Word: wildness
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...lone isle; where in wild grandeur rise
With soaring wing, seeks its wild eyrie on high...
...wild-flowers sent their perfume o'er the isle...
Overture, Don Giovanni. Vintage Song, Mendelssohn. Voyage, Mendelssohn. Titt'l's Serenade. Chorus of Priests, from the Magic Flute. On the Rhine waltzes, Keler Bela. Sleep, thou Wild Rose, Abt, Turkish March (probably), Mendelssohn; and solos for piano, flute, and violoncello...
...kind of wit which is dependent upon the use of big and high-sounding words in inappropriate connections. It is a melancholy fact that this school, if we may call it such, has found its chief supporters at Harvard. In marked contrast to it, is the school of the wild, the metaphysical, the intensely poetical poets, who commune with their shape-teeming grates, and draw deep thoughts from their beer-mugs. The poets of this school are carefully excluded - in their wild moods - from the papers of the Eastern colleges; but in the free and unbounded West they flourish like...