Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chairman looked disappointed as the honorable senator sat down; and so, somewhat dejectedly, he called upon Mr. Algernon Charles Sw-nburne as an antidote, who immediately read the following beautiful poem...
...Christianity of Ph-ll-ps Br-ks was merely gently stimulated by the chilly atmosphere. Mr. J-mes T. F-lds had quite forgotten to follow T-nnys-n about and ask, "How do you feel now?" but stood shivering over a melancholy register, - not that of M-ses. Algernon Charles Sw-nb-rne and G-rge Fr-ncis Tr-in chatted merrily away, kept warm, perhaps, by their own heated imaginations. The President of a certain famous institution of learning sat by himself in one corner of the building, in order that the rest of the assembly might attempt...
...Algernon Charles was opposed to this. He had been conferring with George Francis T. and with Miss Julia A. Moore, the "sweet singer of Michigan," and they were as one man against it. "The factitious fragile flower of a fruitful fancy blossoming in deep divine imaginings, unseen and for evermore beautiful, should not be choked out by the preposterous polyhedral polytechnic and pyrotechnic perorations and preparatory ponderosity of addle-pated patriarchs...
Doctor M-ner immediately arose, and, after quoting the beautiful lines, "Peter Parley pickt a peck of pickled peppers," &c., said that if Algernon were given to the use of spirituous drinks he (M-ner) should withdraw from the Club. As no one made any objections to this, the reverend doctor did not withdraw...
...Miller. Mr. Rottessi intimated that he was another, and that - Here Mr. Rustin interfered, saying that Art was Art, and the Poets were Fools. At this insult, a hundred tottering forms indignantly arose, and the constitution was forgotten in a windy war of words, in the midst of which Algernon Charles could be heard screaming...