Word: passion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distinguieshed from other dramatists, I think we shall find it to be that gift of presenting a multitude of scenes and characters, a jumble of styles and incidents, within the limits of one connected drama Other poets have written exquisite and sublime verse, others have known how to depict passion and unfold character: but no one else has given us these transverse sections of the world, where we see the prince and the beggar side by side, each thinking his own thoughts and speaking his own language; where we see the various intrigues and passions jostling one another as they...
...inspiring to be lost in the confusion of the scene. Lear's voice, whether in rage, madness or contrition, is so powerful that all the whisperings and wranglings around him seem but its tumultuous echoes. The accompaniment of incidental action does not drown the voice of his supreme passion; and thus is avoided that fault which appears in some of Shakspere's historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling and unintelligible noise. In the great tragedies, except Lear, this element, although constantly appearing as a living background...
against being the sport and plaything of every accident and passion, is not the petulant fretting of a born slave, but the noble lamentation of a captive king...
...open for an explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited by no motives, and therefore free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like the essence of the stream, is motion and action. Now this will, by its free activity might enslave itself to passion or ambition, somewhat as the stream, by the force of its own current, might heap up obstacles in its way; yet with this difference, that the stream gathers these obstacles from its bed, while the will finds its dangers only in the intellect of which it is the expression...
...laterly $40,000. Probably nothing could better illustrate the reverence felt for it by the people of the State than the fact that when the Readjusters came into control and secured a majority on the Board of Visitors, not only was no change make by them, though political passion urged it in the Faculty corps, but they filled vacancies occurring therein entirely regardless of political bias. That the University deserves this consideration is made clear by the pamphlet before us. In Mr. Jefferson's day the schools of Virginia were, to use his own words, "paltry academies." He is said...