Word: passion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Celt's quick feeling for what is noble and distinguished gave his poetry style; his indomitable personality gave it pride and passion; his sensibility an nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still,- the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious life and grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate...
George Meredith still holds by the old theories and practices in his novels, so that it is a pleasure to see such a master handling old methods. In Beauchamp's Career and Diana of the Cross Ways we see the effects of passion, poetry and strength so commingled as to form a maize or thicket of difficulties similar to those which we encounter in Carlyle and Browning...
...theory which he propounded as the beautiful, mild life which he practiced. When men asked what the Nirvanah was to be, and what was the explanation of existence, he would answer, "Do not discuss what Nirvanah is; it is the going out from your souls of the fires of passion and lust." Thus he brought his questioners down to the practical duties of life. When we see how good and lovable a man he was and how he tried to make men better, both in his time and afterwards, we cannot deny that he was a great teacher, and that...
...religion. A man may believe in God as he believes in gravitation and yet know no religion. A man often believes in God because he can conceive of no other First Cause. The difference between faith in God and religion is that one is cold and the other a passion, an expression of the heart's longing to give all that it has to give...
Modern Language Conference. The Influence of the 18th Century Passion Oratorio upon Klopstock's Messias. Professor Francke. Sever...