Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...request. Mr. Bowen was greeted with long applause when he first appeared before the audience, and many parts of his lecture met with the same approval. The lecture deserved it, for, although on account of his audience, Mr. Bowen put his remarks in the shape of an informal talk, yet what he said was sufficient to show that he had the material for an interesting running commentary upon the stereopticon illustrations which form the main feature of the lecture...
...does not describe one of the important affairs, but it is so characteristically told that I quote the letter in part: "As I have given you fair warning," he says "don't be surprised if your grave, sedate, philosophic friend, who used to carry it so high, and talk with such a composed indifference of the beauteous sex, and whom you used to admonish not to turn an old man too soon-don't be thunderstruck if this same fellow should all at once, subito furore obreptus, commence Don Quixote for his adorable Dulcinea. I have reason to believe...
...worse. We renewed our fondness." Supporting somebody else's wife, however, was expensive-it looked "too much like licentiousness," Boswell complained, and growing tired of her, his conscience began to trouble him. "How strangely do we color our own vices." he writes in horror, "I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife, yet that was literally my scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond of a pretty, lively, black little lady, who, to oblige me, stayed in Edinburg, and I very genteelly paid her expenses," This horror of immorality lasted until he had freed himself...
...Monday morning. Take tickets for Friday's fly. Eat some cold victuals. Wednesday. Breakfast at 8; return at nine; Thomas will bring you to Adamtown a little after eleven. Send up your name. Give Miss Blair my letter. Salute her and her mother; ask to walk. Talk of my mare, the purse, the chocolate. Tell, you are my very old and intimate friend. Praise me for my good qualities,- you know them; but talk also how odd, how inconstant, how impetuous, how much accustomed to women of intrigue. Ask gravely, Pray don't you imagine there is something of madness...
...hasty manner. Students are very ready to take advantage of an instructor's tardiness, but think nothing of interrupting him in the midst of his lecture. An instructor would be justified, we think, in refusing to allow men to enter the lecture room after he had begun his talk. But allowance should be made for men who have courses which compel them to come from the Zoological Museum, as is the case with many sophomores who take Natural History 2 which comes the hour directly before the Rhetoric hour...