Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last years of Romney's life were very sad. His health was broken, his intellect impaired, his powers gone. In 1798 he returned to his faithful and affectionate wife. She nursed him with tender care until he died in 1802. His remorse for deserting her was great and has been touchingly treated by Tennyson in his poem, "Remorse of Romney...
...visit of Professor J. Estlin Carpenter to the University has been of notable value. His activity here has been great; while serving as University preacher he has also given many lectures and sermons. He was a man of strong character and keen, searching intellect. For the beneficent influence he has exerted, the University is deeply grateful...
...Copeland ended with Francis Thompson, a man, he said, strongly like the poets of the seventeenth century; like Donn and Carew, but above all like Crashaw. In every verse of Thompson's we see the intellect at work, and whatever he does he spiritualizes. That Thompson is not always seventeenth century is shown in his poem "Daisy," as sweet, simple and modern as anything we find in contemporary poetry...
...wise to overlook the rare quality of the minds that he has most attracted and influenced. If the character of the constituency may be taken as the measure of the representative, there can be no doubt that, by his privilege of interesting the highest and purest order of intellect, Wordsworth must be set apart from the other poets, his contemporaries, if not above them. And yet we must qualify this praise by the admission that...
which does not hang upon the mercy of chance or of our likes and dislikes, but which if the last copy of it should perish would still live on, because it had transfused with its own divine vitality the intellect and heart of mankind...