Word: painful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ambitious youth who has to choose between true happiness and wealth and power. The youth chooses the latter and finds how little profit there is in winning the whole world and losing his own soul. The story is well told. In "Song," C.E.H. prays to taste of pain, of hate, and sin, that he may know what lies beyond. In "Spring Snows," W.C.G. has a pretty conceit; "Should our spring become a winter's day again, can we not build a dream-spring lasting through the years...
...effective. Of the stories, "The Man in Puce Waistcoat" relates a humorous incident, apparently in Eighteenth Century England, of how the choleric gentleman, in the costume described, lost five pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which was brought out by means of a ladle of water. The story is well told. "Un Roi de France" and "The Hoss-Thief" are tales of murder and sudden death. In the first, one does not fully sympathize with Pierre in his heroic calm...
...simple, sensuous and passionate, the poem is faithful to; it has burning passion and sensuous description; but it has not simplicity. Simplicity involves clearness, without which a poem fails to produce its intended effect. Here I am not sure that I understand the emotional situation: what is the "pain" for which God is to be thanked, and why must the lovers be "brave" in their love? One may surmise the explanation, but it does not seem to me that the poem makes it clear. The piece has emotional and descriptive power. The verse is weakened in places by unnecessary repetition...
...intangible part called the soul. The facts about the body are simple; the soul being invisible is only assumed to exist, first through its apparent effects, secondly through self-consciousness. There is but one form of self-consciousness to which we are not passive; we may feel pain or sensation, but we never say that we feel the will. It is always subjective and active...
...thoroughly manly sport because it is sometimes abused, when the experience of every good preparatory school shows that the abuse is in no shape necessarily attendant upon the game. We cannot afford to turn out of college men who shrink from physical effort or from a little physical pain. In any republic courage is a prime necessity for the average citizen if he is to be a good citizen; and he needs physical courage no less than moral courage, the courage, that dares as well as the courage that endures, the courage that will fight valiantly alike against the foes...