Word: purest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would not be wise to overlook the rare quality of the minds that he has most attracted and influenced. If the character of the constituency may be taken as the measure of the representative, there can be no doubt that, by his privilege of interesting the highest and purest order of intellect, Wordsworth must be set apart from the other poets, his contemporaries, if not above them. And yet we must qualify this praise by the admission that...
...some length in an analytical discussion of certain phases of realism of the century, of a certain literary unrest which produces heroes like that one of M. Bourget's who "rots in science, dimly feels his rottoness, defends it in syllogisms, and turns its foul breath on the purest flower in sight." For all this, Mr. Hapgood has a moral and comes to the conclusion that "our discontent with the conditions of our life is an ill-natured confession of personal littleness." As a whole, the study has power, - although there is noticeable, here and there, a vagueness of thought...
...subject of one was The Spy and the Sybil. It treated partly of Balda, who was the purest and whitest of the gods and Loci, who killed him. Balda had dreamed that his life was threatened, and the gods had made all things - the animals and the plants - promise not to harm him. But they had neglected a little plant which grew on the mountains, the mistletoe, which was so small that they thought it could do no harm. Loci heard of this, and possessing himself of a branch, repaired to an assemblage of the gods, when they were throwing...
...satisfies his ambition. The key note of the whole article is struck in the concluding sentences,- "Study, line distinction, the perfection of form, the fittest phrase, the labor limoe and the purgation from immaterialities of ornament or fac, and the putting of what we ought to say in the purest, simplest, and permanent form, - these are what our literature must have, and these are not qualities to be cultivated on the daily press. Of no pursuit can it be said more justly than of literature, that 'culture corrects the theory of success...
...repetitions of courses given to Harvard students, and are given by Harvard instructors; the requirements for the degree-certificate are the same as those for the college degree; and finally, the methods of work and the standards are the same; the elective system is found working there in its purest form, and the same complete freedom which characterizes our own college life is equally characteristic of life at the Annex. In other words the methods which have proved so satisfactory in the education of young men have been tried with equally satisfactory results on young women. There...