Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...jest questhin the boss when he comes 'long. But gosh! look at that picter of a hoss up there: he's a fine-looking critter, ain't he? Speaking of hosses, you know that old un I had last year: he was a good puller, but unsound from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. He was spavined and hed the heaves, but I'll be blamed if I did n't sell him for a clean hunded and a watch ter boot to a city fellah who thought he was powerful cute...
...discussed, and reports of the proceedings are forwarded to the members. Thus, by joining the Society, one obtains the larger part of all that is best and freshest in the line of Shakspere study. It is very well to praise the slashing criticism which is so popular and so unsound; to magnify the merits of a certain Boston University critic, whose ignorance is only equalled by his audacity; to depreciate men who, like Dr. Furness, can really add something of value to Shaksperian literature; but we believe that those admirers and those critics will, in the end, be bitterly disappointed...