Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...marked contrast to Thierry's imagination is the sensibility of Michelet. This quality in Michelet's writing was the result of his unhealthy nature and of the suffering of his childhood and youth. He has the imagination of the heart; he penetrates the soul. For this reason he has a sympathetic appreciation of the Middle Ages and is the best historian of Jeanne d'Arc. But after 1843 Michelet lost the equilibrium he had preserved between imagination and erudition; and history came to mean for him mere pamphlet writing...
...three representative speakers of my childhood there were visible two or three things which are not to be found now. The old type of sonorous oratory has almost gone. In those days men thought they must speak in a sort of architectural way. There was something put upon the speech. It was not sure that everything lay in the speech itself...
...carefully written and thoughtfully studied essay on Wordsworth's Ode on Immortality is contributed by Alfred D. Sheffield. It shows Wordsworth's keen appreciation of the significance of the connection between nature and child life. In contemplating childhood, says the writer, Wordsworth drew "an assurance that man's high instincts are then undimmed, that the mist between him and God is then 'a pure transparency...
...authors, "John Woodville," "The Tales from Shakespeare," and some other things-the re-establishment of the London Magazine gave him the opportunity for the most characteristic work of his life. Mr. Copeland spoke of the time passed in the Temple, the insanity of Mary Lamb, the childhood holidays at Blakesware, and the friendship with Coleridge and one or two other men, as among the determining influences of Lamb's career...
...Summer of my Childhood," F. L. Waldo...