Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirty-five years, is an interesting event in the career of a distinguished and honored man. During the generation which has placed him among the foremost of our men of letters, Dr. Holmes has been devoted also to scientific study, and the brilliancy of his wit and the tender glow of his poetic genius have but enhanced the value of his professional teaching. The Professor, the Autocrat and the Poet have been interchangeable, and his latest published lecture to his classes is as notable for various and accurate and unusual learning as it is for crisp and charming literary skill...
...does not fairly catch the spirit of the 'fast set' at Harvard. We presume it does not; but it has done better still - it has caught the spirit of true manliness, and will find an answering sympathy in more breasts than those of 'the fast set.' It is tender; it is joyous; it is beautiful; it is noble. Fresh from the reading of it, our heart still brimming over with laughter and with tears, our brain still teeming with - no! we will not believe them the creatures of imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems...
Resolved, That we tender our heartfelt sympathy to his sorrowing family and friends...
Resolved, That we tender our sympathy to the sorrowing family and friends of the departed...
...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' own words...