Word: famed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...early life, St. Francis was very fond of dress and pleasure, but he was ever generous, kind to the poor and pure, and in these traits can be seen the ruling characteristics of his after life. He had some ambition for military fame, but on becoming ill after one campaign in which he took part, a more serious conception of life took possession of him. Soon after, when he was on the way to join in another war, a voice from heaven seemed to call upon him to renounce his present mode of life and devote himself to the service...
...never be given so again. All these, however, were qualities of the exterior. He would not have been the actor he was if he had not been able to get at the very soul of the character he was representing; and it was this wonderful ability which won his fame...
...Will the fame of J. R. Lowell rest ultimately more on his poetry than on his criticism...
...much his poetry lacked in sense of humor or proportion, it shows the most sympathetic interpretation of nature and the sublimest imagination. His ambition was to be a teacher, and that he has certainly succeeded in being. Not only is his position assigned high in the roll of English fame, but he has become the teacher of teachers, and no one more than he can open to all minds the beauties of the poetic ideals...
...exact and penetrating intellect and peered into the most hidden things. There is a vein through all his writings which gives evidence of an extensive reading knowledge and high culture. His humor, pathos and marvelous power of description made him a popular writer and secured for him the fame which returns from an extensive and wide-spread circulation of his works...