Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...good illustration of what I mean. In life, as in a meanly-appointed theatre, the parts are doubled and the same actor who stalked as the majesty of buried Denmark, may appear as a clown after a change of scenes. The lover, the poet, the mourner, the mystic, after their fine frenzies feel that there is something ludicrous in dining, and to confess a fondness for lobster or a sorrow that oysters are out of season seems a satire on their hardly cold ideal longings and regrets...
...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 has far less of the picture-like sense than Tennyson. Whatever of these gifts these poets...
...rest of the Monthly suffers somewhat from being too entirely devoted to literary subjects. Four of the five articles treat of the writings of different authors in their various phases. "A New England Mystic," by Carleton E. Noyes, gives some comment on the character of Jones Very, but largely as it showed itself through his poetry. "The Elizabethan and the Greek,- a Study in Lyric Poetry," by E. K. Rand, is, as its name implies, a comparison of the lyrics of the Greeks with those of the poets of England at the time of that nation's greatest prosperity. Following...
Civil engineers-G. A. Berry, Norwalk, Conn.; C. B. Brown, New Haven, Conn.; J. M. Dickinson, Jr., Mansfield, O.; H. C. Hill, Mystic, Conn.; S. B. Patterson, Torrington, Conn.; G. W. Pike, Jr., Killingly, Conn.; S. M. Russell, Bedford, Pa.; C. R. Treat, Orange, Conn.; Elisha G. Trowbridge, New Haven, Conn.; James Walker, Jr., West Haven, Conn...
GEOLOGY IV. Mr. Griswold will conduct an excursion to the Mystic Quarries, Tuesday Nov. 1, leaving the Oxford St. steps of the Museum...