Word: optimistic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lamartine's imagination was stimulated by his visit to Italy in 1812 when he met Gragiella, and by his visit to Aix where he came into relations with the original of his Elvire. As for his own personal nature, he is essentially an optimist. In this way he was able to give their true poetic value to those sentiments which are the very substance of lyric poetry. Love he considers an eternal sentiment; death the dawn of a glorious immortality. In nature he sees a comforter of man. His religious sentiment is a belief in the existence of the Creator...
...second great demand of the age, and it is one which grows out of the first, is the demand for the optimist. There is enough in the American life today to encourage pessimism. People say America is not the place for scholars and gentlemen, but they do not read the signs of the times. A man who begins his university life today begins with much crudity, but every healthy man ought to be glad that his life begins today...
Robert Browning was by nature an optimist, and his large, hearty hopefulness shows in every thing he did. While the hero of Tennyson was the man who followed duty, the hero of Browning followed the wishes of his own heart...
...guests were treated to a very interesting talk by Professor Sumichrast on Renan, and his philosophy, Professor Sumichrast said he had chosen his subject because Renan had lately died and because Renan had more influence than any other one man on French thought of today. Renan was an optimist, while the majority of the young writers and thinkers of today are pessimists of the worst sort. Renan, says Professor Sumichrast, has not been the prime cause of atheism in France, which really has been steadily diminishing in the last twenty-five years...
...result of this discovery, he left the seminary and sought for the truth in science. All seemed dark to him and he went to Palestine to travel. When he returned he was changed to an optimist. He was deeply imbued with Christ and wrote a passionate account of his life...