Word: sweet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Beatrice had little sentiment; just enough for a great lady, of which she is Shakspere's best type. In this she differed from Viola and Rosalind. She was extremely witty, the wittiest character, except perhaps Benedict, in English literature. Portia was a very 'nice' personage. She had a very sweet and skillful tongue, and a pleasant and graceful, though keen, wit. But she was what we should now call a little strong minded. She was the first dim prevision of the new woman. It must have been hard for her to give up the right hand of government when Bassanio...
...bring out Rosalind's mirthful character. The Rosalinds since Nilson have had conspicuous faults. Modjeska's acting of the part was too modern and hysterical; Miss Davenport's Rosalind lacked poetry. Ada Rehan is the best actress of this character since Nilson, but even she is a bright, sweet, interesting Rosalind and no more. Though fault can be found with these actresses, however, there are few of us who could not gain by seeing their performance of Shakspere. Without seeing him played one can not best enjoy Shakspere...
...looks and speaks like a gentleman people will wish to know him - he has a place in life waiting for him. If he looks like a gentleman but does not speak like one no one will care to have anything to do with him. No one can follow a sweet, dignified speaker without a feeling of pleasure and sympathy...
...Harvard Memorial Biographies' the story of the generous lives of our fellows dead in the war is told with pathetic and tender simplicity. Every page is inspiring. I read a few lines written by one of my own dear college friends, Peter Porter, sweet, high-minded, poetic, humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which...
...strongly like the poets of the seventeenth century; like Donn and Carew, but above all like Crashaw. In every verse of Thompson's we see the intellect at work, and whatever he does he spiritualizes. That Thompson is not always seventeenth century is shown in his poem "Daisy," as sweet, simple and modern as anything we find in contemporary poetry...