grandeur. It is not at first easy to realize that every law, from highest to lowest is perfectly fulfilled in the physical structure of the stars. To many men it is not sufficient to say that of course the laws of nature always hold, and that force will always produce the same...
...Chorus of Wagner," by W. M. Moody, has something of the grandeur in thought of one of Wagner's conceptions, but is extremely unmusical. Some of its epithets are poorly chosen, and it seems rather strange for the "wild eye" to continue "glaring" after its owner has become "shriveled, dead." Mr. 'H. McCulloch's "Ballad" is a pretty fancy well expressed. The best of the poetical contributions is Mr. H. Bates' "Somewhere." It is imaglnative and melodious, and makes a pleasing and original poem out of what might have seemed a commonplace subject...