Word: pleasantest
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...fell into this scrape, and how he was helped out of that, and by what device the heroine is enabled to survive the agony she suffers or the crime she commits, - to all such persons the book will prove a tedious one; but those who enjoy philosophizing of the pleasantest and lightest sort, illumined at every step by some thought as striking and original as true, will find all this and much more, in Kenelm Chillingly...
SHAKESPEARE.POETS have sung the praises of sleep as the restorer of strength to man's wearied frame, probably agreeing with Socrates, that a dreamless night is the pleasantest, and hence neglecting to celebrate the pleasures of sleep as well. These are not to be found in blank oblivion, nor in the incongruous, unreal, and half-recollected shadows of the hours of darkness, but in the hours of early morning. Then, like the light of the dawn going before the full radiance of the sun, the self-consciousness of each human mind precedes the full resumption of the sceptre over...
...Taylor, were beyond praise in their admirable fitness and truth of sentiment, and the warmth of appreciation which greeted them was more than deserved. The Vice-President, Mr. A. S. Thayer, then introduced the Poet, Mr. L. W. Clark, whose poem, conceived and executed in the pleasantest manner possible, put the assembly into such good-humor that they attempted with great success the singing of one of the odes to the tune of "Fair Harvard." Toasts were then proposed and drunk with all the honors, to the various college and class interests, to which the responses were, without exception...
...exclaimed, "Ah, Jack, is that you?" I answered in no very pleasant tone that as near as I could recollect it was. He asked, "Which side of the bed do you prefer?" I told him the outside, and slept on my lounge. My dreams were none of the pleasantest. The next morning I inquired of him whether he was well read up on bores. He answered that he was, and said "They were very dangerous animals when forced to fight." I at once voted him a fool, and determined to get rid of him. In the course...