Word: poignantly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" would have added to its indubitably strong effect with a more frequent contrast of the comic and some such centering principle as that of "A Window in Thrums." Maclaren's pathos on the other hand is indescribably quick, poignant, and as the French say-saisissant. And if all his two volumes were on the same level with "Doninie," "Drumsheugh's Love Story," and "A Doctor of the Old School," here would be work that would surpass Mr. Barrie's best. As it is, these three sketches-said Mr. Copeland...
...baser consolations, it is also one of the most disheartening concomitants of long life, that we get used to everything. Two things, perhaps, retain their freshness more perdurably than the rest,- the return of spring, and the more poignant utterances of the poets. And here, I think, Wordsworth holds his own with the best. But how much of his poetry is likely to be a permanent possession? The answer to this question is involved in the answer to a question of wider bearing,- What
...Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent affected. This style has now completely passed away and it is as the agent of the change which overthrew it that Wendell Phillips appears. It was probably the anti-slavery movement itself, with its feelings and sympathies calling for a poignant type of eloquence, which produced the change...