Word: mindful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this early work three things interest us, the mater, the literary form, and the cast of genius: the latter especially as it tells us the character of mind and temperament and modes of feeling and thinking of our progenitors, as nothing else...
...expression of the emotions of a man who is "at peace with himself and the world, happy in his art and not yet stirred to his very soul by the sorrows of life." An exceedingly odd effect is produced in the first movement by leading the mind gradually on and on till it demands a climax and dropping it just where the climax is expect d. This looks like a mood for occasional playfulness in the composer, a mood not at all inconsistent with the greatness of his genius. This playfulness shows itself again in the last movement. Here again...
...that he strongly hoped some effort would be made to secure it as the nucleus of a museum of archaeology and ethnology in Chicago. It is evident that there is but one suitable depository for such a collection - the museum of the University. Prof. Putnam doubtless had this in mind in making the suggestion. What friend of the University will assist it to secure this great prize? - University News...
...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...
...judge Tennyson, nor to give him his proper rank. We are, in the most serious sense, hero-worshippers before him. The more we read, the more must we admire at once his gentle loveliness, his subtle charm, his manly greatness, and above all, his pure and lofty tone of mind...