Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stand in an unholy fear of God, and to feel that religion, though an admirable thing to die with, is a hindrance to our peace and success in this life. Our failure to gain a right understanding of our relation to God is not a difficulty of sentiment, but of what we believe to be our best interest. We are afraid that, to profess Christianity, we must resign all hope of being successful in a worldly sense. Yet the command to the young man to give up his possessions was only incidental to the promise of eternal life. Christ knew...
...last of the great painters of the Renaissance were Tintoretto and Paul Veronese, whose pictures cover the walls of Venice. Veronese was the latest, and in some respects, the greatest painter in Venice. Though in his works there is no depth of religious sentiment, there is an abounding fullness of life, and everything is fresh and natural. At the death Tintoretto and Paul Veronese, Italy lost the last of the giants of the Renaissance...
...lyric poet and he was completely wrapped up in the romantic movement. He did not see that a scientific movement was making itself felt in literature. Those who did see the growth of this movement feared that its effect on poetry would be fatal. They believed that poetic sentiment and expression were incompatible with scientific accuracy. But their fears were not well grounded; for there sprang up a new school of poetry which proved that by reconciling these ideas to each other a better poetry would be produced...
...many students are in sympathy with them before they can go further with the matter. If only a few men sign the blue-books there can be no further use of effort for this new movement; if, on the contrary, it becomes evident that there is a pretty general sentiment in favor of the plan it can probably be carried out successfully. Men who are interested in the matter will help it on its way by putting their signatures on the list as soon as possible...
...Pantoum," by Louis How, has no interest except for the peculiar style of rhyming which the author effects; but the sonnet by Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., is worthy of notice in that it departs from the usual custom of Advocate sonnets and gives evidence of a foundation of ideas and sentiment not wholly obscured by the demands of rhyme and meter. The author has just been elected to the board of editors...