Word: loved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...statues of the first class, the Greek sculptors revealed the spirit and character of their subjects solely by consummate skill in choosing the pose. In the gentle lines of the pose of the Venus of Milo, for instance, one reads the gentle and amorous nature of the Goddess of love, while in the more severe lines of the status of Hera in Rome Juno's sterner and more unyielding character is translated...
...were first represented in the ten commandments and were revealed in the life of Jesus, the one perfect man--whether they believe this man to have been a divinely inspired mortal or Christ, the son and substance of the Father. These universal principles of morality comprise the law of love and good will towards other men, obedience to divine laws and reverence toward God. These principles if sincerely believed, will influence the study and the whole lives of men. In their study of science men will seek to learn something of the internal order of the material universe and something...
...repetition of a certain set of lines at various points throughout a picture--a line in a castle echoing a line in a cottage; one on a bridge, another in a fence. These rhythms afford the observer pleasure in echoing or reinforcing some important idea. Secondly, Turner shows love for human interest. Everywhere he enlivens his already intensely charming landscapes by appropriately placed and logically related human figures. And thus his landscape with human interest has an unusual power *sthetically. Lastly, Turner always takes special delight in contrasting the ruin of the rich with the permanence of the poor...
...style and character of his early novels is much the same; all infused with the same personality of the author, somewhat moody and sombre, with a tendency towards moralizing. Yet in all his writing is an undercurrent of hopefulness, of love for the good and beautiful, and of faith in its ultimate triumph. There is very little plot in Hawthorne' s stories,--they are essentially studies of characters and emotions...
...Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's first great success. In truthful depiction and now in satire he had succeeded; he was then to enter, as a novelist, the third stage of his literary development. "Fun is good, truth is better, and love is best of all" he once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does...