Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...power, said Bishop Vincent, by which the soul is restored from evil is due to the grace of God. There is no point at which any man can say that he owes anything to himself and not to the infinite goodness. No human responsibility or work wrought in us by human choice can be compared with the work...
...lines, continued the lecturer, no one speaks them in our day as Mr. Booth did. He spoke in verse as if it were his native tongue, and his voice vibrated not only on the ear but on the soul. He was the last idealist in tragedy. Mr. Irving poses as an idealist, but no one can see him in "Louis XI," or "Dubosc," without thinking what a very realistic idealist he must be. Mr. Irving's speaking of the text in Hamlet, as wherever this actor is called upon to utter blank verse, is by turns sing-songy and jirkily...
...dulls the moral sensibility, and robs the character of its beauty and dignity. On the other hand a love for poetry transforms a man from a solitary individual into a part of the great human race, and reveals to him all that is best and most beautiful in the soul...
...poetry alone that the new life of Italy found expression, but in architecture, sculpture and painting. Into all of these the awakened soul of Italy breathed new life. Of this century in Italy with its love for beauty and its longing for peace, its passion and its cruelty, Dante is the chief figure and his works the chief expression...
...choir sang "Let Every Soul be Subject," by Stainer; "The Path of the Just," by Roberts; and "It is of the Lord's Mercies," by Thorne...