Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Lafayette Monthly.Pretty as this little sonnet is, we question whether its author has, in the last line, expressed the real feeling that comes over one in this autumn weather. It seems as if it were not simple enjoyment of existence, so much as a "dreamy" sadness, that can hardly be called such, it is so pleasing. Even the clear north-wind, bracing as it is, reminds one of the passing of the year, as it blows the red leaves to the ground, and makes one regret the departure of flowers and birds, while it bids us enjoy still more...
...those there enjoy unmeasured bliss...
...hero fell into this scrape, and how he was helped out of that, and by what device the heroine is enabled to survive the agony she suffers or the crime she commits, - to all such persons the book will prove a tedious one; but those who enjoy philosophizing of the pleasantest and lightest sort, illumined at every step by some thought as striking and original as true, will find all this and much more, in Kenelm Chillingly...
...asserting that "of the six hundred undergraduates in Harvard College, the proportion who enjoy good classical music is much smaller than it should be, "the writer enunciates a truth, though it can hardly be considered startling in originality. Where are we to find any number of persons, in any condition of culture, to whom the same remark would be inapplicable? Every one ought to enjoy classical music, and until, in the course of half a dozen centuries, mankind is educated up to the desired point, the paragraph quoted will still be in order...
...time, we are very seldom much amiss. Men sing with a will, and are pretty sure to come out correctly. And it must also be remembered that we do not sing so much in the interests of classic art as for amusement and recreation; both singers and audience enjoy it. If we cannot please Cambridgeport, too, we are sorry, but resigned...