Word: impartation
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...function of the poet and the writer is to give humanity ideals worth the having. The realism which simply tells us what life is not a worthy, because not a serving form of literature. The true preacher is he who has the right spirit and the power to impart it to others...
...only from the window of a passenger coach, and who wishes to acquaint himself with the environments of each locality, no better means is afforded than the bicycle. In the smaller towns they rarely meet a wheelman from more than 250 miles away, consequently they are very free to impart information to one who has ridden farther. Never was I shown more hospitality than when on this novel trip. When I started, I was unused to any kind of physical exercise to speak of, so that I could not ride fast nor long, but that was not my object. After...
...however, has every prospect of being rejected by her father, on the score of his poverty, till he acquires both wealth and glory by the capture of Fra Diavolo, the bandit Marquis and his lawless retainers. There are two subordinate Canditti - though far from subordinate in the interest they impart to the drama - Beppo and Giacomo, Beppo a half bully, half coward, who would stab an innocent girl, yet crawl on his knees at the mention of the Holy Virgin...
...some place be, we should not have had the beauty of expression, unsurpassable for effectiveness and charm, which is reached in Shakespeare's best passages. The turn for style is perceptible all through English poetry, proving, to my mind, the genuine poetical gift of the race; this turn imparts to our poetry a stamp of high distinction, and sometimes it doubles the force of a poet not by nature of the very highest order, such as Gray, and raises him to a rank beyond what his natural richness and power seem to promise. Goethe, with his fine critical perception...
...fiill themselves with knowledge as utterly to lose the power of initiative. Their knowledge is a great weight rather than a great power. The idea underlying Professor Hanus's work is that men should take time to consider not only how to obtain, but also how to impart. It seems to us to be a very wholesome idea...