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...Browning stand at opposite poles. Tennyson represents the spirit of science and law, while Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth has or the Pagan gift of union with it that Shelley has. Nor in them shall we find the mystic imagination of Coleridge. And neither of them sees things in the picture-like sense that Keats does. Almost all of these gifts are found however in a less degree in both these poets. Browning...
...style everywhere, faults though it may in some place be, we should not have had the beauty of expression, unsurpassable for effectiveness and charm, which is reached in Shakespeare's best passages. The turn for style is perceptible all through English poetry, proving, to my mind, the genuine poetical gift of the race; this turn imparts to our poetry a stamp of high distinction, and sometimes it doubles the force of a poet not by nature of the very highest order, such as Gray, and raises him to a rank beyond what his natural richness and power seem to promise...
...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...
During the past year Yale has received by gift $291, 595 and by bequest $154,000, besides Vanderbilt Hall, on which over $850,000 has already been expended...
...enters into the life of each one whom he or she meets. We are more apt to notice this trait in the child with its subtle charm and winsome ways, "the gracious boy who doth adorn the world into which he is born." Grace is the fairest, the rarest gift of life. We are often content if we are told that we are doing our duty but what would a home be when all did their duty and nothing more, it would be decorus, severe and just, but there would be no grace or graciousness. In the life of each...