Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...music, in which the passions, the hopes, the joys, and disappointments of life, are so strangely intermingled, and especially did the fitness show itself, in the ending of the last number where the imaginative mind readily sees, as the composer intended, the triumph of an individuality over circumstance, the quiet close of a life lived in harmony with the good, and discord with the bad. This service, so suggestive, so symbolic of the beauty of Mr. Lowell's life, must have deepened the feeling of reverence and love which Harvard and Cambridge have felt for the student and poet...
...love and esteem of companions He moved in a Bohemian world, but he was not of it. He was closely connected with his celebrated contemporaries and he was in favor at court. His unobtrusiveness is a noticeable trait. He had an unusual shyness of all publicity and was a quiet stately actor. His favorite parts were those of the Ghost, in Hamlet, and Old Adam, in As You Like It. He was, in fine, "a fantastical fellow of dark corners." He was devoted to his sacred art but the author disappeared in the work. Ruskin has said: "An artist...
...Young Men's Christian Association in its report for the first half-year shows that it accomplishes a good deal of work which is unknown to a large part of the college. In a quiet way the association has been going about, giving help to men in college and also doing a certain amount of outside work. Much of this outside work, that among the sailors, that of the committee on visiting the sick, and that at the Boston missions has been carried on in a way attracting so little attention that it may even be supposed that...
...Symphony" by Schumann was the fifth number. This work is intended to convey the impressions of the composer on a visit to Cologne and its second performance took place there in 1851. There are five movements, the first and last being "vivace." The three middle ones are solemn and quiet and the whole leaves a very pleasant impression with the hearer...
...reads the charming "Sonnets" which Mr. Santayana contributes to this number of the Monthly, there comes an earnest wish that more of its author's work might be published. For all of the five sonnets charm one by reason of a quiet but exquisite elegance of diction, a poetical serenity of thought, and touches of soulful aspiration. Of the five, the first three appear to us to be the best, although perhaps at the most such culling is invidious distinction...