Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Hence it is the part of a wise person to make his working conduct as like to his sleep as possible. Therefore, beware of every extreme. Avoid laughing, that you may not weep, - mirth, lest you become sad, - anger, that it may not return into your own heart, - joy, lest you find too soon that it stays not on the earth, - the excitement of wine, of music, or of company, for he who drinks of that cup shall find the dregs bitter. In all things seek regularity, for it is the surest destroyer of thought, and all thought leads...
...announcement of his sudden death is sad indeed. His kindly disposition, joined to the superior qualities of mind which he possessed, won for him a large circle of friends among us. Our feelings of sorrow are specially called out when we remember the troubles of life through which he passed, which left a shade of melancholy in his manner, and that his death was in a foreign country, far from his home and friends...
...worthy of his strong mind. He was more than six feet high, with broad shoulders, an exceedingly well-built frame, and a handsome bearded face. In more ways than one he resembled Thackeray's "George Warrington." Now, at the termination of this brief career, we can only repress the sad thoughts of "what might have been" by remembering with gratitude that so much has been left us, - that the future aspirants for literary distinction in this country will have before them for an example the life of JOHN RICHARD DENNETT...
...should search so eagerly for years at all. The next couplet is intended to show the high tone prevalent among the writer's acquaintances, but it can only happen in Montreal that joy is a regular "befaller" in woe and care. The denouement is certainly very sad; but it is at once seen that "he" would prefer even a gin-cocktail to "sobbing" with the author of this truly touching poem...
...sad is your destiny, bells of Bilbao...