Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...religion, Christ is a door, through which Divinity comes to Humanity, just as the artist, the thinker, are door between the realms of beauty, and truth, and men. Through Christ God reveals himself to men. There is an innate passion in the human mind for expansion and one of the forms which this passion takes is a search for God. It is to this searching that the words come "I am the door...
...passionate sympathy with his own time won the Continent to him, while his artistic defects turned England aside. Examined critically Byron's verse is full of flaws, but has above all other verse of this century the force lent by passion. He was a passionate foe of cant...
...Angel of The Adoration" is the title of the first piece of contributed writing. It purports to be a series of extracts from the writer's diary at Oberammergau during the passion play. By means of a series of daily entries the girl who played the angel of the adoration in the passion play is made to fall most hopelessly in love with the writer. She was the daughter of the landlord at whose hostelry the family of the writer were staying and her passion was conceived as she waited on the young gentleman at table...
...discoveries he had made. This is the reason why he was not treated with more consideration by Ferdinand and Isabella. Speaking of his weaknesses Dr. Winsor says: "When we view the character of Columbus in its influence upon the minds of men, we find some strange anomolies. Before his passion was tainted with the ambition of wealth, and its consequence, and while he was urging the acceptance of his views for their own sake, it is evident that he impressed others in a way that never happened after he had secured his privileges. It is after this turning point...
...Sawdust" is a sketch of much power. In it Mr. Hapgood has delineated two characters, - a woman whose passion and love for a certain man are not returned, and the man. The scene which he portrays is incontestably vivid...