Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wrote "Every Man in his Humor" which was directly in opposition to all the romantic teaching. Here as in others of his plays, he takes up the humors of the times, as he calls them and satirizes them most vehemently. This continued till he had almost everybody against him. In King James' reign he brought out three well-known comedies, namely "Volpone," "The Silent Woman" and "The Alchemist." In 1613 Jonson went to France to tutor the son of Walter Raleigh, and after returning to England wrote his comedy "The Devil is an Ass," which was directed very strongly against...
...used by Chancer. Barbour was a man of varied culture, a master of pathos and a true poet. His work is full of dignity and some of his characters show that his own nature must have been that of a gentleman. There is in his work no trace of humor; his mind seemed to turn instinctively to sterner things and be delighted in the praise of valor and manhood...
...poems of the Celts are chiefly cynical. They have never made a success in war or politics, and naturally their poems would not be didactic or ethical. They have no humor about their poems, but in all these there is a one of sadness always prevalent and generally distinct. As the great nation was pushed back from its vast empire, and again and again suffered defeat, their spirit was not broken, but their despondence is everywhere to be seen...
Towards the end, Mr. Stillman writes: "The handwriting begins to show age, - it is tro+++mutous, and the letters are writ large. Death only could extinguish the kindly thought, the fine sense of humor, the affectionate fidelity to the past and its ties; nothing had changed in him to the last. When last I saw him .... I could imagine that, he labored under his dispensations as a good ship in a storm. burying his head at times under a wave, but rising to it, shaking off the weight, and keeping...
...experience. "Alone on Chocarna at Night." Edward Everett Hale continues his pictures of a "New England Boyhood;" Marion Crawford concludes "Don Orsino" and Mr. W. H. Bishop has another of his papers on "An American at Home in Europe." Miss Agnes Repplier has an attractive article on "Wit and Humor", filled with bright and clever little touches...