Word: parsons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...French, would be as likely as anything he wrote to be colored by that language, we shall find that the proportion of French words in it, though much greater than in Piers Ploughman, is relatively very small. But if we take a piece of Chaucer's prose-from the Parson's Tale, for example,- we are astonished to find how modern...
...Matthews. It is a comparison and a criticism of these three great novelists, each of whom has written masterpieces which are as widely separated as it is possible for novels to be. Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, is the father of story tellers "when we see Fielding's Parson Adams, or Scott's Antiquary, we see children of Don Quixote." The most charming thing in Cervantes' writings is that he loves all his characters, - "Cervantes is not severe with the children of his brain; he loves them all - there is no one whom he despises or insults." Zola...
...Three Cooks at the Broth, or the Parson's Trousers" is a versified tale written in the metre of the ordinary dinner-poem. It deals with the trials and tribulations of one "Parson Wetley" and has a humorous climax...
...Herrick describes a shifless, hopeless family, in his article entitled "Squalor." The picture is vividly drawn, and Mrs. Calkins and the parson stand out as if they were real persons...