Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1919 — Emotion Precipitated In Crystals by Fancy [ARTICLE]

Emotion Precipitated In Crystals by Fancy

I would not be supposed to overlook the distinction, too often lost soffit of, between sentimentalism and sentiment, the latter being a very excellent thing in its way, as genuine things are apt to be. Sentiment is irtellectuaL ized emotion, emotion precipitated, asr it were, in crystals by the fancy. This Is the delightful staple of the poets of social life like Horace and Beranger, or Thackeray, when he too rarely played with verst. —Lowell. •