Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Among the Topics of the Day the "Sentimentalist," the frequenter of Cornhill second-hand book-stores figures in a short, well-written essay. "Prescience," though a graceful piece of vorse, can hardly be said to impress one with a true poetic feeling...
...Phillips Brooks was the largest that has been seen this year at any of the college services. Those who were present were well rewarded. Dr. Brooks preached a sermon that was marked throughout by great sublimity of thought and by a beauty of expression that was often poetic. The music of the was often poetic. The music of the choir was above the usual average; it included the anthems, "Hark, Hark, my Lord," by Shelley, and a "Magnificat," by Martin...
...mind has in this century again burst its bonds, as it did just before the Renaissance. It cannot be possible that the "almighty dollar" is to be the only issue from this wonderful new world. Positive thought must be substituted for negative, and it may be that a new poetic energy will rise from among the hot spirits of the Socialists. The gospel of love extended to embrace the happiness of the whole world is the hope and salvation of the future...
...treat the subjects of which they speak in a manner that evinces careful thought and deliberation. The merits of "Retrospect" are confined to the orthography of the dialect, and the poem can lay little claim to literary beauty. Quite different from this is "Acheron," a pretty simile in graceful, poetic language. The writer of "Ce Qu 'On Dit Et La Verite" shows considerable imagination and writes in a lively, entertaining style, which would be none the worse for a little more polish and elegance. The dated-letter or journal-method of telling a story is a device which is beginning...
...Night" is the name of a poem which gives sign of poetic talent that finds expression in well-turned lines and fairly well chosen words. There is, however, too much of the artificial sentimental in it to permit us to call it a very promising effort. There is not much to be said for "Anna Polanova" a story placed in the high life of St. Petersburg. There are enough larynxruffling gutterals in the name of the various "vitches" and "ovnas" to make a careless reader believe that it is a powerful Russian story, but a closer perusal will show that...