Word: mortal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...down fall drops of mortal agony...
...call thou for help from no mortal...
...that, Narcissus-like, can fall so deeply in love with his own likeness as to be wasted away by the passion; but we all find a certain pleasure in gazing upon ourselves in miniature, and we all, sooner or later, seek to gratify our wish. To the ordinary mortal there is very little choice between the photographer's chair and the dentist's, and the truth of this fact is stamped upon nine out of ten photographs, the sitters for which were all horribly conscious that they were "being taken." The expression varies. Some have evidently tried to follow...
Were seen by no mortal, I ween...
...life guided us so well and taught us so many never-to-be-forgotten lessons in true wisdom, it would be unmanly and ungenerous to turn, as our critic does, and upbraid him for those weaknesses to which all mortal flesh is subject. Such ingratitude is unfilial, inhuman. Charles Sumner used to regretfully say, "The age of chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might well have added, "The age of humanity, of courtesy, of urbanity, is gone." One of the worst and most common...