Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Real faith was a basal sense of God as imminent, ever-present, conscious, filling the world with life; enveloping, loving, educating and redeeming his children, Faith was self-commitment to him for life and guidance...
...critic Pater dwelt most fondly upon those who were dead. In a little book of criticisms, called "Appreciations," we find him coming nearer the present. In this book he speaks of people only, or almost only, to praise them. In spite of Pater's urbanity, we are sometimes conscious of a faint note of patronage in his criticism. The hyperaesthetic side of Pater has been skillfully satirized under
...descriptions are recollections written in a sick room, after long absence from the scenes of which he wrote. The fact that he was an artist is what we think of most. In "Virginibus Puerisque" he was a conscious artist. If he was in his other works, he succeeds in dissembling the consciousness. Stevenson was forever occupied with the harmonies of prose. The most beautiful passages are in "Virginibus Puerisque...
...only different editions of the same girl. But they are poignantly different. Viola was a tender, delicate creature, almost sentimental. Rosalind also had some sentiment, but with it was combined so much humor that it was rather lost sight of. She laughed on every occasion, perhaps because she was conscious of being the cause of so much laughter in others. 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...
...friendly and helpful to them. As a pupil was of no use without a teacher, so the teacher was of no use without a pupil. The relation between them must be cordial. Among the students a great deal of good could be done by a man without his being conscious of it. The kindly word, the helpful act towards one less fortunately placed would often strengthen him, and save him from a terrible temptation...