Word: readers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...exactly opposite manner to different persons. But however that may be, believe me, there is not one of your pet oddities that does not go a great way in the estimate that some one forms of your character. I have here an excellent opportunity for boring my reader with a disquisition on prejudices, and for giving him several awful warnings on the sin of hating a man because he wears a peculiar-shaped hat. Alas! I am afraid that in this respect the human race is incorrigible, so I will give the reader, instead of a tirade, some estimates...
...reader to go with me to several rooms and examine the book-cases that we shall find there. The first room that we enter presents us with a small hanging book-case which displays nothing but a dreary waste of text-books. Such a collection can belong to either of two men, and to which, the books before us belong, can easily be decided by a glance at the rest of the furniture. If the pictures are racing prints and ballet-dancers, if a string of champagne corks adorns the chandelier, and a rifle occupies a conspicuous place...
...fair exponent of old-time fanatical asceticism the curious reader is referred to an editorial which appeared not long ago in the New York Times, wherein is manifested a spirit which would do credit to Cotton Mather himself. The Faculty of Dartmouth might, of course, if it chose, prohibit its students from wearing plaid suits and high collars, electing Spanish, or eating Limburger cheese after sundown, and a sensible person would only smile and draw his own private conclusions as to the sanity of that august body; but when a respectable journal, making comments on Harvard and Yale, sets itself...
...make a careful study of the ordinary Irishman, the kind who builds fires for his living. The specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought...
...freckles, if only to show that she is but "an earthly paragon," and no angel. If the scene is to be laid on this earth, then even the heroine ought to be endowed with a few of our imperfections, for through them her character appeals most strongly to the reader. If he has not her good qualities, he at least wants to sympathize with her shortcomings. In novel-reading our pleasure is confined wholly to the finite. If any future author shall be pleased to lay the scene of his story in Jupiter or Neptune, we shall not experience...