Word: mother
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Puritan time, the boy, the girl, the mother and the father, came to prayer each night as they had done in the morning. Is it not clear that if we could make a town, a state, a nation begin each day in this way and with the purpose to glorify God, that it could achieve impossibilities...
...cuts strikingly suggestive of much of the second part of Faust, and as the correspondence took place at the same time Goethe was writing this half it is not at all improbable that he was influenced by these wood-cuts. The most conspicuous coincidence is in regard to the mother scene. Goethe himself when asked where he got his idea said from Plutarch. In the Hypnerotomachia however, there are two wood-cuts, the first showing a rock in which are cut three gates, the inscription over the middle one being "mater amoris," the second showing the meeting of the hero...
...wish to commend very highly the plan of printing a number of pictures especially appropriate to the Christmas-time and above all the pictures by Americans. There are reproductions of no less than five paintings by our own artists. One which we at Harvard should be interested in the "Mother" by Edward E. Simmons, himself a Harvard man and the author of the window in Memorial which the class of '84 put up. The others are by Abbott H. Thayer, Mary L. Macomber, E. H. Blashfield and F. V. Drumond...
...bespoke the lofty character of the man. He who had sung of death as has no other poet of any time passed away in such quiet majesty that it makes his mourners realize that death is after all, an integral part of life, that it comes as a loving mother to close the eyes of her weary child...
...Black then reviewed in outline the growth of Tennyson's genius, and the events of his literary life. From his parents he inherited physical vigor, spiritual charm, and intellectual superiority. His father was a man of parts, strong and artistic; his mother a gentle, loving woman; his many brothers and sisters bright, intelligent, and poetic. It was a dreamy, and yet inspiring life...