Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which governs Tennyson. Even in "In Memoriam," an ode to a dead friend, who was far dearer to him than any one else in the world, we find a gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears completely. The tendency of Tennyson is to glorify restraint rather than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music and art, because it is the custom of the artist...
...improvement of the cheering itself and in keeping down a tendency which occasionally crops out and which, if not nipped in the bud, is likely to result unfortunately. In every game we wish to show the true Harvard spirit, but there is particular need of care and self restraint when we meet Yale. The feeling then is strong and the crowds are critical. There ought to be men appointed who will use their influence to see that nothing occurs again to mar the good name of the University...
...Puritan regime was overthrown and the reaction was strong against solemnity and restraint. The succeeding literature showed little reverence or earnestness, but bubbled over with jollity...
...read far in Paul without entering into his joy in the Lord. We are to think of Paul as a university man, influenced largely as young men are by great respect for the past. At first submissive to the duties imposed upon him he began to chafe under the restraint, and later keeps referring to the joyful day that made him free...
...with himself in order to tell the truth. Nor is anyone righteous until the best path is the only one for him; until his self-government is so complete and so exactly in accordance with the divine laws that in his obedience he is free, and he feels no restraint from restrictions that forbid what he hates...