Word: talents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth, and so he does not write only of a theme to which college poets have so long devoted their talent and occasional genius, that, despite the universality of the tender sentiment, they have made it pall upon us and caused us to hear with pleasure the other notes that come home to our hearts from "the harp-strings by nature's palm so joyous struck," to use Mr. Hudgens...
Jarius Lincoln of Northboro, Mass., the oldest living graduate of the class of 1814, died last Friday. After graduation be studied for the ministry, but pursued the profession of school-teaching. While at college he showed marked musical talent, and composed several pieces. During the war he was very pronounced in his anti-slavery opinions...
...make histrionism reign the empress of all created hearts throughout the limits of civilization." The truth is, that Miss Mather is simply a fair actress, with a handsome face and form. She has been very carefully trained, in fact over-trained, and while she does possess a little talent, she is devoid of the fire of genius, as Mary Anderson. Miss Mather is designed by her managers to burst upon the astonished gaze of the American public with all the effulgence of last year's comet; but we fear that with whatever eclat her advent is heralded, she will fail...
...Sorosis, who was the sister of Mrs. Butterfield's father, had, in her girlhood, displayed some talent in the way of religious poetry, and after leaving Pennsylvania, and having both time and money at her disposal, she renewed her communings with the Muses and published the results to her great satisfaction in that hebdomadal sheet which assists at digestion of fish-balls and brown-bread in many a Boston household every Sunday morning...
...Vaudeville in the autumn, as she has arranged with Sardou, the Comedie will exact the payment of that sum. In any case, Sarah's return to Paris will be a great event. It will be curious to see what effect her travels will have had upon her talent and her golden voice, and whether, as the foreign critics say, she has become Americanized in her style of acting, or her London marriage with M. Damala, a Greek, has made her more classic...