Word: uncouth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...knows how many years, and he is always as interested in Harvard's success as the youngest and most enthusiastic undergraduate. When the fathers of those who are now in College were undergraduates, Old John was a familiar sight on Holmes field, with his shambling walk and uncouth salutations. The boldest would scarcely venture to guess at the age of this remarkable fruit seller. He is the same today as he was twenty years...
...Another uncouth monster is represented by a cast of the so-called Pareiasaurus, from the only specimen ever discovered, and now preserved in the British Museum...
...added to the list of his acquaintance. But one of the less known anecdotes of Johnson makes clear what, in spite of success and reputation and the pleasure of being dictator-or, to use Smollett's word, the great Cham of literature-remained a pervading quality of his great, uncouth, impeded man of genius. He asked an old beggar woman, who accosted him once in the street, who she was, and her reply that she was an old struggler gave the doctor keen delight. Johnson, too, so he rejoined, was an old struggler, and bestowed upon the beggar woman...
...inspiration of Phedre, as with the Greek and Latin plays of old, came from the church. The play of Euripides, as we feel the giant force of the ringing sentences, while it holds us entranced, yet makes us shudder with horror at the uncouth roughness of the plot. The characters are in the main the same, the only marked difference being in the relative importance given to Phedre and Hyppolites; in the Greek, the play centres about the man, our only feeling towards Phedre being of the utmost contempt, such only as we might feel for the lowest of human...
Carlyle was essentially a man of feeling and he was one of the greatest poets of the age. He was a poet in conception and an artist in expression. His literary style was a creation of his very own, rugged, disjointed, uncouth even, but bringing out excellently the thoughts which possessed...