Word: passion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Scott's poems contain more of the Homeric or epic element than other poems in the English language." [Quoted from Principal Shairp's: The Homeric Spirit in Scott. Aspects of Poetry, p, 324. Contra, See Matthew Arnold's lectures on Homer (passion) in Essays in Criticism...
...Unselfish Life." In substance his remarks were as follows: "Cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shall find it after many days.' That is a counsel for life. unselfish life. It seems to the majority of men that the pleasures of life must be through sense, through passion. The great battle of life is the struggle between what seems and what is. Let us study the advice given in the text. Only the highest soul can give us real, good advice; or a man like the apostle Paul or the apostle John. But one can give advice from...
...real women; and it is the dream-world, with its iridescence of beauty and its simplified and intensified characters, that he portrays for us in his poetry, save where he shows us the distorted pictures of life to be found in the minds of men half-mad with disappointed passion. His impatience of conventional life, his lack of interest in concrete character, and his intense subjectivity, mark him out closely akin to the Romantic poets, and as not having passed beyond the Romantic point of view and the Romantic mood in any such way as Browning, for example, passed beyond...
...love. This idea of love cannot be said to be Dante's distinctively, for it is rather the fusion of three ideas of love which he found prevalent in the world: - the Platonic love, or the desire of the incomplete to make itself perfect, whose ideal was the passion for pure wisdom and pure beauty; the Christian love, which finds its source in tenderness and infinite pity; and the chivalric love, typified by Dante's own love for Beatrice. In this love there was no hope of attaining his beloved, but even after her death, it was her memory that...
Renan was distinctly an intellectual man without sentiment. He never felt love as a passion...