Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that they cannot be readily made out. The students, eager to find out wherein they have succeeded or failed in their work, must stop to analyze the handwriting before they can get at the opinion of the instructor. So far has this gone that there is more than usual humor in the popular jest that the English instructors should furnish another key with every criticism, with explanations of the various signs,-the regular theme card is not enough. Jesting aside, it does not put a man in an amiable or teachable frame of mind to be thus checked...
...brought out his first poems, and in the company of Coleridge much of his earlier poetry was written. His poetry was essentially the product of English soil, it showed the resolute, energetic spirit of the author, and his pure, simple life. However much his poetry lacked in sense of humor or proportion, it shows the most sympathetic interpretation of nature and the sublimest imagination. His ambition was to be a teacher, and that he has certainly succeeded in being. Not only is his position assigned high in the roll of English fame, but he has become the teacher of teachers...
...publication of his book on the Confessions of an English Opium Eater was a startling revelation to the literary people of the world. He lived by his pen for fifty years and when his magazine articles were collected they filled fifty volumes. All these articles are characterized by individuality, humor, imagination and the evident results of a thorough study of the classics. He had an exact and penetrating intellect and peered into the most hidden things. There is a vein through all his writings which gives evidence of an extensive reading knowledge and high culture. His humor, pathos and marvelous...
...last number of the Advocate is up to the usual standard except in its editorials. The editorials are not elegant in style, good in sentiment and matter or forcible in diction. Moreover, humor is born not made in a writer and the efforts here to be humorous injure the high tone that the Advocate editorials have hitherto had. In several instances there is evidence of lack of grasp of the subject, a flippancy of tone that is unbecoming and a general character foreign to good advocate editorials. It were best for the writers to recognize that the fault they find...
...Sketches" - One recognizes the author from the individuality of the style - the first is the better. It is written in a happy easy style and the touches of humor and hints of character make it real and interesting. The second sketch is overdrawn and not worth printing or writing...