Word: blissful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...COMMUNICATION, which, unfortunately, we have no room to print in full, calls attention to the arctic temperature of our recitation-rooms on Monday mornings, disagreeable alike to the tutor and the pupils, and making our early recitations a severe penance after our enjoyment of domestic bliss the day before. It is well known that cold sharpens the temper and blunts the intellect, and we agree with the writer in thinking it would be well to have fires lighted in the furnaces Sunday afternoons, - unless, indeed, our janitors are deterred by religious scruples...
...happiest of vowels? Because it is always in the midst of bliss, while E is in hell, and the rest in purgatory...
...time when they were blue-coat boys, and of their savage old teacher, Mr. Bowyer, who has been immortalized by a bon-mot of Coleridge's when he heard of his fatal illness: "Poor J. B., may all his faults be forgiven, and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub-boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities...
...those there enjoy unmeasured bliss...
Give me such a wealth of bliss...