Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sawdust" is a sketch of much power. In it Mr. Hapgood has delineated two characters, - a woman whose passion and love for a certain man are not returned, and the man. The scene which he portrays is incontestably vivid...
...Charles Lewis Slattery of last year's senior class reflects credit not only upon the author himself but also upon his Alma Mater. Mr. Slattery has taken old Bowdoin College and Brunswick, as he knows them in their historical past and, with skillful touches has given us vivid pictures of the old town and the famous men who have brought credit upon the college, - Longfellow, Hawthorne, President Pierce, and many others. The article is profusely illustrated...
...which those who simply read their books can never attain. Although within the last two months a number of articles about Lowell have appeared, none of them went safely into an account of Lowell's student and home life as does Mr. Sanborn's. He draws a vivid sketch of the intellectual and social life of Cambridge, when the class of 1838 graduated, - when President Kirkland, of whom Lowell in his "Fireside Travels" has left so charming a picture, had been dead for some years, and Dr. Holmes had just left Cambridge for Boston, - when Allston was living...
...allowed free play. Moreover the same thing which duty would command is done better if we do it from love. But duty is needed to keep us true, till our loves are surely wise and strong. We shall do well to help out our sense of duty, by a vivid sense of the consequences of acts. Duty works order and beauty and seems allied to the supreme Reason. Duty can be rejected. An analysis of the act of rejection shows that while sometimes we are overpowered by passions, there are times when we hesitate and then fling our consent into...
...reminiscence of war-times, the tale of a man who was apparently guilty of cowardice during a battle and who afterwards sacrificed his life to a mob in New York to save a negro. The plot is more or less chimerical but there are a number of vivid descriptions in it, - notably the account of the New York...