Word: jested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that the mad scenes now played had a comic aspect now ignored. Mr. Corbin's general point of view is that Shakespeare only wrote the drama for Elizabethan audiences. They, in their time, saw jest in what would seem to us only the severest tragedy. What he wishes to get at is the comedy in Hamlet according to the Elizabethan point of view. Charles Scribner's Sons will publish the book in this country...
...readily made out. The students, eager to find out wherein they have succeeded or failed in their work, must stop to analyze the handwriting before they can get at the opinion of the instructor. So far has this gone that there is more than usual humor in the popular jest that the English instructors should furnish another key with every criticism, with explanations of the various signs,-the regular theme card is not enough. Jesting aside, it does not put a man in an amiable or teachable frame of mind to be thus checked in his work by an apparently...
...From Jest to Earnest" is an absurdity after Stockton's style, though it lacks the plausibility with which that master of absurdities always clothes his impossible imaginations. A little elaboration here and there, especially of the passage that deals with the proposals, would not have been amiss...
...great a lawyer that his equal could not be found. Njal and Gunnar used in alternate years to entertain each other for friendship's sake. On such an occasion Hallgertha taunts Njal as being beardless, but Gunnar and Njal refuse to quarrel. Again Hallgertha makes a shameless jest on Njal, but the sturdy men remain true in their friendship...
...past ten centuries, yet it is always pleasant to see new political light shed upon the darkness of the subject. There is a touch of originality here and there, the principal simile is felicitious and the diction is the whole, good - although we doubt whether birds sing "songs of jest...