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...Chess Club is fairly formed, the societies which exist among us would appear at first sight to offer opportunities for the cultivation of any imaginable taste. The athlete has admirable facilities for developing ad infinitum his rowing, batting, or kicking powers; the linguist can revel in the Cercle Francais and the Der Verein; the Natural History Society promotes the interest of science; while the S. Paul's and the Christian Brethren offer spiritual comfort to gentlemen of a serious turn. Social, literary, and artistic organizations are not wanting; but there is a lack, - for there is no body...
...audience had some difficulty in finding out why Moses was like a bull-rusher. The dancing was a striking success, and the little farce was perhaps as good as anything. A little more practice and a little more attention to their singing would make a marked improvement. Among the audience we noticed the head waiters, Mr. Farmer, Mr. Worcester, and other local celebrities...
...they know its truth who have observed the woful ignorance which prevails in a Greek class as to the connection of any particular passage with what has gone before, and as to the action, purposes, and peculiarities of the whole work it is reading; and this, too, often among those who are diligent scholars...
...great author's works where he has clearly gone wrong in grammar; let him show why it is that Herr Klopstock is silly and ignorant for supposing that line 1293 should read n uov, and that Herr Bumfritz, who makes the emendation n uot, is wise and goodly among men. Let all this be done, and it will be odd enough if he shall not forget that Plato and Euripides were real men, who wrote for real men, and that they are indeed
...where "years" are beautifully imagined to be lying between "death" and "tears." We fail to see the connection of death and tears with Greece and Rome, or why a man should search so eagerly for years at all. The next couplet is intended to show the high tone prevalent among the writer's acquaintances, but it can only happen in Montreal that joy is a regular "befaller" in woe and care. The denouement is certainly very sad; but it is at once seen that "he" would prefer even a gin-cocktail to "sobbing" with the author of this truly touching...