Word: loved
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Power is a visible force. It almost always shows itself in violence of some sort and its instruments are consequently strife, war, and death. But history shows that power has come more and more under the sway of justice, right and love. Kings have found that the abuse of power endangers their own lives and that to make themselves secure they must temper power with humanity. Social power feels its duty toward the ignorant and all the forces of education and religion are being brought to bear on the problem of their salvation. Humanity, then, has influenced power...
...notable things in history is the love of the Jews for Jerusalem. Their longings in exile for their native city run all through the Psalms. In their absence from the temple, they met and talked together; from these meetings arose the services of the synagogues at which it was the custom to have music. Different men were engaged in collecting the songs and finally about the second century all these collections were combined in the book as we have it today. So it contains poetry of all sorts. The Paslter is a record of emotions pressed out of a people...
...very marked polka time. It begins in the minor and passes soon to the major on the same theme and then back again to the minor. The third is a very dainty, tasteful "Miuett" movement. The "Romanze" has a very mournful, pathetic character and suggests something like disappointed love. The fifth is a wild, furious climax to the whole story - perhaps a suicide in connection with the disappointed love. There is ample chance here for the play of feeling on the part of the musicians and feeling had its place...
...flowing from the human heart. It is not enough that a man should have a clean conscience, and a clean head; there is a hunger for Almighty God that must be satisfied. We die alone and for the most part live alone; a man's friends and even his love, no matter how strong, are both insufficient. We are incapable of expressing what is in our hearts, so, feeling that God must know everything, we simply fall down and worship...
...early youth, that Tennyson inbibed his deep love of nature. The charms of the scenery stamped themselves indelibly on his mind. He never contented himself with picturesque generalizations. He shows an intimate, precise acquaintance with nature, and his eye for color and minuteness of detail lends much of their charm to all his poems...