Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...picture of the quiet and peace of the ocean scene is a delicate piece of painting that strikes one strongly with its deep tinges of classic spirit, and makes one think of Homer. In truth, there is throughout this poem a healthiness of sentiment and grace of form that bring into only too unpleasant relief the affectation and crudity of some of the others...
...exchanges. To Mr. Robinson we extend our sympathies, at the same time, however, urging him to remain both where he is so sadly needed and where he can doubtless command a good salary, if their college press is able to help him out." For real imbecility of language and sentiment we must commend this last sentence to students of English literature, while all readers will recognize the beauty of the motives that urge men to speak so politely of a gentleman who, for good and apparent reasons, declined to enter their service...
...spite of the urgent request of the class day committee, and in spite of the wishes of the whole senior class and the sentiment of the entire college, a member of the graduating class is endeavoring to induce the poorer members of '82 to sell their tickets to him, and to aid him in getting into his hands all that may remain unsold after the stated day. In this way he will be enabled to have a monopoly of the tickets, and dispose of them at whatever price or to whatever persons he may choose for his greatest pecuniary gain...
...says he can't but accept the world as he finds it, including a rope's end, as long as it is in fashion. We know that Thackeray was rather eccentric and we surely need no other evidence of his individuality of character than the expression of this very sentiment. For most people admire only the things that belong to antiquity, fancying that nothing can be really good until it has been dead and buried a hundred years...
There is a general local sentiment in favor of the sale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard...