Word: limpidity
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...idea in a mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name appropriately terminates the simple lyric...
...larger one, seen from fore to aft, is lifted up on the crest of a wave surging against her side; the passengers and seamen crowding on the deck are painted with unusual animation and attention to detail. The warm-colored sails are brought down in beautiful reflections in the limpid water of the trough of the sea, and the transparent surface of the large wave at the left is finely relieved by a touch of opaque white light supplied by a sea gull flying close to the green water, the limpidity of which is further accentuated by the spume-fringed...
Improve the river-front! Never, since some wild Idealist suggested making Harvard Square a business centre, has such a radical suggestion been heard, Conceal that triumph of architecture, the boiler-factory, in a spinney of Japanese hemlocks! Cover those pebbly, tin-canned shores, where laps the limpid Charles, with clumps of alligator pear trees and groo-groo palms! Yet the scheme has its advantages. The exiled Freshman, in his far-off lonely habitation, may feel that he has at least sympathy, if he can watch from his window the weeping willows drooping over the water. The lone oarsman can compromise...
...races and epochs this turn for style is peculiarly observable; and perhaps it is only on condition of having this somewhat heightened and difficult manner, so different from the plain manner of prose, that poetry gets the privilege of being loosed, at its best moments, into that perfectly simple, limpid style, which is the supreme style of all, but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose. The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity of prose, and is the same kind of simplicity as that which Goethe's style, in the passage which I have...
...Limpid as verse, with wit and learning flows...