Word: manhoods
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Dryden's lack of principle, or possibly his indolent disposition led him always to submit to the ruling powers. He was Puritan in his youth, royalist in his manhood, papist in his old age. Yet after all the man was so easily influenced that it was almost impossible for him not to follow the lead of the majority. Whatever may have been his character as a man, certainly as a poet he gave with every advancing year added proof of strength, maturity and nobility. His genius was rather receptive than creative; the seeds that were planted in his mind bore...
...work is full of dignity and some of his characters show that his own nature must have been that of a gentleman. There is in his work no trace of humor; his mind seemed to turn instinctively to sterner things and be delighted in the praise of valor and manhood...
...special adaptation for abstruse reasoning, to try his hand at this; but, if not, to devote himself to economic history, and try to explain present facts by analogy with past facts. He cited Charles Booth's book as an example of study on the conditions of manhood, with practical suggestions for the relief of distress, which did not pretend to go into theory which should settle all possible problems. Certainly this slow yet practical method has more promise in it, than the theorizing which attempts to settle all things at one sweep...
...undesirable. In its judgement the ends sought by these societies, so far as they are laudable, may be secured by other means which shall be free from the objection of secrecy, of rigid exclusiveness, and of antagonism to the democratic spirit which is inherent in the highest scholarship and manhood and the most exalted citizenship, and it would be deeply gratified that if the high purpose and lofty feeling of the body of students should lead them to co-operate with it by voluntarily excluding everything that make against a broadly fraternal spirit on which the University of Chicago...
...appropriate to a concert in memory of James Russell Lowell, he chose three works which were, as far as possible, the expression of all that is noble in man. By grouping together, representations of three types of character, all different, yet all pointing to one ideal conception of manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed in Schubert's unfinished symphony, a life beautifully calm, yet with its moments of sorrow, finally...