Word: passion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sternly concealing his passion, he drowns it in strong lemonade...
...love, when, inspired, I suppose, by the object of their sonnets, they often astonish every one but themselves by the excellence of their verses, just as madmen have been known to develop powers of which their hours of sanity showed no trace; others, again, are attacked by the passion for versification at an advanced, perhaps a senile age, when they make themselves happy and their friends miserable by long letters in doggerel. In a word, all men write poetry at some time, and a great many while in college. Of these latter it may be allowable for me to speak...
...Passion and strife have lost their power...
...this, although she triumphs over her meaner-spirited rival and has it in her power to retain all her advantages, her noble nature shines forth after a fierce struggle, and she decides to confess, abandon all, and return to her former degraded condition. Every kind and degree of passion of which human nature is susceptible is found in this character. Ambition, gratified pride, love, hate, fear, and remorse, each struggle in turn for the mastery, and these, it is needless to say, are portrayed by Miss Leclercq in a most artistic and powerful manner. Miss Orton has the part...
...stripling who thwarted my passion...