" "The English women are thought to be less excitable, and not so much under the influence of sentimentalism, as some of their continental neighbours.

Some contemporary clap-trap about sentimentalism will perhaps decry and ridicule the demand for an apotheosis of it.

Webster's Dictionary, which cannot be accused of any leaning toward sentimentalism, defines "inhumanity" as "cruelty in action;" and "cruelty" as "an act of a human being which inflicts unnecessary pain."

He was delivering a very eloquent harangue, interspersed with touches of pro-slavery, sentimentalism and rhetorical flourish, the former especially directed to the negroes in the gallery, when, suddenly, a cry of "Fire! fire!"

General Characteristics.-Meredith's novels afford him various opportunities for an exposition of his views on education, divorce, personal liberty, conventional narrow-mindedness, egotism, sentimentalism, and obedience to law.

The Roman comprehended neither the grace and kindliness, nor the sentimentalism and the whitened emptiness of the domestic life of the Hellenes.

But the daughter of Jeanne Dubois was not to be wooed by any vague sentimentalisms.

" The last mysterious sentence is one of many scattered through, the Diary, which, aided by dashes and omission-marks by the editorial son, point to certain sentimentalisms in which Crabbe was still indulging, even in the vortex of fashionable gaieties.

This is no time for sentimentalisms about the empty chair at the national hearth; all the chairs would be empty soon enough, if one of the children is to amuse itself with setting the house on fire, whenever it can find a match.

One has to learn to bear sentimentalism.

Sentimentalism spread a rosy veil over the ugliness, draping it decently.

Both poets are salutary in the strong and biting antidote they bring to sentimentalism in thought and melodious facility in writing.

He disliked and distrusted "metaphysical theories," when they left the field of speculation for that of practice, had no patience with "natural rights" (which as an Irishman he conceived as the product of sentimentalism) and applied what would nowadays be called a "pragmatic" test to political affairs.

The third of the three essays mentioned was a Jeremiad on the morbid self-consciousness of the age, which shows itself, in religion and philosophy, as skepticism and introspective metaphysics; and in literature, as sentimentalism, and "view-hunting.

Hosts of imitators sprung up among the fruitful fry of small authors, and flourished until Goethe himself, by his wit, his irony, and his eloquence, put an end to the sickly sentimentalism, which he had first called into action.

What was left to her had no outlet; pent up in her, it bred weak, anaemic substitutes for its natural issue, sentimentalism for passion, and sensibility for the nerves of vision.

And where passion is, sentimentalism is not.

Religious trends in English poetry. Vol.2: 1740-1780, religious sentimentalism in the age of Johnson.

Religious trends in English poetry. Vol.2: 1740-1780, religious sentimentalism in the age of Johnson.

Sentimentalism had no place in her nature, her reading or literary work.

A soul full of healthy and noble sentiment left no room for sentimentalism.

The skies above us are dark with sentimentalism, the sand beneath us is shoaling fast, we are running with streaming canvas upon ruin; all ideals have gone; nothing remains to us for worship but the Mass, the blind, inchoate, insatiate Mass; fog and fen land before us, we shall founder in putrefying mud, creatures of the ooze and rushes about uswe, the great ship that has floated up from the antique world.

"There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism.

It was under these hard conditions that Cass Beard, convicted of overt sentimentalism, aggravated by inconsistency, stepped into the Red Chief coach that evening.

The tailor ran over with sentimentalism in the words "Sadly by the rose-beds now I weep, Where the late moon found us oft alone!