Word: humors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reader (to him especially who aims at becoming a "full man," as Bacon puts it,) to find here and there the very brilliant remarks of a very bril-dull man; comments on the author's style, questions and expressed doubts on certain passages, very wonderful and skilful corrections, humorous passages explained, jokes and puns clarified, and bits of quite original humor-of the very best sort, of course. Indeed, it is to be regretted that more men do not practice this note-making. When men read, they should put down their thoughts, not on a blank sheet of paper...
...feet on the fender, that I found out my corporeal insufficiency. As I say, I was perfectly contented. Although I knew that if I should in any way get nearer the fire, I should probably be drawn by the draught up the chimney, I was more struck with the humor of the situation than with its terrors...
...entry of Thayer who rushed out of their rooms at half past eleven o'clock last Friday night with the thought that a tragedy was occurring in the entry, were disappointed. They found only the remains of a large common cracker which some gentleman with a keen sense of humor had exploded on the third landing...
...other side of the water are not brought up in the lap of luxury, and cannot boast of so unique a structure interiorally and exteriorly as Memorial Hall. The walks and bridges over the Cam were beautiful photographs, and called forth the applause they richly deserved. The facetious humor of Mr. Huntington increased largely the amusement of those present, and was a great addition to the necessarily monotonous description of the eighteen colleges of Cambridge...
...restoration ; he will bring it back, or he cannot just lay his hand upon it, or some one has borrowed it without leave and it will be sure to come back, and then you shall have it all right. All which things are tests of patience and good humor...